A Day at the Zoo

 I originally had wanted to go to the Hyderabad zoo because one of my goals for India was to ride an elephant. Since we weren't going to be going to any other cities, I did a quick Google search to see what chances I would have of riding an elephant here and was directed to the website where it clearly states that elephant rides are available. After walking around the Nehru Zoological Park viewing almost all 380 acres of animal sanctuary, I realized that these elephant rides must either be hidden really well or not exist at all. We tried to ask at least 3 different park workers and they had a hard time understanding what we were asking, one redirected us to the safari, but said that they only have lions, tigers, and bears, no elephants. Another worker emphatically pointed me to the exit and so I kept repeating "elephant, EL-E-FA-N-T" and then he would look confused and try to push me towards the exit. Forcing your patrons to leave instead of answering their questions-- I guess that's one technique to deal with customers.

We did enjoy looking at the animals, although there are no pictures of them, only an hour's worth of footage where Daniel tried to capture them on film and mostly got low quality images of bushes/animals and lots of our puny dialogue about the animals and a lot of screaming school children in the background. We did have quite a few teenage boys come up and ask to take their pictures with us, apparently we were just as novel as the animals in the cages. Except we were a bit more interactive.

What a fun tree.

We love the zoo!

Hanging out by the trees with weird lighting.
That's not water on my shirt, just shadows.

Daniel loves bears. His new favorite animal.
 Except, he has always liked bears.

Turns out we were a bigger attraction than the animals.

Yeah, this happened a lot.

My dream come true, someone came up and just
 handed me their child. They took him back though.

Good placement for one of these.

It's a trap. It looks neat, but it's just dark and smelly.

Super accurate signs around the place.

I wanted to buy them all.

Sugar cane juice, a new favorite.