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Journée hors de la foule
... Patricya ...
Depuis le début du voyage que je vis dans un monde très différent auquel je suis habitué au Canada, ce n'est pas la nourriture que je suis habitué, pas les même normes d'hygiène, pas les mêmes odeurs, pas les mêmes bruits. En fait le silence, n'existe pas ici. J'ai besoin de mes repères d'occidentaux, quoique je refuse de manger chez Mcdo, j'ai envie de m'y retrouver, juste pour être en pays connue.
Les déjeuner n'existe ...
Ghats and Dogs !
... the wrong side of the road,
swerving to miss people, cattle, dogs, other vehicles , mainly big trucks....... finally go to out hotel and its lovely . We had a hot shower after we checked in. Our room 117 is lovely and modern , small but perfect, we have decided to stay 3 nights.
We decided to go to the train station here to book more trains - Agra and Jaipur, the booking office was so good, its for tourists so no mayhem, we got the trains we wanted and it was easy. ...
The Holy City
... traffic was nowhere near as busy. One thing we did notice throughout our time there was the roaming cows who rule the road and seem to secretly like annoying drivers...Sarah found this hilarious and they kept her occupied on the drive - they really do have a very strong and unique stink though!
Our Hotel had a very heritage feel with a great rooftop restaurant. It faced right onto the Ganges which was great but sadly the stories ...
Varanasi Part 1 - The Raw and the Ritual
... interesting. No one takes on a cow. At one spot, our single-file group, a scooter, a goat and two kids were at a stand-still behind a cow (our trusty Felix was well behind). The child pushed the goat into the cow and got him to move. Clever.
The Funeral Pyre:
At another ghat, a funeral pyre has been burning from the same flame since the time of Shiva, legend says.
To Hindus, this is the ...
Wo Wo it's the sound of the Police....
... train yesterday evening, sleeper class. This was actually much better than AC3, it's mainly Indian people and is so much cheaper, they obviously are quite grotty but i think thats all part of it, there were some tourists to make friends with to. We stopped at a station and a monkey there came right up to the window and almost got in with us. Today I have learnt that Laura in Hindi roughly translates as dick. I think India us trying to tell me ...
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