well im glad we went back to thailand cause the first time around i totally hated it but this time its been great! we stayed in phi phi for almost a week and it was great. i got sunburnt for the first little while but now im back to being brown after all that time getting pasty in india. phi phi's just really chill, a lot of time spent at the beach and eating. it was very exciting to eat salmon yummmmmm...
considering i spent a lot of time there i dont really know what i did... just beachin' and drinking some buckets. ooh well i noticed that all the foreigners on the island were either irish or english and ive realized they are not as hot as i always thought they were. ooooh well.
oh but one thing i did too is that one day we rented out a longtail boat and we went snorkelling! oh my god it was difficult for me considering i havent gone swimming since i was i dont know, like 11 years old or something. plus i kept hyperventilating underwater! its just not natural to breathe while underwater. but anyway i saw lots and lots of cool looking fish. so many different and vibrant colours and ranging from tiny little fish to big ones the length of my forearm! also coral reefs and i got to see fishies pecking at the reefs and you can actually hear it underwater. it basically looks like what you see at the local aquarium, very interesting. i dont know what the fish are called but i know for sure we saw pufferfish which is fun. then we went to maya beach which is where the movie 'the beach' was filmed and it was nice but a little disappointing, there are much nicer beaches. but in the water there we saw a few baby reef sharks which was exciting.
the boys engaged in some thai kickboxing at the bar, eug got his first tattoo and then off he went to hong kong. me and mini went off to phuket and checked into the sweeeeetest joint ever! we stayed at the most wonderful little boutique resort on kata beach called the boathouse and it was soooooooo nice. our room was great and we had a balcony facing the pool and the restaurant at our place is apparently the best on that whole side of the island and is the only restaurant in thailand to recieve some sorta international wine award so thats fancy shmancy. so of course the food was soooooo goood. our place was right smack in the middle of the beach and right on the beach so the view from the restaurant was amazing and for the times when i was lazy, i could order room service from the restaurant, how sweet is that!? so i ate a whole grilled sea bass at like 3 pm on one day.
anyway, while the water at the beach we went to on phi phi was always totally washed out and shallow, on kata there were some serious waves. so we went boogie boarding which was interesting... it was fun but i kept getting pulled out by the undercurrent and since i cant swim it was a little freaky. oh and by then i wanted to snorkel again but well not in the ocean so i snorkeled for a few minutes in the pool just for kicks. apparnetly i looked retarded.
so thailand has redeemed itself and is the perfect refresher after months in india. oh and its so nice to be tanned and full of good food!
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
a sad goodbye to india, hello (again) to thailand
so im back in thailand now but this time im down in the islands. at the moment im on phi phi don which is near where they filmed that leonardo movie, 'the beach'. aaaaaanyway....
so for our last few days in india i just did yoga, fit in 9 hours of painting and shopped till i dropped. it was such good times! i really miss india now, which i guess isnt surprising since i spent such a long time there. but oh the journey out....we took a sleeper bus (which means i got to stay in a disgusting coffin-like box in a bus) to mumbai. which was supposed to take 14 hours. gross already, right? oh but then it turned into EIGHTEEN HOURS. complete with me peeing on the side of the road. and roads that i wouldnt even really call roads. that's not even the worst of it but im not going to further discuss it cause the mere thought of that trip makes me wanna vomit uncontrollably and curl up into the fetal position.
so we arrived at 11 am and i had to spend the day in my dearly unloved mumbai. pros: got to eat at mcdonalds and buy hindi cds and dvds. cons: mumbai. so then it was off to the airport for a nite flight into kuala lumpur, then back to bangkok. it was a truly painful process going from udaipur to bangkok. oh but back on icky backpacker hole khao san road...me and mini were walking down the street proclaiming how they must have really spiffied up the damn place cause it all looks so clean and new! and then when we noticed that we both kept casually glancing down at our feet while walking in case we stepped in cow shit....khao san wasnt actually cleaner....we just werent in india anymore! oh how i'll miss the garbage and cow poopie.
and so it was a nite in bangkok (highlights: mcdonalds with BEEF!!!!! and of course...shopping.)and then next morning off we go to krabi island where we stayed on...ao nang beach? something like that. its been a bit of a culture shock coming from india and it was here that i noticed how wierd it was to walk on actual sidewalks again and that i didnt really remember how to cross the road properly. oh, india!
it wasnt particularly happening and on mini's birthday we ended up at some beach club that only had middle age drunks slobbering all over each other and thai hos. but still fun! oooooh but what i find truly exciting is that i finally got to watch the new harry potter movie! id been trying to watch it since fucking delhi but somehow never could.....so finally we rented a dvd player and bought a pirated dvd and there we have it! wheeee!
and now were on phi phi don as i said and fuck was i ever seasick on the boat over here! another journey id like to forget....but omg my BED here! in india they dont seem to know what a real bed is. i dont think i ever slept on an actual spring mattress the whole time i was there, it was always a thin sheet of foam with flat pillows. oh but my bed here! i have a/c, a spring mattress, fat-ass pillows and a wonderful fluffy comforter! i think i slept for like 11 hours last nite. anyway, its pissing rain down here on the islands but yesterday it didnt so i got a nice afternoon at the beach. white sand and turquoise water, how purdy. oh but now its PISSING rain yet again! the boys have been off since early this morning for scuba diving but i have a gimp lung so i plan on shopping while theyre off. but for now i think its time for lunch! i plan on posting pics REAL soon!
so for our last few days in india i just did yoga, fit in 9 hours of painting and shopped till i dropped. it was such good times! i really miss india now, which i guess isnt surprising since i spent such a long time there. but oh the journey out....we took a sleeper bus (which means i got to stay in a disgusting coffin-like box in a bus) to mumbai. which was supposed to take 14 hours. gross already, right? oh but then it turned into EIGHTEEN HOURS. complete with me peeing on the side of the road. and roads that i wouldnt even really call roads. that's not even the worst of it but im not going to further discuss it cause the mere thought of that trip makes me wanna vomit uncontrollably and curl up into the fetal position.
so we arrived at 11 am and i had to spend the day in my dearly unloved mumbai. pros: got to eat at mcdonalds and buy hindi cds and dvds. cons: mumbai. so then it was off to the airport for a nite flight into kuala lumpur, then back to bangkok. it was a truly painful process going from udaipur to bangkok. oh but back on icky backpacker hole khao san road...me and mini were walking down the street proclaiming how they must have really spiffied up the damn place cause it all looks so clean and new! and then when we noticed that we both kept casually glancing down at our feet while walking in case we stepped in cow shit....khao san wasnt actually cleaner....we just werent in india anymore! oh how i'll miss the garbage and cow poopie.
and so it was a nite in bangkok (highlights: mcdonalds with BEEF!!!!! and of course...shopping.)and then next morning off we go to krabi island where we stayed on...ao nang beach? something like that. its been a bit of a culture shock coming from india and it was here that i noticed how wierd it was to walk on actual sidewalks again and that i didnt really remember how to cross the road properly. oh, india!
it wasnt particularly happening and on mini's birthday we ended up at some beach club that only had middle age drunks slobbering all over each other and thai hos. but still fun! oooooh but what i find truly exciting is that i finally got to watch the new harry potter movie! id been trying to watch it since fucking delhi but somehow never could.....so finally we rented a dvd player and bought a pirated dvd and there we have it! wheeee!
and now were on phi phi don as i said and fuck was i ever seasick on the boat over here! another journey id like to forget....but omg my BED here! in india they dont seem to know what a real bed is. i dont think i ever slept on an actual spring mattress the whole time i was there, it was always a thin sheet of foam with flat pillows. oh but my bed here! i have a/c, a spring mattress, fat-ass pillows and a wonderful fluffy comforter! i think i slept for like 11 hours last nite. anyway, its pissing rain down here on the islands but yesterday it didnt so i got a nice afternoon at the beach. white sand and turquoise water, how purdy. oh but now its PISSING rain yet again! the boys have been off since early this morning for scuba diving but i have a gimp lung so i plan on shopping while theyre off. but for now i think its time for lunch! i plan on posting pics REAL soon!
Monday, August 13, 2007
magical rajasthan: land of forts, rats & camels
so i wrote a blog entry yesterday but due to shitty computer circumstances, it's disappeared forever! so anyway, i left of in jodhpur which is now one of my favourite places in all of india. in the old part of the city most of the buildings are painted a brilliant shade of blue and it just looks so cooool. it's also got this big ass fort on top of a hill towering over the city and you get the best view ever from it, i must post pics soon. the fort was the best fort ever and it had a sweet ass audio guide that's got sound effects and music. c'mon, that's cool! the palace inside was gorgeous and it had interesting things like the handprints of all the wives of the maharajah who threw themselves into the fire after their hubbie died. oh the drama.
oh i love jodhpur. especially cause i bought 5 pairs of camel leather shoes there. and cause i had the sweetest room ever. we stayed in a havelli i think its called which is something like an old richly decorated home that was built by super wealthy people. but as you should have come to know, im not a very reliable source of accurate info. anyway my room was sweeeeet and it had one of those big window seats with cushions (i dont think im very good at describing things anymore. in fact my english has gone out the window. i say stuff now like, "we go palace 50 rupees".) and my room had a big painting on one of the walls. aaaaaahhhh.....
next stop: bikaner. there's not much in the town itself, we went to a fort which was i thought anticlimatic after the best fort in the universe (that would be the jodhpur fort) but we made the trek out here just so we could go to the rat temple. but before that, we went to a camel breeding farm which evidently produces something like 50% of all india's camels. there were a lot of camels. and then we went to the RAT TEMPLE (proper name...no clue) which is whaddya know, a temple filled with rats. as in rats running around, eating (in fact pilgrims go there to feed the rats and then after the rats nibbled on the food they eat it themselves. i did not engage in such an activity), sleeping on banisters, drinking milk.... the rats are holy, something like reincarnated dead people? i could be totally wrong but theyre definitely holy. thousands of rats! one of them ran over my foot and i screamed, a normal reaction i think, but i felt like a tool immediately. wierdest (and coolest) and temple in all of india for sure.
then we went to jaisalmer which is a fort city in the middle of the thar desert. in the middle of the town is a massive fort which is apparently the only fort with people living in it...in all of the world. i think. the town's really quite but inside the fort its like a tourist's playground, just shops, restaurants, guesthouses, all catering to tourists. not the best but definitely a stark contrast to the south of india! in rajasthan i have seen more europeans than in my entire life. apparently all of europe vacations in rajasthan, who knew. anyway the best part of jaisalmer is that i went on a camel safari! i was reluctant and didnt go first thing in the am like the boys cause i refuse to expose my body to that much discomfort via sun and camel, but i did go off in the afternoon for an over nite deal. (we opted to do a nontouristic safari which means its not on the tourist route and you dont really see any other people.) so there i was, just me, my camel and my little 10 year old guide who could barely speak english. all alone in the desert. no one as far as the eye could see. and yes, we were lost.
thank chubby ganesh i had my cell phone which astoundingly had the best reception ever out there! after me and eug exchanged a couple of calls and standing atop sand dunes just accepting the fact we were lost, we finally met up with the boys and their mini entourage. we set up camp behind some shrubs and romped around on the dunes. there was a sand/wind storm for a while (which actually kinda hurts) so sand + sweat = us covered absolutely with sand. it was kinda nasty. then we had dinner that was cooked over a campfire. saving grace, a man who walks from dawn till midnight from his village, came by and sold us drinks! id never loved warm pepsi so much in my entire life. hot water is not the yummiest thing to drink when you're hot already.
it was fun out there, id never seen so many stars before and i saw my first (and second, third..) shooting star! i also saw my first and hundredth dung beetle. yuck! they just roll camel shit around in the sand, i have no idea what theyre doing with it. and they fly too and land on you and it hurts cause theyve got pointy sharp feet or something. however, it was amusing to see them leap retardedly into the fire. one of our guides said its cause theyre suicidal what with life being so boring in the desert, no electricity and such. we just slept on blankets spread out on the sand and next morning more running around on the dunes. and then it was camels back to civilization!
then it was a dreadful 14 hour bus to undaipur, my current and last real stop in india. i looove udaipur. their big thing here is that the james bond film octopussy was filmed here. it's really lovely here, there are palaces on this big lake and it looks really nice. one of the palaces (the one in the movie) looks like its just floating on the lake and you cant even go out to see it unless youre booked in (which is thousands of $/nite) or if you're going out for the super expensive dinner. so we can just gaze at it from shore.
we've been having fun here and today was my busiest day in a while. i got up early for my 2nd ever yoga class, then i went to a 3 hour miniature painting class (i painted a cute elephant that i named kumar), then silver shopping, then us girls went to an all women and children festival! it was really kinda wierd but fun, they had carnival rides, popcorn, shopping and loads of women and kiddies. and in a few minutes, im gonna go get fitted for a coat that im getting custom made (actually me and krista are getting the same coat and we designed it ourselves) and im gonna pick up a salwar suit (oh god is that what theyre even called?) that i had made for me. fun times! so im off!
oh i love jodhpur. especially cause i bought 5 pairs of camel leather shoes there. and cause i had the sweetest room ever. we stayed in a havelli i think its called which is something like an old richly decorated home that was built by super wealthy people. but as you should have come to know, im not a very reliable source of accurate info. anyway my room was sweeeeet and it had one of those big window seats with cushions (i dont think im very good at describing things anymore. in fact my english has gone out the window. i say stuff now like, "we go palace 50 rupees".) and my room had a big painting on one of the walls. aaaaaahhhh.....
next stop: bikaner. there's not much in the town itself, we went to a fort which was i thought anticlimatic after the best fort in the universe (that would be the jodhpur fort) but we made the trek out here just so we could go to the rat temple. but before that, we went to a camel breeding farm which evidently produces something like 50% of all india's camels. there were a lot of camels. and then we went to the RAT TEMPLE (proper name...no clue) which is whaddya know, a temple filled with rats. as in rats running around, eating (in fact pilgrims go there to feed the rats and then after the rats nibbled on the food they eat it themselves. i did not engage in such an activity), sleeping on banisters, drinking milk.... the rats are holy, something like reincarnated dead people? i could be totally wrong but theyre definitely holy. thousands of rats! one of them ran over my foot and i screamed, a normal reaction i think, but i felt like a tool immediately. wierdest (and coolest) and temple in all of india for sure.
then we went to jaisalmer which is a fort city in the middle of the thar desert. in the middle of the town is a massive fort which is apparently the only fort with people living in it...in all of the world. i think. the town's really quite but inside the fort its like a tourist's playground, just shops, restaurants, guesthouses, all catering to tourists. not the best but definitely a stark contrast to the south of india! in rajasthan i have seen more europeans than in my entire life. apparently all of europe vacations in rajasthan, who knew. anyway the best part of jaisalmer is that i went on a camel safari! i was reluctant and didnt go first thing in the am like the boys cause i refuse to expose my body to that much discomfort via sun and camel, but i did go off in the afternoon for an over nite deal. (we opted to do a nontouristic safari which means its not on the tourist route and you dont really see any other people.) so there i was, just me, my camel and my little 10 year old guide who could barely speak english. all alone in the desert. no one as far as the eye could see. and yes, we were lost.
thank chubby ganesh i had my cell phone which astoundingly had the best reception ever out there! after me and eug exchanged a couple of calls and standing atop sand dunes just accepting the fact we were lost, we finally met up with the boys and their mini entourage. we set up camp behind some shrubs and romped around on the dunes. there was a sand/wind storm for a while (which actually kinda hurts) so sand + sweat = us covered absolutely with sand. it was kinda nasty. then we had dinner that was cooked over a campfire. saving grace, a man who walks from dawn till midnight from his village, came by and sold us drinks! id never loved warm pepsi so much in my entire life. hot water is not the yummiest thing to drink when you're hot already.
it was fun out there, id never seen so many stars before and i saw my first (and second, third..) shooting star! i also saw my first and hundredth dung beetle. yuck! they just roll camel shit around in the sand, i have no idea what theyre doing with it. and they fly too and land on you and it hurts cause theyve got pointy sharp feet or something. however, it was amusing to see them leap retardedly into the fire. one of our guides said its cause theyre suicidal what with life being so boring in the desert, no electricity and such. we just slept on blankets spread out on the sand and next morning more running around on the dunes. and then it was camels back to civilization!
then it was a dreadful 14 hour bus to undaipur, my current and last real stop in india. i looove udaipur. their big thing here is that the james bond film octopussy was filmed here. it's really lovely here, there are palaces on this big lake and it looks really nice. one of the palaces (the one in the movie) looks like its just floating on the lake and you cant even go out to see it unless youre booked in (which is thousands of $/nite) or if you're going out for the super expensive dinner. so we can just gaze at it from shore.
we've been having fun here and today was my busiest day in a while. i got up early for my 2nd ever yoga class, then i went to a 3 hour miniature painting class (i painted a cute elephant that i named kumar), then silver shopping, then us girls went to an all women and children festival! it was really kinda wierd but fun, they had carnival rides, popcorn, shopping and loads of women and kiddies. and in a few minutes, im gonna go get fitted for a coat that im getting custom made (actually me and krista are getting the same coat and we designed it ourselves) and im gonna pick up a salwar suit (oh god is that what theyre even called?) that i had made for me. fun times! so im off!
Friday, August 3, 2007
in the blue city: back to sweatin'
so were back in india now! but from where we left off....i spent my birthday at chitwan national park and unfortunately we did NOT see any rhinos or tigers! we went on an elephant safari and it was the most uncomfortable thing ever. they stick you on a basket with one leg on either side of a corner pole and its just so bumpy. also me and angelee's elephant (whom we named maya) liked to lead with her left and i was on the left so i got scraped up real good in trees PLUS i got stung or bitten by some horrendously painful bug a few times. it was special! however, it didnt rain which was great and we went all throughout the jungle which was cool. and we did see wild pigs, deer, peacocks and some crocodiles. so still good!
and that morning we had gone on a village tour with our wonderful guide whom i call 'ketchup'. he's so cool, hes been kidnapped and kept in the jungle for days without food by maoists before! what a life story. anyway we got to go into one of the family's homes which i think was basically made out of mud. the kitchen's super tiny and dark with a fire pit for cooking. and then we went to another home where we got an awesome home cooked meal, i dont even remember my last homecooked meal. it was served in a bowl made out of leaves and we got rice, some chicken, veg and some little fried fish that we had bought from a local fisherman we had stopped to take pictures of. we got to park our asses on the floor and eat with our hand and it was really yummy.
then at nite we went only to the best cultural show of all time! we thought no one would go but it was fucking packed with people spilling out of the little concert hall! i think it was called the tharu cultural show and it was all men performing and they had different performances like dancing with fighting sticks combined. 2 of the most interesting acts was one with women twirling around like mad except they werent women....they were men in drag complete with fake stuffed boobies! plus for some reason there was a man dressed as a clown in that one as well. apparently they dont have women in their shows. and then the other wierd one was one man dressed in a giant peacock suit. trust me, it was wierd.
then it was back to kathmandu and we went out for a nite on the town for my birthday and angelee's going away. not really a nite on the town, but we did eat pizza and cake at a nice restaurant and then go to the one niteclub we always went to. but it was all good cause the dj loves us and played us our extensive request list.
after dear angelee left we went to a place just 15 km from the tibet border called the last resort which is where mini and eug went bungee jumping off a bridge. there is zero temptation for me to engage in such an activity. at the resort is my first time staying in a tent! so its like i went camping. and then the next day i went canyoning with mini without really knowing what canyoning is first. i was under the impression that its like sliding down waterfalls but its more like getting into a wetsuit and harness and then walking (more like sliding without meaning to) backwards at a 90 degree angle down waterfalls! i wasnt so prepared for that! the first couple waterfalls i got banged up a bit and i was like fuck i hate this! but then as you get used to it its ok. the last waterfall was 46 meters high and it looked pretty scary to me! it felt like forever before i was even halfway down the waterfall and then you look down and think fuck, im still seriously high up. but afterwards it was a good experience....but i dont know if id do it again! oh PLUS i got seriously leached! as we were walking back up the mountain (this part, very unfun) i got leached a bunch of times; i had like 4 leaches in my shoes and one on the spot between my chin and neck! how sick is that!? the sickest thing is the leaches make your blood all wierd so you keep bleeding after you get them off but its this gross congealy blood. naaaaasty.
so that was my outdoorsy experience in nepal! then back to kathmandu and then we took a day trip to a town called patan. they had a beautiful durbar square which i guess is like the town square and we had a guide show us around. he was cool and is half tibetan half sherpa! my first sherpa. anyway, the square is just all beautiful old buildings and plenty more temples with kama sutra carvings. there was one temple calle the golden temple that was particularly nice. and then we rushed through the museum which happened to be one of the nicest museums ever and is in a renovated old palace! something you woudlnt expect to find. A+ to patan.
and then after some serious shopping, back to delhi. i didnt particularly wanna stay in delhi but we had to and the up side is that i got a mcdonalds fix. and then of all places, we went to a T.G.I.F restaurant for drinks and chicken strips! the next day we went to one of the markets but then got stuck in a giant downpour so it was time to headback.
by the way, ih ladakh i decided that i need to start shopping since i really havnet bought anything for myself this entire time. but then it got a little out of hand....from then till kathmandu ive bought 3 wooden masks, 3 mirrors, clothes, paintings... stuff thats not so fun to carry around! so even though i bought an extra duffel bag (which is now broken, fuck!) it was time to ship some shit out. so $90 worth of post is now on its way back to vancouver....
this morning after a 15 hour train or something ridiculous like that....we have arrived in johdpur aka the blue city. the old part of the city has lots of buildings and homes that are painted blue, something about mosquitos? i dont know but it looks really cool and rising up above the whole city is a massive beautiful fort. so far i really like johdpur even though we havnet really done anything. so 2 more weeks of india pretty much and hopefullyi can find time to post photos soon!
and that morning we had gone on a village tour with our wonderful guide whom i call 'ketchup'. he's so cool, hes been kidnapped and kept in the jungle for days without food by maoists before! what a life story. anyway we got to go into one of the family's homes which i think was basically made out of mud. the kitchen's super tiny and dark with a fire pit for cooking. and then we went to another home where we got an awesome home cooked meal, i dont even remember my last homecooked meal. it was served in a bowl made out of leaves and we got rice, some chicken, veg and some little fried fish that we had bought from a local fisherman we had stopped to take pictures of. we got to park our asses on the floor and eat with our hand and it was really yummy.
then at nite we went only to the best cultural show of all time! we thought no one would go but it was fucking packed with people spilling out of the little concert hall! i think it was called the tharu cultural show and it was all men performing and they had different performances like dancing with fighting sticks combined. 2 of the most interesting acts was one with women twirling around like mad except they werent women....they were men in drag complete with fake stuffed boobies! plus for some reason there was a man dressed as a clown in that one as well. apparently they dont have women in their shows. and then the other wierd one was one man dressed in a giant peacock suit. trust me, it was wierd.
then it was back to kathmandu and we went out for a nite on the town for my birthday and angelee's going away. not really a nite on the town, but we did eat pizza and cake at a nice restaurant and then go to the one niteclub we always went to. but it was all good cause the dj loves us and played us our extensive request list.
after dear angelee left we went to a place just 15 km from the tibet border called the last resort which is where mini and eug went bungee jumping off a bridge. there is zero temptation for me to engage in such an activity. at the resort is my first time staying in a tent! so its like i went camping. and then the next day i went canyoning with mini without really knowing what canyoning is first. i was under the impression that its like sliding down waterfalls but its more like getting into a wetsuit and harness and then walking (more like sliding without meaning to) backwards at a 90 degree angle down waterfalls! i wasnt so prepared for that! the first couple waterfalls i got banged up a bit and i was like fuck i hate this! but then as you get used to it its ok. the last waterfall was 46 meters high and it looked pretty scary to me! it felt like forever before i was even halfway down the waterfall and then you look down and think fuck, im still seriously high up. but afterwards it was a good experience....but i dont know if id do it again! oh PLUS i got seriously leached! as we were walking back up the mountain (this part, very unfun) i got leached a bunch of times; i had like 4 leaches in my shoes and one on the spot between my chin and neck! how sick is that!? the sickest thing is the leaches make your blood all wierd so you keep bleeding after you get them off but its this gross congealy blood. naaaaasty.
so that was my outdoorsy experience in nepal! then back to kathmandu and then we took a day trip to a town called patan. they had a beautiful durbar square which i guess is like the town square and we had a guide show us around. he was cool and is half tibetan half sherpa! my first sherpa. anyway, the square is just all beautiful old buildings and plenty more temples with kama sutra carvings. there was one temple calle the golden temple that was particularly nice. and then we rushed through the museum which happened to be one of the nicest museums ever and is in a renovated old palace! something you woudlnt expect to find. A+ to patan.
and then after some serious shopping, back to delhi. i didnt particularly wanna stay in delhi but we had to and the up side is that i got a mcdonalds fix. and then of all places, we went to a T.G.I.F restaurant for drinks and chicken strips! the next day we went to one of the markets but then got stuck in a giant downpour so it was time to headback.
by the way, ih ladakh i decided that i need to start shopping since i really havnet bought anything for myself this entire time. but then it got a little out of hand....from then till kathmandu ive bought 3 wooden masks, 3 mirrors, clothes, paintings... stuff thats not so fun to carry around! so even though i bought an extra duffel bag (which is now broken, fuck!) it was time to ship some shit out. so $90 worth of post is now on its way back to vancouver....
this morning after a 15 hour train or something ridiculous like that....we have arrived in johdpur aka the blue city. the old part of the city has lots of buildings and homes that are painted blue, something about mosquitos? i dont know but it looks really cool and rising up above the whole city is a massive beautiful fort. so far i really like johdpur even though we havnet really done anything. so 2 more weeks of india pretty much and hopefullyi can find time to post photos soon!
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