More about our Chamundi Hill visit

Our trip to Chamundi Hill was really nice so I think it deserves a little more description. I went with 5 other guys from the US batch. We took the bus up the hill to the temple and walked around it at first. We already saw it from the outside from the first time they took us our first full day in India. We wanted to go inside but the line was huge. Then we found out you can pay 100 rupees and get into the mandir without waiting in line. It's kind of a weird concept for a temple but that's what we did. We had to take our shoes off a little bit outside of the temple, so we had to cross the street barefoot. It was kinda crazy, they let us in the main prayer area for literally five seconds before they pull you to the side out of the line. Then you continue to the back of the temple where they have another murti (statue of the goddess). I did some praying there and then we continued outside. We got our shoes back on and started walking down the hill.

The walk down was great, you could see all of Mysore from up there. There were other younger people walking down too. Friends go to go the temples on the weekends to pray and just to have a good time with their friends here. So on our way down there were other people our age just running down laughing and having a good 'ol time. People kept laughing at one of the guys with us, Sloan. He's really white so I guess he stuck out more than everyone else. He was a good sport about it, he laughed along with them. On the way down there was a group of kids our age resting. They saw us and just started saying hello and stuff. I think one of the guys said the girl was trying to hit on me or that I was hitting on the girl (even though I wasn't saying anything). I dunno, we laughed it off and kept walking.

There were also monkeys all over the stairs on the way down. They're cute to look at but they're a little vicious too. I wouldn't get too close to them.

We finally made it all the way down and took a rickshaw back to campus. I was beat after the climb down the stairs so I took a nice nap afterwards. I like going out and having a good time like that without having to spend too much money. I actually prefer doing things like that than going out at night to a club or something. I can go to clubs and in the U.S. too, I can't climb a hill with a thousand stairs to go to a temple in the U.S. though.

All in all it was a great trip, I want to do things like that more often so I'll try and plan something with the other guys that are interested in things like that as well.