The Tranquil South

Hello once again,

We stayed some more in steaming hot Hampi (we're talking way over 40 degrees here( and even warmer in the sun ofc) where we had some great days exploring both the country side but also the ancient temples. We immediately found out that this city was much more cozy and down to earth then what we've experienced so far. Not any Indians taking photos of us with there cell phones (ok, during the festival they actually did, grr) or people asking where we were from and that. Because there was other tourists in this city!! No longer alone against many. In Hampi we got blessed by an elephant aswell!!

The last day in Hampi we crossed a small river to get the other side where we rented a scooter and rode around to different locations. One of them was a monkey temple - at the top of a mountain with only one access: a 600 stepway up the mountain. A nice view yes, but what a walk - and it was midday. 

Sadly we also encountered a drowning accident. When we crossed the river in the small boat three boys got caught in an underwater cave in the river. We saw two of them get saved, but the last one, we heard days after, was found longer down the river hours later. A rather dramatic incident. may he rest in peace.

We are now in Goa, where we've been for the last week. We are in a very small city called Palolem. Oh yeah, and we're living under palm trees in a coconut hut 50 meters from the ocean. Here we've experienced.... long nice days at the beach with sun, fresh fish and happy times. Last saturday we tried Silent Noise, which is a sort of out door club where you wear head phones - and there are different channels you can choose from. a channel with electronica, another with pop, another with more rock'n'roll. the smart thing is that your headphone shines the colour of the channel your listening to, so you can see if other are listening to the same as you. Anyway it's nice to come to a part of India where you can have a party.

Tomorrow we're relocating to another beach, Anjuna, which should also be pretty neat. We'll see.

Forza Lazio!

From North to South

Namaste,

I know my friends who travelled in India told me about the cows on the road - the staring people - the tasty food - the huge cliff between rich and poor - but why do I still feel like noone told me about this country? India has so much to offer it's insane.

Since last we've been on Tiger safari (yes, we saw a wild tiger) and visited Agra (yes, we saw the Taj Mahal), seen Varanasi (yes, we saw the Ganges) and everything is magical. After Varanasi we visited Hyderabad where we stayed almost a whole week as it was a nice break from the north (Hyderabad is a 29 hour train ride south of  Varanasi). From here we made a whole day trip out to a place called Nagharjuna Sagar where we saw waterfalls and old Buddha sanctuaries.

The big thing we've been experiencing these last weeks is that people are taking pictures of us - some come and ask - and some just try to hide it, but they are pretty bad at it.

Oh so much more to write, but it's all hard to write it all down.

We are now in Hampi -  magical little village hidden away by awesome rock formations, laid back people and everything. And today there was a huge festival where the locals threw bananas after an elephant (?!?!?)

We're staying here for some day and afterwards to either Kerala or Goa.

And what a magnificent match by Lazio yesterday, yes yes yes!!!

Forza Lazio

Summary!!

Ok, I havn't updated in a month. Yikes. So this update will be more or less a short summary.

The last two weeks of my time in Rome I got visits from my friends Oliver, Thomas, Mads and Nicolai, almost all arriving on different dates. We had some great times and met very nice people.

After Rome I had 48 hours in Denmark before heading for India! I was honoured be the fact that \my good friends picked me up in the airport. It was good to see my family back in Denmark although it was for a very short visit.

So now I've been in India for soon two weeks with my friend Laerke and feels like we've already been here for ages after all our encounters. We started out in New Delhi where we quickly escpaed from! We've got our own driver at the moment and he's driving us around Rajasthan to different places. It's a little expensive but we get to see much more then if we used the public transportation. This has been our itineray> New Delhi- Mandawa - Bikaner - Jaisalmer - Jodhpur - Udaipur - Pushkar - Jaipur. Now we're in Jaipur, the pink city. Our favouriote city has been Udaipur.

I only have five minutes left on the computer so it's goping fast. WE've experienced:

The worlds single Rat temple, where u walk in bare feet surrounded by rats.
Camel Safari with the night ending sleeping under the stars. Here we got the best quote so far: "Please Sir, your camel is ready"
Hundreds of forts from mainly the Mughal empire. Very impressive forts.
India winning the WC in cricket - the cities going CRAZY over this as cricket is the most important sport here.
Riding an Elephant!
Indians with crazy quatations such as 'No worry, no hurry, no rice and curry' - 'What can I do for you?Kathmandu!'
Cows, cows, and more cows!

That's all for now, sorry for all the undetalied descriptions, I hope I'll get more time later. We're having a great time and can't wait untill our next adventures - Tiger safari, Taj Mahal and the holy city Varanasi!!

Take care,

Aleksandar

Forza Lazio!