Shimla

This weekend, our group headed up to Shimla, a mountain town in the Himalayas. Shimla used to be the summer capital for British viceroy, and later Indian presidents. The partition between India and Pakistan was made in what was the capital building at the time. The building has since been turned into the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Basically, it is a place in which fellows conduct post doctoral research. We took a tour there, as the fog rolled in. Because it is monsoon season, the majority of our weekend consisted of fog and/or rain. We were practically living in a cloud.

Some of us also decided to venture up to Jakhoo temple, more commonly known as the monkey temple. It was quite the uphill trek, but the temple was pretty great. We got a blessing, and just spent some time up the mountain. The monkeys are pretty scary, so we avoided them. Because they will bite and steal things. We had monkey defending sticks, which were used only to make startling movement directed at said scary monkeys.

I was anticipating this post to be a step up from the last, but that did not happen. I will keep putting in effort to increase the quality of my posts. Sorry team. In order to improve your reading experience I have attached pictures/video of monkeys.