Monkey Magic.

We've made it Lopburi, a day later than planned. We got up too late yesterday, after check-out. You had to pay a full days rent, so we decided to stay in Ayuatta another day.

Anyway, we are here now. Staying in the Indra Guest House (160 bhat a night), just across from were all the monkeys hang-out. In fact they seem to hang-out around our building quite a lot. Looking in at us through the bedroom window. We are the ones caged in, while they crawl all over the outside of the building. All good fun.

We spent the afternoon looking around Lopburi, checking out some of the ancient sites, but mainly hanging with the little hairy dudes. They are so tame, and totally unphased by humans. One even ducked under Sam's legs while she was sat on the wall. We got lots of photo's of them, climbing, eating, fighting, etc! For me, this has been such fun being so close to wild animals. There are supposed to be about 300 or so of them living in the city. All 300 it seems, within a few feet of our room.

The balcony of our room is caged in to stop them getting in, but we getting a great view of all their activities, as well as a cracking view across to the shrine sat in the middle of a huge round-about.

Tomorrow... Up early, and then a long haul up to Pi-Lok. We think it is about 6 maybe 8 hours on the train. Oh, well. Lots of reading and playing cards ahead of us then.