It's an interesting experience at the Karni Mata Temple, and I really enjoyed myself, but if you have any fear or aversion to rats you may want to sit this one out. Because it's a temple you have to remove your shoes to enter, and since we were in sandals we were completely bare foot in a temple full of rats (and pigeons) scurrying around. It's really not at all what you'd expect to be in rooms full of rats, because the little guys are treated and fed so well that they really are quite docile. Most of them were curled up around the edges of the room sleeping, while most of the others did nothing else but eat. If you're in the area definitely go visit the temple, it's a fun and very different thing to experience! :)

Karni Mata is the Hindu Rat temple, where the latter are venerated, as they are thought to be reincarnations of story tellers.

They are fed, and people come to pray to them. It brings good luck if you spot a white rat.