Thursday, February 28, 2008
India in all its glory
Hello from chaotic India, am sitting in a cafe in Kolkata writing a 5 minute blog....It was such a breath of fresh (dirty) air to arrive in India, able to see everything again, with new eyes. I met a few people in the Bangkok airport, while waiting in the line for our boarding passes, amongst a group of 26 convicts handcuffed together, also waiting in the same line...random. I am sharing a room at a guest house filled with korean people, brilliant!!! Our taxi ride to our hotel ,also brilliant as our taxi driver kept falling asleep...I have pics to prove it, at one point he said "so sleepy, need rest." as he stopped the car, hopped out and poured water all over himself!! Treated my self to a roadside chai and a spinach curry for dinner!! mmmmm....now it is 9pm, and after 14 sleepless hours in the bangkok airport am so ready for a sleep. cant wait to see what adventures i can get myself into tomorrow!! xxxxx
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So wish I was back with the amazing smells of India....daydreaming in my lecture about the randomness that comes with India and all the adventures that lay before you!! You will have to explore for both of us!!! And post tonnes of pics so I can live vicariously through you while I work at my little desk dreaming away!!
Ahhhh Koreans???? Where are they from??? They must be cool if they are in India!! Have fun!!!
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An update for everyone! Megan is on an island in the Bay of Bengal.. "paradise" she says. In the two phonecalls she has been able to make from this internet free environment.. she has much to tell, Look forward to it all! She has changed her look quite drastically.. but she will share the story! Happy Easter all
From Megane's Mom
A post of Megan's from wayyyy back, that I was supposed to post here. but didn't. now can't get sign in to do it. but for fun:
Sept 9 07
Yesturday we went out to a beautiful valley in Nepal with our hotel owner, Lux, and his friend Ardie, a movie star :) and watched filming...it was so different from Hollywood...but really cool to see. Ash, J and I were sitting watching filming and a local boy came around and asked if it was an English film....I reckon they don't see too many westerners....it was especially funny when the camera man and photographer were sneaking shots of us sitting down!!! Perhaps we'll be in a movie when we get back from Everest....now thats another story I'll tell you in a few minutes so keep reading!!!! After filming we met up with Ardie 'actor' and some other new friends at our hotel for dinner, a lovely curry and gin and tonic feast, in the restaurant a ladies association was celebrating and withing a few minutes we were 'driving the car,' ' changing the lightbulb,' learning new dances and proving that white girls cant dance!!! It was brillant and by the end of the night I had 25 bangles stuck on my wrist and other nepalese jewlery as well.....by the time we headed up to our room we had just over 3 hours until we had to wake up and catch our flight to Lukla to start our 16 day trekk...not the smartest thing we had ever done....we arrived at the airport hopped on a small 19 seater plane and headed through the himalayas, it was stunning...just as we were flying over lukla the pilot told us that due to the clouds she could not land the plane, so we turned around and went back to Kathmandu....we soon found out that this was the first flight in about 7 days that had been able to leave for lukla, so we ended up getting a free amazing mountain flight....the downside was that we had to wait in the airport all day to see if the weather cleared in Lukla, an airport that is far worse than the kamloops airport, not even a place to eat, ugh! We have now rebooked our flight and are heading out again tomorrow morn!! Hopefully we will be the first plane to land in 8 days!!! Off to bed now, hugs, megs
oops this one is sept 9, the last was sept 11
Hello everyone...I am writing u all from the top of the world...well almost. I arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal 2 nights ago, flying into Nepal was lovely, like a mountainous legoland!!! Kathmandu is so much more than I ever could have imagined...hectic, colourful, and just oh so amazing!! From the airport hopped in a random mans taxi to his hotel...which turned out to have the most amazing staff....so amazing that we booked a 16 day Mt Everest trekk through them....and we leave in 2 days. We hired a sherpa and a porter to carry our bags...but apparently they won't was our hair!! (an inside joke)!! We are staying outside of the tourist area where everything is local, including the non english speaking restaurant we have eaten at three times. The food here is the best yet and well I think this is my fav country already!!!
So many strange things...like the sit or stand toilet....a squatter and regular toilet in one....oh tonight we went to the one of the most beautiful temples or rather most beautiful sights I have ever seen, it is along the holy river that leads into the ganges...along the river they cremated the deceased right in front of everyone, but before they do this they lay the person along the stairss down to the river where they place the foot of the dead person in the holy water...when the person is fully cremated they push the wood and body into the river...that they bathe in....we watched all of this, quite surreal and unlike anything I have ever seen or experienced! All around this temple are small shiva temples where holy men reside, men who remain pure, and as we were walking at 9pm through this area that is closed at 7 we heard a man calling to us from one of the small buildings....it turned out to be the 'penis holy man' who Im pretty sure is kow worldwide...he lifts a 10kg or heavier rock with his penis, he doesnt do it too often because of the police...but he did it for us!!! I have pics but you'll have to wait till I get back from Everest for them...he was such a lovely man, wishing us 'sweet dreams' and a wonderfu life!!! Its not too often that you can see a man lift a rock with his penis.....
...other fun facts....they have a gasoline shortage here and if you want gas for your car you have to wait between 8 and 10 hours....we saw the taxis all lined up for their night of waiting for gasoline!!!
Oh one more thing.....we are going to be in a gollywood movie ...nepali movie....a director is coming to our hotel tomorrow and then off to get suited up!!!! Hugs, megs
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