Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Holi Hill Stations!

Instead of being in Noida for the Holi Festival this year, we went to Nainital and to the Jim Corbett National Park. In Nainital (a hill station) we rode on a cable car (called a "rope-car") up to an amusement park.
We could see the pretty lake below and the mountains all around us. There were lots of rides at the park.
Our favorites were the bumper cars and the Go Carts.
This was Evan's first time driving a Go cart. There was also a zip line, but we didn't do that. Evan drove the go cart with his grandma and rode in a bumper car with Mom. He wiped out a few times! They were going very fast.
We drove to Jim Corbett Park on Monday. That was the day of Holi Festival. Holi is the Hindu spring festival of colours. It was about two hours drive to our hotel near the park.
Our driver was worried about his car because it was white and there were lots of people throwing colors and "playing holi" in each of the villages on the way.
When we got to our hotel (Tiger Camp) we had snacks of samosas and namkeen. Then we walked to the river. We saw there were two elephants taking a bath. (We saw these same elephants bathing back in November).
We got changed to go swimming, but the pool was not very clean so we ate popcorn instead. We ended the day with an elephant safari.
We walked to our elephants and had to climb up tall stairs to get on. The elephant walked across the river and into the forest! We didn't see tigers, but we saw deer and monkeys and langurs. We had a great safari! It was a good way to spend our Holi Weekend! 

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