Bal Samand Lake Palace
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A day in the slum with the beautiful children
Hi everyone, it's Fiona. It's been a long, hot and sweaty day for everyone here! My story is a day in the slum with the children. Priscilla, Asenla, Cathy and I took two sessions today, this morning with the small children, and this avo with the older children. We started each 2 hour session with music and dancing which all the children loved and …
The Sticks
... carried out.
Next stop was a family compound where two women showed us how to grind millet into flour to make chapattis. Every morning they grind for two hours to make enough flour for the day. It was really hard work, I couldn't even do it for two minutes! Then we sat down and they gave us some tea and a tiny bit of opium! Opium is illegal in India but Bishnoi people use it in ceremonies, if they are ill or just to get through the day. Our guide ...
Jodhpur - Bláa borgin
... og síðan fór hún bara, maðurinn kemur síðan til mín og segir að hún vildi ekki nudda mig þar sem frændi hennar fékk ekki að nudda Gabriel þannig að ég fékk ekkert nudd mér til mikillar ánægju. Við skoðum meira eftir að Gabriel var búinn í nuddinu en eins og ég sagði þá er þetta frekar brjáluð borg og var fínt að vera þarna í tvo daga því við vorum frekar spennt að fara til ...
The Blue City
One of the things that I want to do in India is to go on a cooking course. I had been told about Spice World in Jodphur. On my morning walk up to to Merangarh Fort I managed to find this little shop purely by accident. Unfortunately they were fully booked for the next few days but Mrs Kumar was so friendly and we had a great chat and spent some time explaining all the different spices she had.
Wandered up ...
The Blue City (kind of...)
... the Sandar Government museum and Umaid Gardens were in the same place as the palace, we asked where they were to find out they were miles away. So we jumped onto another tuk-tuk for 100 IR and off we went again. The gardens them self were home to a zoo; the animals in which all seemed to be very well cared for except debatably the most impressive animal in there the tiger, which was extremely skinny :( We pottered round here for about an hour, ...
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