Gerda wants a tiger, a bear, oh deer! She wants to adopt the whole zoo, I want a baby elephant!

We went to Pune zoo today, well actually we thought we were going to the snake park but the rickshaw drivers dropped us at the zoo instead. We later found out that the snake park was within the zoo so we might go back another time as we had to leave for lunch. One of the park rules was that you are not allowed plastic inside the zoo, this includes crisp packets. I had brought a packet of tomato crisps for 5RS (about 7p!) and the later opened the bag and tipped them into a paper bag made of of newspaper that was sewn up! It was pretty strange! The zoo cost 10RS for Indians (about 13p) and 25RS for foreigners (about 32p!) So as you can see everything is pretty cheap, a half an hour rickshaw costs about GBP2 max and that is between two or three of us!

Every time we saw an animal, Gerda decided that she wanted one, be it a tiger, a bear or a deer! We even found one type of deer that apparently poos in one place so she thought that was good as it was toilet trained! Hehe. Anna (who will be her roommate) thought this was funny and I suggested that maybe Gerda should just live at the zoo!

We saw monkeys playing in the trees...
The was a lovely lake in the middle of the zoo, it was such a nice view.
Then we saw elephants, sorry there were no baby elephants that I could take home but they were elephants! They were so cute, especially these two who were playing together.

On the rickshaw on the way home, we saw an elephant being ridden along the road! This was the first time we had seen this, Anna was on the side of the rickshaw closest to the elephant so she took the photo. It is slightly smaller than the other pics as the rickshaw was moving quite fast and she accidentally got her finger in front of it, but we still got the elephant, so all is good. :)
Hope all is well with you,
xxx