Rahil visited the Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary, a 29-square kilometer park serving as permanent or temporary home to 400 species of birds (not to mention numerous mammals and reptiles). Highlights included seeing all five species of herons, coming foot to face with a two-foot monitor lizard, seeing a variety of owls, and visiting a painted stork aviary. We stayed at a lovely hotel adjacent to the sanctuary called The Bagh ('The Garden'), where Rahil encountered, for the first time in his life, a live turkey. Not just one, but a whole flock. His alarm at hearing them gobble loudly is posted on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yx3WAon8tM

On Sunday we drove to nearby Fatehpur Sikri, a 16th century Moghul capital. (Mom, Jodhaa Akhbar was shot there.) Highlights there included discovering that Akhbar built a huge parcheesi board in one of the courtyards and used real people as pawns. Rahil went temporarily crazy chasing several chipmunks around a cemetery (YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vswvbzBOaiA). On the way home we stopped to eat at a place which happened to be offering camel rides, so Rahil got his first camel ride, too.