Bangalore/Hyderabad
everywhere there is tiny indians with small white hats (muslims) and women with burkas. im i in india? yes, im the middle of the muslim area of the shopping district of commercial street.
transportation is always an intressting deal everywhere in india. the tuktuks. first you need to find one who is working. then if he (there is no she as far as i know.....) then, does he speaks english? does he understand where you want to go? is he going with meter or you need to deal the price of the trip? sometimes is fast other times you need to ask a few before going to your destiny.
on the way. the loud engine in your ear, the loud horns from the other trafficants. many diffrent one. not like in sweden where we just alowed to have one kind of horn sounds. imagine 50 diffrent ones and music when your turning your car. all the sounds all the time using it in the same time. then add a lot of dark dust. roads of a mix of dust garbage, shit and pee and dead animals plastic bottles, papers...everything you can imagine....
but there is one potestive thing here, actually there is a garbage caring in this city. at least in some places so it IS cleaner. and more modern.
actually bangalore is the most cleanest and modernest city so far, with shopping malls bigger than anyone in sweden. hipp nightlife but with closing time at 23.30.
now im in hyderabad and explored the city fast, but what i can see its quite similar to bagalore but smaller and with a lot of mosques and temples. tomorrow its time for puri in the east cost.
madurai/ponducherry
Varkala/ Happy new year!
now im in varkala and its great here. beach. sun. relaxing. yes.
i have a hometicket 19 january, and this is my flight details:
AY 22R 19JAN 2 DELHEL*HK1 1015 1415 /DCAY*3WRAQK /E
AY 677R 19JAN 2 HELGOT*HK1 1645 1710 /DCAY*3WRAQK /E
so it means im home 17.10 in goteborg.
Happy new year everyone!!
nightmare travel....
the worst is that there is impossible to go anywhere in short notice...every trip you do need to be book ahead a few weeks...there is no train or bus at all free.
now i have a plane in ....3 hours to kochin in kerala. and then i hope i will stay there for some time so be normal in my body! my back is totolly messed up, and my head is hurting....my eys is red....i hope for a better dya tomorrow.
well well, just took my last 3 shot of rabies vaccine. was easy, just go to the chemist and say i need rabies vaccine. they give me the vacvcine without any prescrittion or anything. i chould injekt by my self...but i found an dr in the close who did it for free. the chimist by the way told me that i should take all shots from the same fabric....but i already taked the 2 first shot from diffrent fabrics. in the end she said, - i its okey. you will be protected and then she she looked like she dident care and hoped for the best. ah what should i do im in india haha, hopfully its working and im fully protected now.
map on my route until now
hampi
skolpojkar
skolflickor pa besok i temlpen
elefant inne i tempel omradet
kvinna som saljer bananer utanfor templet
hannuman, en hindu gud
heliga glada mens
templet hogt upp
apor pa vag upp till ett tmepel hogt upp
annu en vacker katt, dock forvildad
omradet dar vi bor, en gammal stenbro
en aker nara dar vi bor
baten over till andra sidan dar vi bor
hampi is nice, seen a lot of temples today, and yes soon i will put pictures up! its quite and beutiful here, feels like we are in on the country side here. i like it here. alsow bought a ticket to kuala lumpur in malaysia 8 januari i will go there.
palolem
palolem beach
palolem
cirkus pa stranden...
min bungalo
jag i en hangmatta pa min balkong
bussen till palolem, sa ser en local standard buss ut innuti, langst upp i mitten finns ett altare med ett par hindu gudar
its really great here, came here some days ago and i like it much more here than in northern goa. when your in the water and looking into the beack you see beutiful palms everywhere, its green, and its feel untuched. im living in a bungalo 10 meters from the water! when im going to sleep i can here the oceaon, the weaves from the beach. cant be better, life is great here!!! tomorrow we going to hampi and then to gokarna in karnataka.
trance, hippies, beaches, yes im in goa.
vagator beach
elefant
en trevlig tyska, vi hyre eu moppe i baga
when i arrived here its seemed to be muh malller than i remember goa! after seing the north of india, goa is very harmless and a light version of the rest of india. yeah so i dont know yet where and when i will go on. so until i know i will buy coconuts lie on the beach...eat. yeah thats it.
back in india- BOMBAY!
ett litet tag pa elefant
elefant grottorna
terror hotellet, aterbyggnad pagar
bombay gate och hotellet som var attackerat av terror forra aret
mumbai center
the city everyone have heard about,thats where iam now, bombay (mumbai). i wasflying the whole yesterday with 3diffrent flights from phokora - kathmandu-delhi-mumbai, i found a very nice woman on the way and we willmeet up in goa or kerala later. was arriving late in middnight and checked in a hotel near the airport.this morning i was going to the city. its good to be in an harbour again, to be near the oceon feels so good, almost like home in gbg....almost...but very diffrent.its 30 degrees here around.
tomorrow i willgo with a boat out to the elephant islands,where thereis caves. and then i think will take a night buss to goa!
pokhora
tibetanska gasthuset jag bodde i
en vacker katt pa vag till phokara
today i was traveling 7 hours west of kathmandu to a more peaceful place than kathmandu. its reminds me a bit on rishikesh in india, but colder.
im not sure if i should just stay here for some day and then go on south and over the border to india and fast as possible to mumbai.
or
just stay and relax a bit extra here and then go.
my nepal visa is guilty for 15 days.
why its hard to chose is cause 1 day before i was flying here i took the first injection for rabies on a good hospital i kolkata. and i need to take the 2an one 7 days after the first...witch meens that if im staying i need to go to a hospital here in nepal, and im not so sure if i want to go here. im sure they are good here to if i go to a expensive one, but i rather go to and indian one. the third option is that i go to a chemist and buy the injektion and take it by my own, but im not so sure if i have the nerv to do it...and i dont want to ask anyone around....then i do it by my own and know it will be right.
I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO!!!
i havent writed that in kolkata i was eating on a good resturang with my flo the last dinner together, and we was eating the most expensive fish. lobster. was delicious and just 100kr!
sunderbans - NEPAL, Kathmandu
ett torg i kathmandu
sunderband nationalpark
flo pa var bat
varan guide
sa har bygger man hus i indien....
baten i sunderban for local befolkningen
3 days we stayed in sunderbans national park, south of kolkata. it was an intressting trip. its an mangrove "trask" forgott what it was in english.... the words biggest. in the park there is tigers, krokodiles, djungelcats, leuguans ...and many many birds. we dident saw so much just krokodile and some leuguans and some birds, but the are was intressting to se! we went around with an own private boat all time, feeled very luxuary with that when all others was on a crowded " taxi" boat...thanx to my florian we dident need to :)).
and now im in kathmandu. suddenly.
after flo leaved for germany i was alone again, and it dident feel right to go in in india right now so i have a break for max 15 days and then my visa expire and i probobly will fly to mumbai from here. im not saure yet what i will do here. will figure it out tomorrow. i really would like to start with some yoga or some training, feel so weak and my mucles are almost gone it feels like!
its not so cold here as it was in darjeeling, maybe its around 10-15 degrees. soon i will have a little evening walk around the area here, buy some toiletpaper ( just very good hotels have it, and by the way your not alowed to flush the litter, so there is a bucket beside to throw it, like in a caravan!), my hotel is a very cheep one and im charing bathroom with 11 other people. its okey. i will have a look around after another hotel tomorrow. price is 375 nepalesi rupie.
calcutta or kolkata
en hast nara en park i kolkata. hastarna ar hemskt magra har. overallt.
viktoria mememorial i kolkata
from darjeeling we took a flight to here yesterday, was very nice and fast, just 1 hour and cost 500kr for 1 person. it was worth it. yesterday we explored the nearest part of our hotel and its very nice, much nicer than delhi. we was eating on a very nice resturang, the nicest untill now. until now all food taste the same. if im eating the indian food its all taste curry with a bit diffrent variation and the continental food is all the same everywhere, i think the all went in the same school for international cooking. but in this resturang they ad a lot of other choices of dinner! so mmy dinner was aspargel crepes and it was wonderful!!! best in a long time. today we alsow find a nice breakfast cafe, had the best breakfast in long time. bread basket and a grilled panini with tomato and chese basilika. and now our mission is to arrange a trip t the sunderban national park south of kolkata. its warm here around 30 degrees its a bit diffrent to the 5 degree in darjelling. its full of noises and much people everywhere, music and many beggers as everywhere in india. i dont give any monay, i dont belive in thats make any diffrent, its better to give to a projekt who is helping the people who needs help. soon its december and its really dont feel like that. home i belive its already ready for cristmas? all decoration is already up and itas cold, maybe snow sometimes? i dont follow the news at all, just a bit from the local part im in here when there is free newspapers, so i dont have a clue whats happen in little europe, and its quite a relife to just leav it behind.
darjeeling
te plantagen i darjeeling, mycket vackert
intressant insekt i taget till darjeeling
ater momos i taget!
leksakstaget till darjeeling...tog lang tid. for lang tid!!
now we are in darjeeling. we went here by train from first jaipur to delhi and then i stayed in a hotel there one and a half night. in the evening we took a night train in first class wish was very pleasent. the "bed" was okey and the sight from the train was very intresting, much desert, wetland and fields with farmers from time to lime there was a town or village in very poor condition. small "slums". however we arrived in the evening at new jaligipur and we was tired and it was late we had a hotel we knew we will go to so we took a tuktuk to the town siliguri very close from there. the gueshouse was okey for the price 200ru. we sleeped there for 4 or 5 hours and then we continued on a toy train up to darjeeling. it was very slow and very long 6 hours it took. the first 3 hours was amazing. the view was really good with but then we came a bit higher and clouds starting to come and i was very tired.
agra und jaipur
ekorrar inom taj mahal
me and flo infront of taj mahal
innan agra och jaipur var vi rishikesh, har dricker vi te med en helig man baba
te standet i rishikesh
ett tempel i rishikesh
so we are here me and flo
amritsar-delhi
the flag cermony, and loud military woman who stand infron us and controled so everyone was sitting down
pakistan!
candles infron of golden temple
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a man is bathing infron of the golden temple
an sikh family in the golden temple area wanted me to take a picture of them
jep, now im back to delhi. its noisy, stressy, crowded with people all the time, smelling weird. thats delhi. i arrived yesterday from amritsar.
the last days in dharamshala i dident do so much just hanged around with the friends i maked there and i was on the dalai lama teaching. we where going up early in the morning around six and eated breakfast on my hotel green. they are very pleasent there always happy even if they are always there and working. the breakfast i eat was ricepudding with banana and a cup of ginger, lemon honey. i use to eat this when i eat on the hotel resturang. after breakfast we went to the monastery where the teaching where hold. we waited for 2 hours but the time went very fast cause there was so much things happend around. we sat on the floor on a pillow i took from the room i rented. we got chai and tibetan bread. dalai lama came a bit late but he came and i could see him from the place i was sitting around 30meter away. there was alsow screens so we sould see him on the tv and he talked on tibetan so we had a radio with headspeakers where there was an english translation we could listen on. it was a bit hard to hear but it was ok. i guess its easier to read a bok so learn, but now i was there and that was intresting.
i had a short stay in amritsar and saw the golden temple and the flag cermony on the border to pakistan. i went from dharamshala eight in the morning with the buss to phatankoth where the train is going from, it took 3 hours to there and then to amritsar with the train (for the first time) and it was very okey. i had the worsest class of the "sleeping calsses" but for 3 hours it was no problem. i was sitting in the middle of 2 families i think, and with families i mean mother, father, children, granmother, cusines and so so.... it was all the time peole who came with chai and some kind of food in a big bucket, and they serve it on a pice of newspaper. the children where shy and very cute and the mothers tryed to get them to talk with me, i guess the mothers had their children as an excuse to get to talk with me. was very fun.
i arrived 7 pm and i had looked up the nerest hotel from the railway station when i was sitting on the train. hotel grand it called. the next day i eatedthe breakfast wich was included but it was not so special, but i took it. toast with butter and jam plus some kind of pannered vegetables...a bit spicy but it was okey. and coffe or tea to it. i was going to the golden temple with a tuktuk (three wheeled auto) 50ru. it was really extraordinary. i was walking around on the strees a bit and i bought some sweets they where selling. delicious (and i dident get bad after!).
later i was going with a netherland couple to the flagcermony at the border to pakistan wagha i think it called. it was more intressting to see than the golden temple! they where running with the flags (indian flag on indan siden an the pakistan flag on their side) and the military was loud and was angry all the time on all time. it was a great sight. i have never seen anything like it. and the pakistan side looked like whey had much much more fun and dancing and the wommen was much more colourful whan i thought. maybe a trip to pakistan next time? haha.
was just organising an hotel booking on a very nice place for me and flo when he is comming. and tomorrow i will just hangaround and book train tickets.
dharamsala
here is monks everywhere on the streets and much tourists everywhere. i have been in dharamsala for almost a week and its beutiful here. the trip to here was lesser fun. cheep but it taked long time and many changes. i was meeting a great woman, mireille from south africa and we have been sharing room until yesterday and we have been on adcentures all days long. first when arriving here i getted sick (nose problem just), so the first days i couldent do so much, was resting a lot. but then we where at a small walk to the villages in the near to a waterfall and two temples, next day we eated breakfast and we meeted a monk and two other guys who planned to follow the monk to a bigger monastery where a high lama where blessing the people. so we followed and got blessed there, was an amazing experience. we took our shoes and socks of and sat on the floor until the lamas came and first the monks in one of the sections where starting to go infrom to the high lamas and got a red band for having around the neck to protect. yesterday we where to another village, nadu. we where treeking a long time and up there, what an fantastik view! could see the himalaya with the snow tops and the eagles flying around in the sky. by the way the eagles are alsow flying around the whole city of dharamsala. on wednesday i will go on a speach of dalai lama, i was and registrated on the security office of dalai ilama some days ago and now i can go there and see the speach. 16 oct i have a ticket to amritsar where the golden temple is. and 18 oct im going back to delhi for meeting up with florian. i still have a bit pink colour in my back hair! it took long until it went away and i have been feeling sometimes like an animal cause in the beinning everyone looked at me and wonder why i was pink everywhere. pictures maybe come later today or tomorrow!mossoorie
yeah, now im in moossorie and i was going from rishikesh to dera dun for 29ru, i was waiting for the bus to mossoorie for some hours, was a bit lesser fun but the buss came and i arrived in mossoorie (35ru) in the evening around seven and it was raining. its was a bit lesser fun alsow to look for a room in the rain plus it was dark. i got a room for around 300ru and that was a bit to much for me but i dident want to continue looking. so today early in the morning i was lookibng around for a new room and i find one a bit cheeper 250ru with a much nicer view over the valley.
i have been walking around here in the area and its beutiful views but not so much more. i bought a pair socks, hand made in wholen, colourful and really warm.
tomorrow i will leav early in the morning for dera dunh and from there to dharamsala where dalai lama is living.
rishikesh
there is happenng so much all time here in india. now im in rishikesh and we have been here for 3 or 4 night i stop counted the days here. i event dont know for sure wich day it is.
so some days ago there was a festival here it was totoly crazy. first we just stand and look at all people who trowed mostly pink colour (alsow yellow and blue i think) at eachoder and danced to indian music with statues as the good ganesh and some other goods that i dont remember, was standing beside. we went down in another side for looking at the ganges water and then when we went up the festival blocked the entrence so we wanted to wait there for they passed, but then there was a boy who came to us and trowed rink colours on us! and then there came more and more people totoly maked us pink!! was so fun and then it dident matther if we cget more coloured so we followed and danced a bith with everyone. was amazing. the pink colour was for protect us against the evil.
today i was to a watherfall in the rainforest. we where walking fore somekilometers in the road and then in to a little little small road, climbing high up to the nice waterfall. was so amazing. and it was so clean water and we could see so much trees from there. dident see any animals beside some spiders and birds.
here in rishikesh there are monkeys everywhere. they are very agressive and we are very carefull for them. yesterday i was walking over a bridge to come to the other part of rishikesh and there was a man before me who had a plastic bag with cakes , the monkey saw it directly and jumped down and bite the bag and took the cookie bag and jumped back to the line on the bridge starting to eat directly. i have heard if you trying toi stop them they are biting. so if they try to take anything from me i just give it!
i think i will stay here fore some days more, its so wonderful here. peaceful and i think maybe tomorrow we are heading for another waterfall and maybe i will try yoga tomorow if i feel for it. probobly we will soon go for a dinnner in an organich tree resturang, we heard it should be very nice.
by the way we are staying in a place for 100ru (20kr) per person and the food cost around the same with drink and all. there is no alcohol allowed here in rishikesh, i miss a bit to drink a bear.
delhi!
nu ar jag i delhi alltsa. flyget har gatt bra och inge konstigheter an sa lange.
vi hangde pa flygplatsen tills det blev ljus och stotte pa ett par ungerska killar som ocksa skulle in till jarnvagen sa vi delade taxi for 250ru (!), vi letade tilsammans upp ett gueshouse for 400ru pa main bazar street, nara jarnvagen och till alla sevardigheter.
provade pa onion dosai pa en resturang, pankaka av ris med olika smaker och ett antal olika skalar med saser. gott, men lite starkt for mig, kanske vanjer mig. har vairt och kop ett indiskt telenummer, 1kr per minut hem till sverige! billigare an att ringa i sverige fran vissa telebolag! lagger in nummret nasta gang glomde det pa rummet.
dags for mer mat och kanske en kingfisher ol lite senare. stannar nog 1 dag till innan vi aker till rishkesh.
hemlös!
jag fick mitt visum i sistasekunden i måndags och köpte 2 tim senare en biljett med båt från gbg till kiel som gick samma kväll som mina snälla föräldrar körde mig till.
nu är jag alltså i hamburg och har en relaxing dag med flo, har lite smågrejer att fixa också. imorgon är det flyg till helsinke och därifrån till delhi - indien!
