Sunday, May 27, 2007

Elephanta Island

On Sunday I went to Elephanta Island. It is charming little island in the Mumbai harbor with 9th century cave statues of Hindu gods.




The statues were very pretty, and carved by hand. Unfortunately, when the Portuguese were in India, they used the statues for firing practice and many are at least partially destroyed. Overall, the island and the statues were very beautiful, and it was a nice (but expensive) morning outing. Also, on the island I had my first run-in with monkeys. I saw a monkey steal a coke from a little girl and drink it. Awesome.

1 comment:

kshitij said...

Finally you did get to see some monkeys! gr8.