WALKING AROUND THIS PLACE MADE ME FEEL SO WONDERFUL AND PEACEFUL. IT IS THE MOST PEACEFUL PLACE I HAVE FOUND IN INDIA YET. AND SO BEAUTIFUL. THE CARVINGS...WOW.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
kama sutra
i had booked a flight from varansi to khajuraho, that is where the temples of the kama sutra are. rohmann has headed to katmandu nepal. but after waiting at the airport for 3 hours i was told that due to heavy fog our flight was cancelled. when i was standing in line to fugure out what ot do next i met a german man in the same position. we decided that rather than risking it being canceled again the next day, we would share a cab. i wont bore you with the details....umm, we started out at 3pm....awful bumpy then wet and bumpy road.....no bathroom...no food...often wondering if they were simply taking us to the middle of nowhere to get rid of us....millions of giant trucks trying to crash into us...seeing many giant truck remains after they crashed into something else...at one in the morning as we were going through the first town of any size, i told them that i wanted to get a hotel there. we found one and the drivers left. it was still another almost 3 hours. if we had kept those drives and in the think fog...it would have been at least 5 more hours. yikes!
VARANASI
THIS PLACE WAS BIG ON MY LIST OF 'TO SEES'. BY THE TIME WE REACHED THERE WE WERE SO BEAT THAT IT WAS HARD TO ENJOY ANYTHING. WE SLEPT FOR MOST OF THE FIRST DAY AND THEN WE WENT OUT ON A PRE DAWN BOAT TRIP ON THE GANGES TO WATCH THE MORNING UNFORLD. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL BUT WE HAD A WOMAN ON OUR BOAT WHO ONLY STOPPED TALKING LONG ENOUGH TO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY. MAYBE THEY WERE DUTCH? IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO ENJOY THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE WITH HER CHATTER. WE WERE OUT ON THE BOAT FOR 2 HOURS. IT WAS PRETTY AMAZING. I DIDNT TAKE MANY PICTURES AS IT SEEMED LIKE I WOULD BE INVADING THE SPIRITUAL SPACE OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE BATHING AND PRAYING, DOING YOGA AND EVEN SWIMMING IN THE GANGES. WE DID SEE SOME FISH JUMPING SO ALL IS NOT YET LOST FOR THAT RIVER!
TAJ MAHAL
OKAY, SO I TOTALLY DROPPED THE BALL WITH THE TAJ PICUTES! BUT I AM SURE THAT YOU COULD FIND MANY ON A WEBSITE. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL BUT WE WERE VERY TIRED BY THE TIME WE WENT THERE. AND SO MANY PEOPLE. BUT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
A CRAFTYS WORK IS NEVER DONE
AFTER GIVING ALL MY PEPTO BISMAL TABLETS TO OUR CAMEL DRIVER WHO SUFFERED BADLYAND WAS SO GREATFUL FOR THE RELIEF THAT HE INSISTED THAT I RIDE HIS CAMEL. HE WAS A SWEET MAN. ONE OF OUR CAMEL RIDERS (THE WOMAN FROM DENMAK) TOLD ME THAT SHE HAD HAD SURGERY ON HER BACK MORE THAN 4 WEEKS BEFORE AND NOW THE SCAR WAS BOTHERING HER. THE PROBLEM WAS THREE STITCHES THAT WERENT REMOVED. SO THERE WE WERE WITH SUCH LIMITED TOOLS! I USED NAIL CLIPPERS AND IT WORKED. I SURE HOPE SHE IS HEALING WELL.
AS ROHMANN TOOK THE PICTURE HE SAID 'I THINKI SAW THIS ON THE TERMANATOR MOVIE!'
WE HAD MANY CHILDREN VISIT US ON CHRISTMAS EVE!
WE GAVE AS MANY GIFTS AS WE HAD TO GIVE ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY. WE ALL DUG INTO OUR PACKS AND CAME OUT WITH HAIR TIES TO HATS AND WHATEVER ELSE WE COULD FIND AND PART WITH. THERE WERE SOME AMAZING CHILDREN. THERE WAS ONE BOY WHO WON MY HEART AND NOT JUST BECAUSE WE SHARED THE SAME EYE COLOR. HE WAS SO SMART AND TRIED SO HARD AND SHOWED SUCH PRIDE. HE KNEW HOW TO SAY AND WRITE HIS ABC'S IN ENGLISH AND WE SAND AND DREW IN THE SAND. ON CHRISTMAS DAY HE RETURNED WITH HIS SISTER AND OTHER CHILDREN TO COLLECT THE CAMEL DUNG FOR FIRE. WHEN WE WERE HANDING OUT GIFTS ROHMANN WAS KIND ENOUGH TO GIVE A HARD COVERED NOTE BOOK AND I ADDED A PEN AND THE BOY AND I WROTE THE ABC'S AND OUR NAMES IN THERE. I HAD OUR GUIDE TRANSLATE TO THE BOY HOW PROUD OF HIM I AM AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO KEEP STUDYING.
IT WAS A MOST BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS MORNING.
AS WE ROAD AWAY THE CHILDREN KEPT CALLING 'TATA!" UNTILL WE WERE WELL OUT OF SIGHT.
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