Thursday, October 18, 2007

Jodhpur


After another day spent in a hot hot bus, we arrived to Jodhpur where the fort is even greater than in Jaisalmer!
The city is blue, the houses the color of early morning sky.
Last night we went to celebrate Durga Puja, a 9-day long festival for the hoor of the hindu goddesses. Thinking we would dance a little and admire the beautiful colours of indian girls' dresses adn dancing. Well... we ended up being special guests, danced in a competition, sat with the judges in a well-light stage while hundreds of people were staring towards us. I got to speak in the mic for the audience and had a lovely big cup -price and flowers around my neck. There were pictures taken to the newspaper of Tiina and I dancing. Today we shall have lunch with the main organizer's family and we are to be dressed up in national costumes for tonights final show..


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Jaisalmer


Greetings from Jaisalmer, the Golden City. In the middle of the city in this desert in the north-west of India, close to Pakistan border, a huge old fort rises. It looks like a giant sand-castle.
Last night was a perfect escape from our hectic traveling and noisy cities. We slept under a wonderfully star-filled sky in the sand dunes, after riding camels through the hot desert. And we had such great company. Three young german guys and our guides made the experience even more fun. We were jumping in the dunes when it was pitch dark, running races, eating good camping food. And just lying on the sand and watching a beautiful sunset. Ahh. And the camels were nice, mine was called Rocket, and he could go quite fast, almost faster than our guide’s camel!
Oh, all those nice people we’ve met during these two weeks! I got an insight to the educational system here by talking to a nice family from Calcutta on a train. And had a driver and a car with a nice finnish couple for a day in delhi –for free… : ) In the train to Jaisalmer (20h) we shared the bed-area with a really friendly couple from England. And a cute gay-guy from Belgium, who looked like 30 but was almost 50 (said thanks to all the moisturizes and herbal creams)...and many other... tomorrow off to Jodhpur.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Delhi




Greetings from Delhi! it's been really hot here!

...we've seen so many places here in this hassle of a huge city. and it's again time to go...this time to the desert in the north-west of india.

the lotus temple in delhi