Snake Charmers – Jaipur

There I was, minding my business, walking from one attraction on the tour to another and I spy a couple of snake charmers working the crowd on the tourist trail. So what do I do? I take their picture. Immediately one of them sees me and jumps up. "Money, money, money!" he yells at me as he jumps up and heads my way. "How much?" I ask him, willing to pay him something, I mean, after all, it’s his job to be a tourist attraction. "100 rupees." he responds. I was going to give him half of what he asked when one of the Indian locals on our tour intervened and told the snake charmer something that made him leave me alone, and then he took me by the arm and led me off, telling me never to pay people like that. Indian brahmans can be hard on their own countrymen.