From Goa to Kolkata... I made the way through Mumbai, just for half a day, but it brought back the good memories of the first day. 15 km of slums from the train station to the center, and then, art galleries, cinemas and fancy shops in beatiful colonial buildings. Surprises never stop, that I already learned, and everything is possible in India. You can get your ears cleaned by a guy walking on the street with huge roll of cotton (didn't try this one). It's really nice, Bombay. Next, I went to Khajuraho, the country side of Madhya Pradesh, where I have good friends. Coming this place 3rd time this trip, guess it is special for me. The people are kind and beatiful, and the scenery is amazing. Abandoned palaces and temples, lakes with crystal water lost in the thick jungle, which was a setting for Mowgli's story.
Just take a motorbike and ride for 50 kms and find yourself in amazing places that are in no guide book. The weather was quite hot, and although the monsoon hit pretty hard the rest of India this year, it didn't come to these parts. The farmings suffer badly, and some weird diceases erupt. It also cause an invasion of small stinking black bugs, that are affectionnately named "Gandhi" by the locals, probably because their unagressive, but sticking character. I escaped the heat by swimming in the lakes, rivers and a dam, just few kms away from the village.
Good time, and really good memories, I'll really miss these places and these people and sure hope I'll see them again...
Kolkata is the next destination, but train tickets are impossible to book now from countryside. All trains are full for the next 2 weeks because of Diwali festival, which is coming tomorrow, and hundreds of millions of people apparently shift themselves all over the country. Luckily I had a connection in Varanasi, the guy succeeded in booking me a train ticket for the same day, which proves again that everything is possible, with some baksheesh. So after a night bus I got to the Ganga just in time for sunrise.
Happy Diwali!
1 comment:
Happy Diwali!
It took 8 months to close the circuit, but the old places are attractive again, people are nice, the new pictures in the blog are beatiful and the topic is amazing and a little bit sad ...
Bon voyage, talent boy, be happy and careful
mama
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