...second day in Varanasi, woke up at 5 and took a little boat on the Ganges watching morning local life...have never seen so much life and death at the same time. Hundreds of people washing clothes, themselves, praying, and the same time burning their dead and burning ghats, unbelievable view...felt like on the final gate to the place after death where everybody was getting ready for a final judge...on the way back saw few dead bodies floating around...was told that if somebody died by being poison by snake you are not allowed to be burned...
Life is incredible fast here but on the other hand you can see lots of lay back, sleeping, hanging around looking for a shade to hide. Apparently hot season came way earlier and people are not ready for that yet (hmmm global warming? nobody talks about it here) As I mention before I feel like everything is fast forward and in 5 minutes you will never expect how much can happen....my remarkable 5 minutes in Agra: since we had few hours to kill before the train I decided to get to the roof of the restaurant we used to hang out (seems like lots of activities is happening on the roofs of the buildings)...in 5 minutes managed to have last view at Taj Mahal, admired parrots playing in the air on the red sunset, had to fight against kite strings (all the kids form neighbour roofs start pointing kites my direction), little lizards everywhere, I turned around and saw lots of monkeys playing and fighting with each other...and one particular was so beautiful that I couldn't resist to take a picture of..need to climb some pipes, boxes to have a better view, once got a perfect position and the angle I hit something soft with my right leg and felt needles all over my legs, bees were all over my leg...and were stinging where ever they could... took me a while to get to stable position walking back on boxes and pipes finally manage to rescue my leg...and all that was just a 5 minutes...:)
...besides that stomachs are doing better and we are ready for a next move.
hugs and kisses
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3 comments:
Looks like every moment has full of beautiful surprises and great views over there! Looking forward to your next report and the photos!
Stay safe,
Tomo & Greg
Sounds like quite an eye opening adventure!! I'm glad your stomachs are better.
The girls are very intrigued about your travels and love your travel photos... especially Kiara. She's inspired to take beautiful pictures when she goes to Quebec. She's been studying your photos. *sigh* my little baby is leaving her family...sniff sniff
Anyway.. I'm sure you are taking a lot of nice photos and taking in every sight, smell and sound. Stay safe!
Ro
Czesc Grubasku, musi byc tam gitowo ! uwazaj na siebie i czekam na dalsze przygody ;)Sciskam Piotr
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