Since we locked down in March, the family has been beyond the comfortable confines of our apartment and school grounds for a grand total of 4 hours (our trip to Qutub Minar). But we masked up and packed up for a 5 day trip to Rishikesh for the Thanksgiving long weekend.
Day 1 was spent sitting on the balcony enjoying the views of the Veda5 Ayurveda & Yoga Retreat, a wonderful hotel with fantastic service, great food, comfortable rooms, and Gray Langur and Rhesus Macaques scampering through the trees and over our rooftops.
I watched from our balcony as the langurs awoke at 6:21 AM. They dropped from their sleepy-time tree onto a red, tin roof to groom each other. The rest of the langurs eventually dropped down (langurs means 'having a long tail'), thundered across the rooftops and settled in some trees for breakfast.
The macaques appeared on the hotel grounds after that. At one point, a langur walked through a group of macaques forcing them to run away. The langur had no interested in them but the macaques were not hanging around. The macaques scattered into the trees with cries of distress. We had heard that macaques were afraid of langurs and these macaques most definitely were.
The pink faced Rhesus macaques are the same that we see often in. Delhi. The grey fur, black faced langur monkeys are 50-75cm long and around 18kg. Their tails are 69-100 cm long!
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The langurs left for the dense forest but started to return around 4:00 PM, their arrival announced by their crashing on the tin roofs. The langurs hung out on balconies and tried to open our friend's hotel room door with no success.
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