Hotel Saras Bharatpur

... De totes maneres, un s'adona que aquests mogols, descendents dels exercits del Gengis Khan que van conquerir el nord de la India, en els dos segles que van exercir la sobirania es van dedicar a construir palaus i forts de dimensions colossals i d'una majestuositat impactant. Al costat seu, els forts del Rajastan, malgrat que tambe impressionen, son com mes modestos, mes intims, mes recollits.

... be able to set our own pace and see the things we wanted, but it meant that we were constantly harassed by cycle rickshaw riders who kept telling us that it was a very long walk and surely we would prefer a ride. It was a bit off putting to be in a nice national park and still be hassled. Eventually, once we got far enough in, we did get some peace and quiet. The ...

... villages, some of them seemingly without electricity, where people sit round electric lamps or open fires and a barber gives a haircut by candlelight. The road is being widened and we regularly bounce around a new, unsurfaced section. At 7.45 we arrive in the small wedding town and pass the bridegroom's procession as it assembles, the groom in traditional Indian dress sitting on a horse. Reaching the large restaurant, where the festivities are being ...

... and waved the few off who were heading out to the bird park (I had no interest in seeing it)... I hung out by the pool and chilled out with a few of the others before it got too hot. We met in the courtyard for a pre-dinner beverage which was welcoming... Dinner i had the mutton and it was great -- am missing meat as well.. We all heading off to bed pretty early as tomorrow is a bit exciting -- we head off to Agra -- home of the Taj!

... be on his best behaviour. What we hadn't anticipated was the sight of literally dozens of Sikhs, many wearing golden scarves, a number brandishing ceremonial swords, racing hell for leather down the platform in an attempt to secure the best seats for their journey to Amritsar. An amazing spectacle, almost worth the ticket price alone. We had been warned to wait for a tour rep to ease our passage through the station and it's lucky we did as the porters immediately initiated a heated ...

... and if anyone goes the only time to see the Taj is in the morning. We literally walked to the gate, got frisked for a second and walked on through. Besides some other tourists, there was basically no one there, so we had an almost unobstructed view right down the axis to the centre of the Taj Mahal. It was completely surreal. You see it on post cards, in movies, on travel posters, but when you turn the corner and look through the gate ...

... unos vecinos practiquen el Hinduismo, otros el Islam, otros el Budismo, otros sean Sikh, otros sean Jain y otros mas sean Cristianos. Y luego entramos en las subdivisiones, ya que sabemos que los primeros tienen un sistema de castas, y los segundos estan en guerra constante entre shiitas y sunis (con sus propias subdivisiones cada uno), y bueno, los cristianos tenemos a los catolicos, evangelistas, testigos, bautistas, mormones, etc. Ah, y el otro dia nos encontramos ...

... Am flughafen wartet natuerlich niemand auf mich nur das Hotel habe ich schon reserviert und Delhi nervt wie eh und jeh. Ich fahre so schnell ich kann nach Agra weiter und schaue mir an was man in Indien anschauen muss, das Taj Mahal. Und ich bin wirklich ueberwaeltigt. Es ist ein Indien wie ich es bis jetzt noch nicht kennen gelernt habe. Ein idylischer Garten umgibt eine architektonische Meisterleistung, ein Traum realisiert von 20.000 Arbeitern ...

... quelli con il meccanismo mentale da partenza intelligente, anche io e Lenka ci siamo fatti strappare il carissimo biglietto di ingresso (15 euro a cranio) alle 6h30 di mattina. L'allegro gruppetto smart del quale facevamo parte, perň, non ha calcolato che alle 6h30, ad inizio gennaio, č notte qui ad Agra! Cosě, al buio, abbiamo indovinato la strada che portava al Taj, oltre una porta di accesso che č un monumento a lei sola. Oltre quella... beh, devo ammettere che anche nell ...

... se z něj američan, který tu zije sedm let jako mnich chrámu Krisny - hlavní chrám Krisny ve Vrindavanu, chrám, ke kterému náhodou patří ta nase ubytovna. Nechci se tu rozepisovat o hinduistických bozstvech - je to vsechno neuvěřitelně slozité - třeba to, ze bůh Krisna se můze rozdělit na 16108 (tusím) bohů Krisnů, úplně stejných a přitom úplně jiných, kazdý můze být ve stejnou dobu na jiném místě ...