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India, the country of extremes. Where you
see the women walking down the street, dressed in beautiful silk saris, with
flowers in their hair, spreading an intriguing perfume. You stumble over the holy
cows on the street, laying in the doorway of a shop for some shade, after
eating plastic bags, that are spread along the roads. Where you see a little
girl beg with her sister as her parents have died. You nearly got run over by a pryus car, but jet the dude
down the street had a tiny shop where he irons clots with an iron that runs on
coals. The again, there are so many power shortages happening here that that
probably works better. After which they
think it’s absolutely fine to start poking the electricity lines on the poles
some 3 meter’s above the ground with a wooden broom. It’s the country of rich
and poor, development and the feeling of being 60 years back in time. Where
showing your shoulders is downright porn and haggling a form of art. As a
women, you can better let the men do the talking ore they think you have you
period. And the first is definitely hard
for me.
But after having gotten used to a more ore
less similar culture in Sri Lanka, we both surpsingly like it here. The people
seem to hassle you less here and the prices are more reasonable. Plus the men
leave me alone a whole lot more here which makes a big difference.
It did help of course that there was some
good surf for Grom, who got barrelled a couple of times and caught some nice
waves. It was a hot ordeal dough as the water was about 30 C and the sun
shining brightly. And then to think this is winter time here. They have a lot
of nice shops around here with beautiful stone work and shawls. And a great
restaurant called Le Yogi, run by an French-India couple, resulting in very
tasty food you can eat while sitting on your cushion on the floor from you Chinese
stile low table. And I haven’t even
mention the beautiful temples around here. The carving is very detailed and is
made in the 7th century. They created a lot of different temples
carved out in the rocks as well as the shore Temple and the 5 Rathas. The big
bolder called Shiva’s butternut seems to balance dangerously, which inspired
the Indian government to try and remove it using 7 elephants in the 60’s. With
no result as you can see.
With other words, we are happy we are here.
