After arriving on Sunday and after some lunch we drove out to the site of an ancient temple and fort called Nandi Hills. Its a pretty popular tourist site for locals. Here is the Wikipedia entry on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi_Hills%2C_India
It's really a magnificent site on one side of the hill its a sheer drop off and all rock. We walked through the temple were a Hindu priest would perfom a cerimony for you. We had no idea what he was doing and some of us thought that he might curse us rather than blessing us so we kept our distance.
The drive out to Nandi takes about 1 hour so by the time we headed back we were all nodding off.
To get us around Bijoy hired a car and driver. The driver was quite efficient and couragious and certainly knew his way around. I would easily say that he is the equal to any New York cabbie I've ever driven with. He was not afraid to take on any truck or bus and figure out how to fit the vehicle into the smallest gap possible.
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