Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Amazing India....
Well I think this may have been the title of my last blog....but india is so amazing!! Currently chilling out on Palolem Beach in Goa....eating at the organic veg restaurant, reading books and swimming!!!! Ah the life! Ive finally been able to add a bunch of pics to my picasa sight...if you need the link again send a message to my email with the pics of all your halloween costumes ;) Well Im off to bed now...Happy Halloween everyone!!!!
Friday, October 26, 2007
You look like a bollywood movie starr....
thats because I am one....he he!!! Well for my bday Ash, J and I got to be in a bollywood movie...its called Aamir and will be out in 8 months, and of course it will be a huge hit!!!! We'll be in the airport scene!! So much has happened in the past couple weeks....india is such an amazing dynamic country that offers anything anyone could possibly want in a country!!!!
Pushkar was AMAZING....Jaipur was beautiful...Jodhpur was a train station......Jaisalmer was perfect, we met an amazing couple who own an ayurvedic, organic restaurant called July 8, we took a cooking course there and spent most of our days in jaisalmer chilling out at the restaurant and at the jewellers....oh how amazing it was.....the family is world famous (yet so humble and hilarious) and will carve anything you want into a silver or gold ring (each ring takes between 3 and 40 days and you can stay with them and watch its progress)....they are in the guinness world records as the father was able to draw 826 or so letters? onto one piece of rice!!! Also went on a camel trekk...ahhh so uncomfortable, but amazing laying under the stars...my camels name was MJ (Micheal Jackson) which made for a few laughs!!!
Well Im gonna go now...time to eat. Im in Goa now at the beach!!! and it rained for the first time in India...hmmm big hugs, megs
Pushkar was AMAZING....Jaipur was beautiful...Jodhpur was a train station......Jaisalmer was perfect, we met an amazing couple who own an ayurvedic, organic restaurant called July 8, we took a cooking course there and spent most of our days in jaisalmer chilling out at the restaurant and at the jewellers....oh how amazing it was.....the family is world famous (yet so humble and hilarious) and will carve anything you want into a silver or gold ring (each ring takes between 3 and 40 days and you can stay with them and watch its progress)....they are in the guinness world records as the father was able to draw 826 or so letters? onto one piece of rice!!! Also went on a camel trekk...ahhh so uncomfortable, but amazing laying under the stars...my camels name was MJ (Micheal Jackson) which made for a few laughs!!!
Well Im gonna go now...time to eat. Im in Goa now at the beach!!! and it rained for the first time in India...hmmm big hugs, megs
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I love india!!!
Im writing from Jaipur, the pink city, in Rajasthan India....I am having the most amazing time in India, every moment is a beautiful gongshow!!
I have so so many stories and I will try and write a few, partly for you all, and also for me!!! We left Varanasi on an overnight train to Agra to check out the Taj Mahal.....ended up chatting and playing cards with a couple other backpackers so when we arrived sleepless to the Taj we were exhausted. My highlights of the day were the lawnmower at the Taj....2 large white bulls (?) pulling a man and a handmower type thing and all the many many (5 or 6) groups of people asking us to pose in photos with them, "one photo madam" We even had the guys restoring the builidng let us place the new marble on the building and take pics eventhough there was a sign saying no photos allowed!!! It really is an amazing building! From Agra we went to the train station to head to Jaipur, as we waited for the train to arrive we were surrounded by 30 or so guys, age 15-30, just staring at us and giggling, when we got on to the train they all swarmed at the window on the outside of the train where we were sitting, giggling, proposing marriage and confessing their love for us. The continued even after we told them about our many husbands in uzbekistan and kazakstan!! The Indian man beside us said "there must be something special about you girls because there are other tourists over there and they are not bothering them," I reckon the something special is that we are three blonde girls.
Arrived safe in Jaipur and it is so cool here!! Driving in the rickshaw today we saw and elephant heading down the road with all the cars,bikes,people, pigs, goats, monkeys, dogs and a a camel drawn cart.....so cool!!! We saw a goat today that had the colouring of a giraffe, just wait for a pic, its hilarious!!!
Tonight I had my #1 movie experience so far, in my life....we went to Chuck day (thats how it sounds), a bollywood field hockey movie. The cinema was like a lovely pink garishly decorated cake combined with disneyland... so so beautiful, it seated about 1400 people, mostly loud rowdy boys!! Watching the movie felt like being in the circus....people talk so loud, babies and children cry and cell phones ring. Everyone cheers, whoops,sings, screams, claps and whistles...it was the same as being at a live sports game, it was so unreal and utterly fascinating, and I suggest that everyone gets to experience this in their lives ;) I took pics and videos!!
And tonight I had my #1 McD's experience.....check out my pics on picasa, as I write Im adding a few more, but its quite slow....they had the #1 ugliest poster EVER and it made us all laugh so hard...so check out my pics to see......
oh I still have more to write.....we went to Heyy babyy, another movie while in Varanasi...It was hilarious, while at the mall we noticed that there were only men working in the mall, except for the female security guard, only men at Mc'ds, the cinema, everywhere, very strange to see....and McD's is meatless aside from chicken, so they replace the big mac with a chicken maharaja big mac, and have curry and veg burgers and other meatless treats ;)
Anyways I'd better head to bed, off to pushkar tomorrow, cant wait for more adventures!! hugs megs
I have so so many stories and I will try and write a few, partly for you all, and also for me!!! We left Varanasi on an overnight train to Agra to check out the Taj Mahal.....ended up chatting and playing cards with a couple other backpackers so when we arrived sleepless to the Taj we were exhausted. My highlights of the day were the lawnmower at the Taj....2 large white bulls (?) pulling a man and a handmower type thing and all the many many (5 or 6) groups of people asking us to pose in photos with them, "one photo madam" We even had the guys restoring the builidng let us place the new marble on the building and take pics eventhough there was a sign saying no photos allowed!!! It really is an amazing building! From Agra we went to the train station to head to Jaipur, as we waited for the train to arrive we were surrounded by 30 or so guys, age 15-30, just staring at us and giggling, when we got on to the train they all swarmed at the window on the outside of the train where we were sitting, giggling, proposing marriage and confessing their love for us. The continued even after we told them about our many husbands in uzbekistan and kazakstan!! The Indian man beside us said "there must be something special about you girls because there are other tourists over there and they are not bothering them," I reckon the something special is that we are three blonde girls.
Arrived safe in Jaipur and it is so cool here!! Driving in the rickshaw today we saw and elephant heading down the road with all the cars,bikes,people, pigs, goats, monkeys, dogs and a a camel drawn cart.....so cool!!! We saw a goat today that had the colouring of a giraffe, just wait for a pic, its hilarious!!!
Tonight I had my #1 movie experience so far, in my life....we went to Chuck day (thats how it sounds), a bollywood field hockey movie. The cinema was like a lovely pink garishly decorated cake combined with disneyland... so so beautiful, it seated about 1400 people, mostly loud rowdy boys!! Watching the movie felt like being in the circus....people talk so loud, babies and children cry and cell phones ring. Everyone cheers, whoops,sings, screams, claps and whistles...it was the same as being at a live sports game, it was so unreal and utterly fascinating, and I suggest that everyone gets to experience this in their lives ;) I took pics and videos!!
And tonight I had my #1 McD's experience.....check out my pics on picasa, as I write Im adding a few more, but its quite slow....they had the #1 ugliest poster EVER and it made us all laugh so hard...so check out my pics to see......
oh I still have more to write.....we went to Heyy babyy, another movie while in Varanasi...It was hilarious, while at the mall we noticed that there were only men working in the mall, except for the female security guard, only men at Mc'ds, the cinema, everywhere, very strange to see....and McD's is meatless aside from chicken, so they replace the big mac with a chicken maharaja big mac, and have curry and veg burgers and other meatless treats ;)
Anyways I'd better head to bed, off to pushkar tomorrow, cant wait for more adventures!! hugs megs
Monday, October 8, 2007
Beautiful India
Hello from Varanasi.....We arrived in India yesturday afternoon and I love it!!! Pigs, horses, cows, donkeys, chickens and dogs fill the streets and eat all its garbage mmmmmm!!! We stayed near the Ganges river in a lovely guesthouse where I slept on the floor with rat feces, dirty (but supposedly clean)sheets and bugs all around...met a few people on the plane and hired a boat to take us along the ghats after dark where the bodies are cremated and people bathe in the holy water of the Ganges.....Muff kindly let us know a statistic on the cleanliness of the holy river the day before....
"Every day about 60,000 people go down to the Varanasi ghats to take a holy dip along to 7km stretch of river. Along this same river, 30 large sewers are continuosly discharging into the river....Samples from the river show the water has 1.5 million feacal coliform bacteria per 100ml of water. In water that is safe for bathing this figure should be less than 500."
So by the end of this tour my body was covered in bits of feacal matter, from the splashing water of the oars...luckily I had my hand sanitizer to cover my body with!!!! We woke up at 5 this morning and hired the boat again to see all the activity along the ganges.... rituals, washing of clothes, hair cuts, bathing, and cremations (we even saw a man fishing right in front of where the bodies are burned and then tossed into the holy river). We spent the rest of the afternoon searching for a non rat infested hotel and are now in a moldy smelling room of a semi fancy hotel next to the Radisson...until tomorrow night when we take a 12-14 hour overnight train to the Taj Mahal!!! We've been several places (malls) today where women enter through one door and men another....men search men and women search women...this is the same in the airport and it sure makes waiting in line ups a lot quicker as there are a lot more men out and about so we dont have to wait!!!
Okay so Im off to see a bollywood movie tonight!!!! Should be fun!!!
"Every day about 60,000 people go down to the Varanasi ghats to take a holy dip along to 7km stretch of river. Along this same river, 30 large sewers are continuosly discharging into the river....Samples from the river show the water has 1.5 million feacal coliform bacteria per 100ml of water. In water that is safe for bathing this figure should be less than 500."
So by the end of this tour my body was covered in bits of feacal matter, from the splashing water of the oars...luckily I had my hand sanitizer to cover my body with!!!! We woke up at 5 this morning and hired the boat again to see all the activity along the ganges.... rituals, washing of clothes, hair cuts, bathing, and cremations (we even saw a man fishing right in front of where the bodies are burned and then tossed into the holy river). We spent the rest of the afternoon searching for a non rat infested hotel and are now in a moldy smelling room of a semi fancy hotel next to the Radisson...until tomorrow night when we take a 12-14 hour overnight train to the Taj Mahal!!! We've been several places (malls) today where women enter through one door and men another....men search men and women search women...this is the same in the airport and it sure makes waiting in line ups a lot quicker as there are a lot more men out and about so we dont have to wait!!!
Okay so Im off to see a bollywood movie tonight!!!! Should be fun!!!
Prime tail, tender lion
On our last day in Kathmandu I took a pic of one of the funniest signs on my trip. We were wandering past a meat shop and on the window it said the types of meat served..
Prime Tail
Tender Lion
were two of the items on the menu....I cracked up laughing.....later on I mentioned it again and Jenna said "I wonder if they really serve lion there?" Muff and I bust out laughing and kindly (well maybe not so) let J know that it was meant to be tender loin, not tender lion!!!
Prime Tail
Tender Lion
were two of the items on the menu....I cracked up laughing.....later on I mentioned it again and Jenna said "I wonder if they really serve lion there?" Muff and I bust out laughing and kindly (well maybe not so) let J know that it was meant to be tender loin, not tender lion!!!
Saturday, October 6, 2007
You are so ugly....
So today, we headed to Durbar square in Kathmandu...when we lined up to buy entrance tickets a local 'guide' approached us and asked if we would like him to tour us around...we very politely said no and his response was something like "you are not nice tourists and (sarcastically) see you in the next life," and he proceeded to harass us while staring down J's shirt...his response to all of us was "you are very ugly and you very fat, too much chocolate bars and computers!!" It was so funny we bust out laughing, I think its pretty rare to run into people like this in Nepal and there was nothing we could do but laugh...."see you in the next life," I said, and he responed, "I hope not to see you!" later Megs
Friday, October 5, 2007
You look like a Bollywood movie starr....
said the kid at the photo shop as I was getting passport pics for my Reiki Certificate!!! hmmm....I think not (just as funny as the lady in Cambodia who came up to me and asked if I was from Japan) So while we were in Pokhara Muff and I took our Reiki training and now we are fully qualified? Reiki practitioners (perhaps not quite) Our course was a tad bit bogus, but cheap enough to be able to laugh at. We spent 15 minutes watching Swami demonstrate and then were told to read over our notes and come back 3 hours later....when we came back he informed us that he had two clients coming in and we were to give them a Reiki session, hmmmm....no practicing on one another, no refresher, didnt have a clue what I was doing but after the treatment swami (teacher) came in the room and said "friends, your client says they feel the heat....beautiful" anyways that was it, I guess the best part was that I look like a bollywood movie star and I have a certificate.
Spent 5 nights in Pokhara, it was uber touristy, beautiful, but I still love Kathmandu.....one day Ash and I were getting lost in the non touristy local town and I mentioned that I wanted to take some dance lessons and we saw a 'dance studio' and went in......a few guys were practicing their breakdancing skills....so we joined them, this studio had probably never seen a foreigner as the teacher was too embarassed to teach us, but one of the students showed us a few moves, also one night Ash and I started dancing (Nepali dancing)with some local girls on the streets of Thamel, during the street disco......it was hilarious because with in a few seconds of starting dancing we were surrounded by guys, partly because girls dont really go out at night here and because we were the only foreigners out of hundreds of guys and a couple girls on the streets!!! It was a blast.
Anyways Im off to Varanasi, India in 2 days!!! A new adventure!!! hugs
Spent 5 nights in Pokhara, it was uber touristy, beautiful, but I still love Kathmandu.....one day Ash and I were getting lost in the non touristy local town and I mentioned that I wanted to take some dance lessons and we saw a 'dance studio' and went in......a few guys were practicing their breakdancing skills....so we joined them, this studio had probably never seen a foreigner as the teacher was too embarassed to teach us, but one of the students showed us a few moves, also one night Ash and I started dancing (Nepali dancing)with some local girls on the streets of Thamel, during the street disco......it was hilarious because with in a few seconds of starting dancing we were surrounded by guys, partly because girls dont really go out at night here and because we were the only foreigners out of hundreds of guys and a couple girls on the streets!!! It was a blast.
Anyways Im off to Varanasi, India in 2 days!!! A new adventure!!! hugs
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