Sorry for so long since the last update...we have been really busy and on the move most days so we have a good excuse! We just arrived in Rajasthan tonight in the city of Udaipur (we already both love it, we just had dinner on a rooftop cafe overlooking the palace and lake) after spending 6 days down south in Kerala. So much to tell from the last week...I will try to give some highlights.
My favourite parts were the day and half we spent on the beach (although we both burnt terribly, especially Rach), eating amazing fresh seafood (yesterday we went down to the docks and chose what we wanted and then they went and cooked it up for us), seeing the backwaters in a canoe ride, finding out another type of Indian bread I have become a little obsessed with (parotta-it is softer than chapatis, kinda like a crepe...pretty much heaven!), eating fresh mangoes, and going a little crazy with my scarf shopping!
My least favourite parts have been the bugs in one town we encountered...now we refer to it as the city of cockroaches...lets just say we found an enormous one in our room and one on our table after eating dinner (so gross!), and many on the streets both alive and dead. Not surprisingly we could not wait to leave this city! We also had an upsetting incident where an Indian man grabbed the woman we were walking with on our way together to find a place for dinner, it was at night and it really creeped us out. Rach and I have been lucky so far and hope to stay so but it has made me so weary of Indian men again. The only other bad part was the ridiculous humidity (my shirt would be soaked after five minutes outside) and missing the ICCP. Our last day there was so sad and sweet, everyone was so good to us, we both were feeling very odd not being there this week and missing the kids already!
We had some kinda funny things happen to us as well. On a canoe boat tour of the backwaters (the canals through lush tropical forest) we got our photos taken many times that may end up in an Indian travel magazine. These two men joined our group and then proceeded to walk alongside the boat and take constant photos for almost the whole two hour trip. I think they were legit...although who knows here! I think if photos do end up in the magazine (they promised to email us) they will not be of Rach and I or the middle aged British couple but rather of the young Danish girl. Rach and I with our curly hair both had terrible afros from the humidity and I was SO sweaty whereas Andrea the Danish girl looked like she just stepped out of her room in the morning ( she is also very tall and blond!). Then yesterday as we were walking down the street a well dressed woman asked us if we would like to be in her husbands commercial (he was standing beside her on his cell). Normally I would have thought this was also a scam but we heard from our friend in Kolkata that it happens often in Mumbai where white women are asked to be in commercials. Sadly we were flying out today so we lost another chance at fame in India!
We are in Rajasthan for 7 nights, we are going to four cities (5 if you count Delhi where we fly out of) and plan to see many palaces, forts, do a cooking class, a camel safari, see the Taj, get Ayervedic massages, and much more...so hopefully we can fit it all in!! Hope to update you again soon and perhaps even add photos...a shocking idea I know! Thanks for following!
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