After the hills and stones of Udaipur and around it felt like a dream come true to have sand and plains. In such areas the distance between villages is greater, due to a lack of water much of the land is barren and open and so it's great for riding. Often I would ride in the plains near the road, keeping the black tar in my line of vision as a navigation tool but avoiding riding on it as much as possible. Which Chandra appreciated one day when we encountered a herd of a couple hundred cattle walking down the road to a government cow shelter. He stood stock still, raised his head and make the most bizarre snorting noise. It was part aggressive, part terrified and he wouldn't move an inch until they were all quite far away. I find this funny as all horses are supposed to have an inbuilt fear of the smell of pigs, some sort of evolutionary survival tactic that saved them in the days when wild boars were a threat to them. Not my Chandra though, he will happily walk inches past several pigs running about and snorting but the second he sees a cow or buffalo he is petrified.
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