As well as selling monkey food to tourists (a practice where all involved benefit - the children make money, the monkeys get fed and the tourists enjoy feeding the animals), local children will also pose for photographs for a rupee or two. The only problem is that they photographs look very posed and unnatural.
Written May 30, 2005
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