After Beijing, Dunhuang, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Almaty, Bangkok… I am now in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia. Like in many other places I’ve ended up going to on this trip I would have never thought I would go there until a couple of weeks ago, until unplanned events occurred bringing twists and twicks and shmicks to my original itinerary: until my friend Faye told me to come by.

Master Monkey v.s Vicious Snake

So yesterday Faye, her brother Jeremy, his friend Alex and I went sightseeing at the Batu Caves, and there we witness some interesting wild life: tones of monkeys, snakes and roosters. But it became really interesting when a big snake decided to have for lunch a baby monkey left unattended.
The snake jumped incredibly fast on the baby and entangled it the way boas typically do (we all witnessed this right?). At that point I thought that there was no hope for the baby monkey.

But then all the monkeys started whistling and yelling at the snake and the dominant male decided to fight the snake!
After playing around for a couple of minutes the Master Monkey (MM) launched a decisive attack which destabilized the snake, which in turn fell down from a cliff. But while the snake was falling, MM continued to try to grasp the baby from the malicious snake and finally succeeded. Then MM bit the snake, forcing it to back up, away from the baby monkey.
And it worked!

Finally, two guys came and fought the snake and managed to take it away in a box. Indian snake masters…

Indian Fakirs taking care of the mess

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