We’ve been in Bundi now for almost 6 days. The city has a beautiful palace that, at first sight, reminded me a bit of the Alhambra in Granada; it’s quite a sight! Bundi is not hounded by tourists in the same manner as some of the more famous Rajasthan cities and people don’t constantly beg or try to sell you stuff.
The trip from Udaipur to this small city was the toughest one so far: imagine while laying in your bed that someone is shaking it non-stop during 14 hours! That feeling and the constant honking that I can’t get quite used to made it rather unpleasant. It came as no surprise that the next morning my stomach was not in top shape: diarrhea big time. As I’m not very eager to take antibiotics I
decided to walk the alternative route once again: this time Ayurvedic medicine:
an ancient system of natural health care that is native to the Indian
subcontinent. The first time we heard about it was in an internet café where an
English lady spontaneously told me about her explosive visits in the toilet …
and that this stuff was really helping her. When talking to the owner of our
guesthouse we were offered medical assistance by the owners’ brother who also
turned out to be an Ayurvedic doctor. Sarah (our Canadian) travel friend had
also been there and had experienced improvements. Therefore I also decided to go
there and I must say I’m getting better and better. Anyway, to make a long story short: we decided to take it easy for a couple of days so as to recuperate a bit. We’ve been chilling out in the guesthouse a lot, partly also because of the heat (it gets over 30 degrees here during the day).
As it’s quite hot in the south, we’ve decided to visit a couple of more places in the North: Varanasi, Bodghaya and then go up north to Nepal! Our next destination will be Agra: we’re leaving tomorrow to see India’s jewel of Muslim art: the Taj Mahal! This time we’re taking a train … J
