Matheran 2017

Monkey mania - I had a very funny but memorable experience with the "gunda" monkeys (besides them snaching away our food and clothes hanging in our rooms - that's considered as normal there)!!
Our rooms had beautiful balconies with breakfast table facing the common ground with slider glass doors which needed to be closed n locked always to avoid invasion of monkeys inside the rooms and messing the whole room making them look like there have been burglurs whov looted everything and left this room behind ! Once i was just looking for Paras n other guys from the balcony very carefully keeping the doors almost closed so the monkeys donnt feel invited. But no sooner than i stepped out, i was spotted !!
Immiately a monkey jumped in right in front of me ! Staring and screaming at me ! Offcourse i got scared ! But remembered the hotel staff's advise to shoo them off with scary shouts and act throwing something on them.. ! In a rush to get inside without letting it get in behind me, i ended up locking the door instead of opening it !
Goshh !!! Goofed it up compeletely. Now i was locked in my own balcony with this hulligan monkey ! It was super active, fearless and all charged up ! I had nothing but my sling bag with my valuables in it and in an instinctive stimulus, i shouted loud and tried to scare them off with my bag... But it got more interested in the bag instead !! Soon it called its friend too which came instantly n then they tried to grab it from me.. ohh now its two vs one ! N dont know how many more can surround me from the tree just opposite the balcony.
i kept shouting and saving my bag and they were looking at it hungryly and jumping like ready to pounce. I told them therz nothing in it to eat !! But they didnt seem to trust me :(
Finally realising that my shouts of "hatttt.. and hurrrr..." and threats with bag is having no impact at all, i piked up the only other prop left in the balcony - "the chair" to shoo them off ! Shouting out to Paras frantically ! Paras who was down there somewhere in the common ground with Dhaval n ina didnt take my shouts seriously and replied "im not coming :-P ! " n on my begging to pls come he finally came n saw me .. he asked for the room keys n i told him im locked N hel have to take spare key from the hotel.. just do something i said..
hahhh the monkeys fled by the chair threat and before they came back to war with me with a bigger battalion, paras managed to open the room n free me..... !!! Everyone down who saw n heard me had a blast laughing !! 😁 N paras had just one word to tell me - 😗 Popat ! 😆Read more