Vrindavan was nice...i guess hahaha
I had to take a bus into Mathura which was where all the hotels and shops and what not were, so i was situated there and had to communte the 10kms to Vrindavan, I tried hiring a bike rickshaw, but to my demise no one around me spoke ANY english (this is the first time in 2 months of travelling this country that this has occured)...anyways, I ended up seeing only 2 or 3 main temples in Vrindavan, but they were well worth travelling through the monsoon like rain with the whirlwinds preceeding them (seriously, i could barely see my hand in front of me so dusty).
I saw the birthplace of Krsna, the International Society for Krsna Consciousness (aka the Hare Krishna temple, and it was even a special day, they had a special guru there and everything!). Some of the things in the Hare Krsna place were a bit weird, alot of white ppl, and there was this one murial with the Guru who started it all surrounded by a bunch of hippies and pray circles, kinda intense, but it made me giggle haha.
Anyways, so the rest of Vrindavan and Mathura were fine, the hotel was crappy, but ive finished alice in wonderland and i finished Running with Scissors on the bus today, so 2 more books down!
Just waiting around in delhi for a few hours before heading to the airport, hopefully ill get some more pictures up soon!
SLASH! PPL BETTER READ THIS ONE! JUST CUZ IM HOME TOMORROW DOESNT MAKE IT A PASS!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The Taj Mahal
The trip from Varanasi was nice, just an overnight train, but i was able to meet some new friend! Upon arriving in Agra we chilled out at the hotel for most of the day because its so freakin hot here! Nothing too special to do in Agra aside from the taj, which was breath taking, so it was worth the 750Rs it cost to get in. There is also an emptied out spot on the opposite side of the river where the Raj was going to build another Taj Mahal (I named it the Laham Jat) for his tomb, but he was locked away before he could really get it started cuz it would have cost too much...anyways i was reading alice in wonderland while i was sitting in its presence, always a wonderful way to read. Me and the 2 guys i met went dow to the taj for sunset and chilled out there for most of the later afternoon/early night.
I'm so happy i finished Shataram while i was in Varanasi, that book took me AGES!!!!! I had been on a large book reading spree as of late, I started with Pillars of the Earth by Kem Follet, which was about 1000pgs, then i read The Tailsman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub, which was over 900pgs, then i read Shantaram which was just over 900pgs as well. So it was nice to read some short books now! Ive already finished The Alchemist, which only took me about 24hrs, and now im already over half way done Alice in Wonderland which i only started this morning! WOO PowerReading! Anyways, next is Frankenstein, so Im hoping I can finish that before my flight on Tuesday early AM. Off to Vrindavan tomorrow then onto Delhi for home!
I'm so happy i finished Shataram while i was in Varanasi, that book took me AGES!!!!! I had been on a large book reading spree as of late, I started with Pillars of the Earth by Kem Follet, which was about 1000pgs, then i read The Tailsman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub, which was over 900pgs, then i read Shantaram which was just over 900pgs as well. So it was nice to read some short books now! Ive already finished The Alchemist, which only took me about 24hrs, and now im already over half way done Alice in Wonderland which i only started this morning! WOO PowerReading! Anyways, next is Frankenstein, so Im hoping I can finish that before my flight on Tuesday early AM. Off to Vrindavan tomorrow then onto Delhi for home!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Watching the Pyres
So Varanasi has been interesting, leaving tonight I can look back on the past few days and see the differences between north and south india, and boy do i miss south india hahaha. Its just so much more calm there, ppl are still bugging you asking to buy stuff, but in the north they harass, and the begging is soo much worse here...
Anyways, i got here in the morning after my crazy long train ride, which wasnt horrible, but its was 36hrs on the train, its not going to be good. I had breakfast after checking in and then went down to the ghats, the stairs that lead down into the ganges river. Now if you've been following along, I saw the Ganges river when i first arrived in India 2mths ago, it was in Rishikesh, and the difference is vast. There the water was pure and fresh and clean, but here its black and yellow and green, yet people carry on to use the river as their life souce, washing, drinking and learning to swim in it too! there were swimming lessons going on while i did my boat tour.
So within my first hour of being around the ghat, I saw 3 cremations, these pyres are lit to release the soul from the body and hopefully into nirvana creating the act of moksha and escaping the wheel of samsara (sorry, now im just showing off haha), but a side note, people love travelling with me here cuz im like a tour guide for all the temples and religion! its kinda cool!
Anyways, wondered the dirty streets, found some internet, wanted to put up my pictures but Varanasi hates facebook, so ce la vie.
I met an american who was kinda cool, but he wasnt jiving with india at all, so it kinda bugged me and there was something else about him that i just couldnt pin point...and it turned out that he was a nickelback fan. Really that just explained it all, no wonder he bugged me hahaha. But really, he was so against india, all the honking, and the litter, and i even tried telling him, you just need to let india take you where it wants, dont fight india, you cant win, and he just copntinued to want india to be america, not happening.
So i did a sunrise boat tour of the ghat, i got on this little boat at like 5:30 (although the sun was already up, lame for them not telling me to be there sooner). But being on the boat and seeing all the activity even that early in the morning, its no wonder theres no night life, they were all at the ganges at 5am! But it was neat, i saw the muslim men bathing area, i saw where they were prepareing more fires, i saw the swimming lessons, the kids playing in the bateria infest water, i saw the laundry, i saw the yoga (it was a bunch of kids and one western guy in his mid to late 20s all indianed out, kinda funny), and i saw the prayers.
It was very apparent that the Ganges was the life of the city and a very holy place, i sent a few lotus flower candles down the river in memory of the people I've lost and a few for the ones i love. Varanasi has been good, got me back into north india and the crazy shuffle it is. Off to Agra tonight, so the Taj Mahal is on my list of things to do tomorrow. You can finally stop complaining Kelly. Then one night in agra, bus to Vrindivan to become a HareKrishna, one night there then to delhi for the afternoon before catching my flight! I'll be home in a flash! see ya then!!
Anyways, i got here in the morning after my crazy long train ride, which wasnt horrible, but its was 36hrs on the train, its not going to be good. I had breakfast after checking in and then went down to the ghats, the stairs that lead down into the ganges river. Now if you've been following along, I saw the Ganges river when i first arrived in India 2mths ago, it was in Rishikesh, and the difference is vast. There the water was pure and fresh and clean, but here its black and yellow and green, yet people carry on to use the river as their life souce, washing, drinking and learning to swim in it too! there were swimming lessons going on while i did my boat tour.
So within my first hour of being around the ghat, I saw 3 cremations, these pyres are lit to release the soul from the body and hopefully into nirvana creating the act of moksha and escaping the wheel of samsara (sorry, now im just showing off haha), but a side note, people love travelling with me here cuz im like a tour guide for all the temples and religion! its kinda cool!
Anyways, wondered the dirty streets, found some internet, wanted to put up my pictures but Varanasi hates facebook, so ce la vie.
I met an american who was kinda cool, but he wasnt jiving with india at all, so it kinda bugged me and there was something else about him that i just couldnt pin point...and it turned out that he was a nickelback fan. Really that just explained it all, no wonder he bugged me hahaha. But really, he was so against india, all the honking, and the litter, and i even tried telling him, you just need to let india take you where it wants, dont fight india, you cant win, and he just copntinued to want india to be america, not happening.
So i did a sunrise boat tour of the ghat, i got on this little boat at like 5:30 (although the sun was already up, lame for them not telling me to be there sooner). But being on the boat and seeing all the activity even that early in the morning, its no wonder theres no night life, they were all at the ganges at 5am! But it was neat, i saw the muslim men bathing area, i saw where they were prepareing more fires, i saw the swimming lessons, the kids playing in the bateria infest water, i saw the laundry, i saw the yoga (it was a bunch of kids and one western guy in his mid to late 20s all indianed out, kinda funny), and i saw the prayers.
It was very apparent that the Ganges was the life of the city and a very holy place, i sent a few lotus flower candles down the river in memory of the people I've lost and a few for the ones i love. Varanasi has been good, got me back into north india and the crazy shuffle it is. Off to Agra tonight, so the Taj Mahal is on my list of things to do tomorrow. You can finally stop complaining Kelly. Then one night in agra, bus to Vrindivan to become a HareKrishna, one night there then to delhi for the afternoon before catching my flight! I'll be home in a flash! see ya then!!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Lessons in Time Management
I arrived in Pundicherry at 4:30 in the morning, after leaving my friends in Kumily, I got on the bus to Pundicherry and met this guy named Prabraker who was an indian break dancer, it was pretty cool, he showed me some of his videos...im sure in india hes good, but he would hvae been nothing too special back at home, BUT he did start going through ringtones, and he gave me the ring tone for BLACK OR WHITE by Michael Jackson, so thats my new alarm clock, pretty ballin!
So upon arriving in Pundicherry, it was 430, i couldnt sleep but my hotel had a tv, so i showered and watched top chef before heading out and exploring the town. Its an old french colony, so theres french all over the place and alot of french tourists. I was in the park reading (after being attacked by fire ants) and i met this one creepy guy from france but indian decent and he sid it was his birthday, and after having such a crappy birthday in india myself, i went and bought him a beer.
But he was tres creepy, so i ditched him pretty fast. That night i found myself lounging around and recovering from the bus trip, so i got some street food and it might have been some of the best food ivbe had so far (and there has been ALOT of good food here, definitely going to be the thing i miss the most about india)
Day 2 started late as i finally got to sleep in, but i founbd myself with a heat rash!!! buhhhhh and it still hasnt gone away, im not sure if its becasue my clothes are all gross or just that i was sweating so much, but its tres itchy. I went on the internet once i got moving around and while there a guy asked me in french if i spoke french and and said i speak tres tres petite francse, and he asked if the computer had msn, i said yes and that i was leaving soon (in french!!) and he actually understood me!!
so i started wondering around the sunday market and found 2 americans that hadnt met anyone so i hung out with them the rest of the day as they hadnt had any other non frnech tourist contact, it was sweet!!
So back to their AC hotel we went that night and tried some indian red wine (one of which tasted like soya sauce) and watched Step Up, it was pretty awesome! Becasue my hotel was 24hr check-in/check out, i needed to be out of the room by 5 and the guy wouldnt cut good deal with me so i said eff this and went to the girls hotel at 5 in the morning and slept on their extra chairs until 10am, where we then proceeded for breakfast.
Now my train left chennai at 5:30pm, and i was in Pundicherry until about 1 (thats when my bus left) its a 3 1/2hr bus ride to chennai and i gave myself an hour leway...apparently not enough. I arrived in chennai at 5:00 and was told it took a half hour more to get to the train station and obviously with my luck there was major traffic because of a commie march! So after yelling at the rickshaw driver to go faster and chanting prayers to shiva to destroy the traffic, Ganesha to open routes for me to pass through, and Visnu to allow my train to be running late, i arrived at the train station at 5:40...i ran through the station with my massive bag and somehow found my train still at the platform. I didnt even look at the car and hoped onto the train at which point it started to move, lucily it was also my car, so by the com,bination of hindu miracles i managed to make the most important train of my trip from chennai to varanasi.
So 6 more days until my triumphant return to the great white north and civility. Varanasi is typical north indian so far, lots of honking and yelling and dirt and cows, ive already seen 3 funerals on the ghats where they burn the bodies.
I doubt i can get any photos up here as facebook is BARELY working, so y'all might have to wait for me to get home for the end of my trip pics.
but im almost there!!!!!
So upon arriving in Pundicherry, it was 430, i couldnt sleep but my hotel had a tv, so i showered and watched top chef before heading out and exploring the town. Its an old french colony, so theres french all over the place and alot of french tourists. I was in the park reading (after being attacked by fire ants) and i met this one creepy guy from france but indian decent and he sid it was his birthday, and after having such a crappy birthday in india myself, i went and bought him a beer.
But he was tres creepy, so i ditched him pretty fast. That night i found myself lounging around and recovering from the bus trip, so i got some street food and it might have been some of the best food ivbe had so far (and there has been ALOT of good food here, definitely going to be the thing i miss the most about india)
Day 2 started late as i finally got to sleep in, but i founbd myself with a heat rash!!! buhhhhh and it still hasnt gone away, im not sure if its becasue my clothes are all gross or just that i was sweating so much, but its tres itchy. I went on the internet once i got moving around and while there a guy asked me in french if i spoke french and and said i speak tres tres petite francse, and he asked if the computer had msn, i said yes and that i was leaving soon (in french!!) and he actually understood me!!
so i started wondering around the sunday market and found 2 americans that hadnt met anyone so i hung out with them the rest of the day as they hadnt had any other non frnech tourist contact, it was sweet!!
So back to their AC hotel we went that night and tried some indian red wine (one of which tasted like soya sauce) and watched Step Up, it was pretty awesome! Becasue my hotel was 24hr check-in/check out, i needed to be out of the room by 5 and the guy wouldnt cut good deal with me so i said eff this and went to the girls hotel at 5 in the morning and slept on their extra chairs until 10am, where we then proceeded for breakfast.
Now my train left chennai at 5:30pm, and i was in Pundicherry until about 1 (thats when my bus left) its a 3 1/2hr bus ride to chennai and i gave myself an hour leway...apparently not enough. I arrived in chennai at 5:00 and was told it took a half hour more to get to the train station and obviously with my luck there was major traffic because of a commie march! So after yelling at the rickshaw driver to go faster and chanting prayers to shiva to destroy the traffic, Ganesha to open routes for me to pass through, and Visnu to allow my train to be running late, i arrived at the train station at 5:40...i ran through the station with my massive bag and somehow found my train still at the platform. I didnt even look at the car and hoped onto the train at which point it started to move, lucily it was also my car, so by the com,bination of hindu miracles i managed to make the most important train of my trip from chennai to varanasi.
So 6 more days until my triumphant return to the great white north and civility. Varanasi is typical north indian so far, lots of honking and yelling and dirt and cows, ive already seen 3 funerals on the ghats where they burn the bodies.
I doubt i can get any photos up here as facebook is BARELY working, so y'all might have to wait for me to get home for the end of my trip pics.
but im almost there!!!!!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
FINALLY! a computer that works!
Holla!
I found a computer to put my pictures up on!
So here are my photos from Fort Cochi, Alleppey and the Backwaters:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2201568&id=90401387&l=eba04d7359
My photos from Kumily part 1 (the spice plantations, elephant ride)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2202155&id=90401387&l=4075a888a9
Kumily part 2 (tea factory, Periyar Wildlife Park)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2202157&id=90401387&l=b16f0406a7
theres a few photos of Pundicherry (like an old indian lady carrying a fully feathered dead chicken along the side of the busy street), but those will be put up when i get to chennai or Varanasi. It doesnt look like I'll be able to see the new Xmen in chennai like i was hoping, but I might be able to see the assassination of Jesse James, which i heard was ok, if not then i might try for a bollywood movie, but i should have done that in Mumbai as here all the movies will be in Tamil, but who knows! but yahoo for a 36hr train ride starting tomorrow! back to the north I go! Everyones up to date on photos, enjoy!
I found a computer to put my pictures up on!
So here are my photos from Fort Cochi, Alleppey and the Backwaters:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2201568&id=90401387&l=eba04d7359
My photos from Kumily part 1 (the spice plantations, elephant ride)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2202155&id=90401387&l=4075a888a9
Kumily part 2 (tea factory, Periyar Wildlife Park)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2202157&id=90401387&l=b16f0406a7
theres a few photos of Pundicherry (like an old indian lady carrying a fully feathered dead chicken along the side of the busy street), but those will be put up when i get to chennai or Varanasi. It doesnt look like I'll be able to see the new Xmen in chennai like i was hoping, but I might be able to see the assassination of Jesse James, which i heard was ok, if not then i might try for a bollywood movie, but i should have done that in Mumbai as here all the movies will be in Tamil, but who knows! but yahoo for a 36hr train ride starting tomorrow! back to the north I go! Everyones up to date on photos, enjoy!
Friday, May 1, 2009
After the War of 1812, Canada invented everything, eh
**Sorry this is so stupid long, Ive been busy!!!**
it was a joke that went too far, but apparently after canada won the war of 1812, elieshava believes that we created/incented EVERYTHING, all because i could have sworn the hells angels were from mtl or hamilton or something, and they also didnt believe me when i said that canada helped the dutch out huge in WW2!
so starting with the details i left out from Alleppey, we left for Kumily a few days ago, leaving Antonia and the sweet sweet digusting rooms behind. Now i say they were sweet because it was a bamboo hut on the roof with 3 rooms, enough for the 5 of us. So off Danny, Jonny, Elie, and I went for a 6hr bus ride through the Western Ghats of Kerala up and down and around the mountains as we finally made it to Kumily.
Now Danny had a friend who stayed in Kumily for about 6 wks, so we figured it was safe to go to the place he was at. Safe, yes. Clean, NO! The hotel was dank and the bathrooms barely worked, but again, the company was good, so it made up for it. Upon arriving, we noticed that Kumily is literally on the boarder of Communist Kerala and normal Tamil Nadu (although its just an elected commie party that runs the state, it seems to work as the ppl were the some of the only ones i was able to carry on full conversations without feeling the need to dumb it down or have trouble translating. So after recovering from the long local bus ride (at least this one wasnt as bad as the trip to manali, although my tail bone is injured again), we started out the next morning in full swing.
Day 1 covered alot of ground as we wondered up to this nutso view point that over say the entire valley and over the boreder to Tamil Nadu, after that we arrived at a spice plantation and had a guided tour through the spices. We saw vanilla, nutmeg, pepper, curry leaves (which smelled amazing!) cinnomon sapota (which i tried in amritsar, it was that weird fruit that tasted like butternut squash with brown sugar), italian lemons, jamacian pepper (aka, all spice, also tres cool), PINEAPPLE!, jackfruit, which were just nuts to look at, spinich, cloves (although they werent producing any because of global warming), cardomine, giant aloe vera plants, mint, coffee plants, and guava! Its a big list, but the spice gardens were really cool.
We headed off for our elephant ride after the spices and rode them around for about 1/2hr, got some neat pictures, and there was a pregnent elephant there as well, she was 13mths in and apparently had 9 more mths to go...and she was already huge! So the 4 of us bought a basket of fruit and fed the preggers elephant, it was pretty awesome.
Still our day was not over and we headed to the tea factory and saw how they produced the tea and the grinding it and roasting it and the final packaging and all that stuff, it was really really cool, especially becuase the tea plantations were up and down all the mountains around us.
So finishing off the day i started teasing Elie and she got upset up then started laughing when i said, I'm sorry, but i dont think anyones gonna believe you that a canadian was making fun of you when you tell them about it eh. all the O and the eh's played against her better judgement and made her laugh, so it was all good haha.
Day 2 brought the return of Marco, a swiss guy we had met in Hampi, and with him the 5 of us went to the Periyar Wildlife park to try and see tigers and elephants and all the other cool wildlife! We started the day by doing a 3 hr hike through the woods which resulted in Danny and I being attacked by leeches, and now i have some weird purple marks on my feet, killllerrrr
After getting the leeches off we waited around fro 3hrs to get the boat ride tickets which sold out tres fast and because its indian tourist season, there was no sense of line, so within a matter of seconds the line that i was sitting in broke out into full fledge roit as a group of ppl butted into line ahead of me, there was pushing and shoving and sratching, this was worse then the crowd at paul mccartney in Quebec city, AND WE NEEDED TO PAY FOR THE TICKETS, its not like it was FREE like the concert was! Either way, the boat ride was a bust, they sent like 9 boats out at once and all we saw were some deer and river otters.
We left the park b/c I needed to catch my bus at 5:30 and as we were walking to the bus stand the bus that Jonny, Danny, and Elie had to catch back to Kottayam was just leaving, so there wasnt really any good bye as much as a "Ahh my bus, gotta run, catch you later!!!" So off like a Band-Aid they went and I found myself alone once again.
On the bus I befriended an Indian guy my age that sent me a few ringtones from his phone, so now I have black or white by MJ on my phone! I KNOW!! And he sent me the theme for John Cena, as I said before, Indians Love their wrestling hahaha.
So ive spent the morning wondering pondicherry, Im gonna try and see if I can catch a movie at some point today, already had a massive breakfast (it was a buffet, I figure if im by myself, I miught as well live it up! haha)
The computer here stink, so no updates on photos, and theres so many of them!!! But as soon as I find a computer thats willing to take my pics, "Greetings from Communist India" and "Photos were invented by Canada" will be up and running in no time!
10 more days left in India!! In pundicherry for the weekend, then leave for Varanasi Monday night, arrive wednesday morning. Varanassi for 2 nights, then Agra for a night, Then Vrindivan for a night, spending the 11th in Vrindivan, so I can get to Delhi in the afternoon and head straight to the airport!
it was a joke that went too far, but apparently after canada won the war of 1812, elieshava believes that we created/incented EVERYTHING, all because i could have sworn the hells angels were from mtl or hamilton or something, and they also didnt believe me when i said that canada helped the dutch out huge in WW2!
so starting with the details i left out from Alleppey, we left for Kumily a few days ago, leaving Antonia and the sweet sweet digusting rooms behind. Now i say they were sweet because it was a bamboo hut on the roof with 3 rooms, enough for the 5 of us. So off Danny, Jonny, Elie, and I went for a 6hr bus ride through the Western Ghats of Kerala up and down and around the mountains as we finally made it to Kumily.
Now Danny had a friend who stayed in Kumily for about 6 wks, so we figured it was safe to go to the place he was at. Safe, yes. Clean, NO! The hotel was dank and the bathrooms barely worked, but again, the company was good, so it made up for it. Upon arriving, we noticed that Kumily is literally on the boarder of Communist Kerala and normal Tamil Nadu (although its just an elected commie party that runs the state, it seems to work as the ppl were the some of the only ones i was able to carry on full conversations without feeling the need to dumb it down or have trouble translating. So after recovering from the long local bus ride (at least this one wasnt as bad as the trip to manali, although my tail bone is injured again), we started out the next morning in full swing.
Day 1 covered alot of ground as we wondered up to this nutso view point that over say the entire valley and over the boreder to Tamil Nadu, after that we arrived at a spice plantation and had a guided tour through the spices. We saw vanilla, nutmeg, pepper, curry leaves (which smelled amazing!) cinnomon sapota (which i tried in amritsar, it was that weird fruit that tasted like butternut squash with brown sugar), italian lemons, jamacian pepper (aka, all spice, also tres cool), PINEAPPLE!, jackfruit, which were just nuts to look at, spinich, cloves (although they werent producing any because of global warming), cardomine, giant aloe vera plants, mint, coffee plants, and guava! Its a big list, but the spice gardens were really cool.
We headed off for our elephant ride after the spices and rode them around for about 1/2hr, got some neat pictures, and there was a pregnent elephant there as well, she was 13mths in and apparently had 9 more mths to go...and she was already huge! So the 4 of us bought a basket of fruit and fed the preggers elephant, it was pretty awesome.
Still our day was not over and we headed to the tea factory and saw how they produced the tea and the grinding it and roasting it and the final packaging and all that stuff, it was really really cool, especially becuase the tea plantations were up and down all the mountains around us.
So finishing off the day i started teasing Elie and she got upset up then started laughing when i said, I'm sorry, but i dont think anyones gonna believe you that a canadian was making fun of you when you tell them about it eh. all the O and the eh's played against her better judgement and made her laugh, so it was all good haha.
Day 2 brought the return of Marco, a swiss guy we had met in Hampi, and with him the 5 of us went to the Periyar Wildlife park to try and see tigers and elephants and all the other cool wildlife! We started the day by doing a 3 hr hike through the woods which resulted in Danny and I being attacked by leeches, and now i have some weird purple marks on my feet, killllerrrr
After getting the leeches off we waited around fro 3hrs to get the boat ride tickets which sold out tres fast and because its indian tourist season, there was no sense of line, so within a matter of seconds the line that i was sitting in broke out into full fledge roit as a group of ppl butted into line ahead of me, there was pushing and shoving and sratching, this was worse then the crowd at paul mccartney in Quebec city, AND WE NEEDED TO PAY FOR THE TICKETS, its not like it was FREE like the concert was! Either way, the boat ride was a bust, they sent like 9 boats out at once and all we saw were some deer and river otters.
We left the park b/c I needed to catch my bus at 5:30 and as we were walking to the bus stand the bus that Jonny, Danny, and Elie had to catch back to Kottayam was just leaving, so there wasnt really any good bye as much as a "Ahh my bus, gotta run, catch you later!!!" So off like a Band-Aid they went and I found myself alone once again.
On the bus I befriended an Indian guy my age that sent me a few ringtones from his phone, so now I have black or white by MJ on my phone! I KNOW!! And he sent me the theme for John Cena, as I said before, Indians Love their wrestling hahaha.
So ive spent the morning wondering pondicherry, Im gonna try and see if I can catch a movie at some point today, already had a massive breakfast (it was a buffet, I figure if im by myself, I miught as well live it up! haha)
The computer here stink, so no updates on photos, and theres so many of them!!! But as soon as I find a computer thats willing to take my pics, "Greetings from Communist India" and "Photos were invented by Canada" will be up and running in no time!
10 more days left in India!! In pundicherry for the weekend, then leave for Varanasi Monday night, arrive wednesday morning. Varanassi for 2 nights, then Agra for a night, Then Vrindivan for a night, spending the 11th in Vrindivan, so I can get to Delhi in the afternoon and head straight to the airport!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Price of Good Company
Back from the backwaters!
Hopefully I can get my pictures up, but the boat trip was crazy good! Alleppey has been really nice, very chill, and GREAT tomato fry! So the 5 of us (Jon, Antonia, Danny, and Elie) got to the boat around 11ish and spent the entire afternoon cruising along the backwaters of Alleppey. The houseboats are massive, ours was 3 bedrooms with a giant area for us to hang out all day, so it wasn’t like it was cramped together at all. We brought a bunch of beer with us as well as some whiskey and rum, but the crew got into the rum before we did, but they seemed happy with us the rest of the trip so all was not lost.
Been having a great time with all the new ppl ive been meeting, the ones im hanging out with now are especially cool tho, my original plan was to head to Kumily (where theres all the tea plantations and spice feilds as well as a wildlife sanctuary to see the elephants in) i was going to head there tonight, but everyone else is sticking around alleppey for one more night before moving on, so ive decided to stay here with them and party it up one more night before heading off on my own again, unless i can convince them all to come with me, which may be a possibility
So another night in Alleppey, losing a night in Pundicherry and a night in Kumily it seems, but so is the price of good company! but ill be on my own soon enough! not even jon's gonna come with me to Pundicherry, and im missing a HUGE festival in kerala that starts may 3rd, just another reason to come back.
no updates in pics today, but i got some good pirate ones!
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