More Hampi vacation pictures and story of the crazy monkey

So I got my hands on some more pictures from my vacation to Hampi that I thought were interesting enough to share. I also finally have pictures to accompany the story of our hilarious encounter with the crazy biting monkey!

Here's our Qualis breaking down in some tiny village:

Some more of the really intricate carvings at one of the temples we visited. I have so many pictures of cool shit like this. They're all awesome, but once you've seen one you've seen 'em all:

Sunflower plantation with mountains in the background:

A more accurate depiction of the roads we encountered for most of our trip:

Just a cool picture of a temple in Hampi with the landscape in the background:

I mentioned in my last entry about the Hampi vacation a bit about a hike that we took up to this temple on the top of a mountain. The climb was pretty excitining, here's a picture looking down at Winnie and Josh:

Once we were up there we hung around for awhile to enjoy the incredible view, here's a reminder (you can see our car on the road below):

We had all placed the bags we were carrying in one of the rooms in this temple while we climbed to the roof to enjoy the view. Matt put his bag on this ledge (Keep this in mind):

We found a family of monkeys that had climbed up the mountain to play with us. They were brave little monkeys and had no problem getting close to us for photo opps. Here's one of Matt and I with our favorite monkey (above Matt's shoulder):

The monkey scurried away and we went back to enjoying the view. A little while later the clouds were starting to gather and we decided it would be a good idea to get off the top of this mountain before the rains came in condsidering our trek down, so we collected our bags to head off the mountatin. We returned to where Matt had placed his bag, the one on the ledge, to find the monkey (the very one in the photo) had unzippedup Matt's bag and taken out MY wallet, as well as Matt's contact solution case. The monkey took one look at us and immediately knew he was in deep shit. We stared at eachother for a few moments before Mr. Monkey took Matt's glasses case out of the bag and backed away till he was on a higher ledge just out of our reach. Here's a picture of the monkey on the ledge with Matt's glasses:

While eyeing us down, he proceded to open the case, take out Matt's glasses, as well as a piece ofcleaning fabric, and investigated the items while Matt stood steaming at the thought of this monkey either stealing the glasses or dropping them off the ledge. The monkey eventually lost interest and dropped the glasses on the floor in front of him. Unfortunately, he took the time to grab the postcards Matt had purchased and toss them off the edge before he scampered down the mountain. He also bit through the contact solution and emptied it out.

All in all, a very hilarious situation. I'm just glad he threw Matt's postcards off the cliff rather than my wallet!

More updates to come.

Next: Pictures and stories from the crazy beer pong tournament we held at Adarsh that almost got us evicted from our housing. To hold you over till Monday, here is a picture of Petar the Macedonian Destroyer and I playing a game of Beruit. Keep in mind that I'm almost 6 ft. tall.