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  Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Hello peeps,

We are still alive, I know its been about a month since we updated this last but we have been off the radar in most places......

So, we are about 6 weeks in and about to finish our India shenanigans.... We left you last in Goa after chilling on the beach. Now we are full on culture vultures with the overload of temples and forts dribbling out of our noses.....

after our last update we stayed in Goa for a while and stayed at beaches across the whole of the state... the further north we got the shittier it turned with packed beaches and overcrowded sea. Needless to say we stayed mostly in the ridiculously chilled south, more sunsets and dolphins.....

Lu at Taj

. its a hard life., at some beaches we had the beach to ourselves for as far as the eye can see, very cool.

We met a good bunch of peeps in one of the smaller beaches so stayed for a few days, odd having a game of cards with 7 different nationalities at the table, but a great laugh.
We had to force ourselves to leave otherwise we would have stayed for months.

after the beaches we headed inland 7 hours on a sleeper train to Hampi, which was loads of fun. Packed carriages with touts selling everything you could think of, the chai was especially good.
Hampi is an ancient ruined city with some temples dating back a thousand years, we chanced upon a legend of a rickshaw driver named Ramesh who ended up being our guide for 3 days.
Turned out he was studying history so new about everything and took us to some places tourists just don't go. We went to a tiny temple on top of a mountain where a guy had been there for 6 years! the thing is the temple is about 10 foot round and formed beneath a rock that leaves around 4 foot of space, so now he is a hunchback... not sure all that praying payed off???

Anyway, after that we flew up to Delhi (Really smoggy and stank

home in canolim Goa

! but still worth a day wandering).  some travelers we bumped into in hampi told us about a hotel which we ended staying at and using to book a driver and tour for the whole of rajasthan.

So for the last 13 days we have been hopping from city to temple to wildlife park to fort to city and so on. seen sooooooo much and  seems like we have been on the road for months! driving though the desert and small towns makes it all worth it though, its really beautiful here. All the people we have bumped into have been ridiculously friendly and most want to take photos with you, and the kids, no matter how poor have got massive smiles on their faces. Heartbreaking and amazing to see at the same time

Some highlights........ Getting to the Taj mahal at 5:30 am for sunrise, first through the gate so got 'the Diana' pic before hundreds of people flooded in.........on safari, following a female tiger for an hour whilst she stalked deer, we were only people in hotel that even saw one. some people Had been out for 6 days, we went on a 3 hour safari, hee hee........Lu getting swamped by loads of teenage Indian boys as they had never seen a white chick before..............the forts at Jodpur, the biggest and best of the lot!.......Lu getting washed by an elephant........just driving through it all

elephants washing each other

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So we now have our culture fix for a while and desperate to get back to the beach and find some waves... Tomorrow we fly to Bombay and onto srilanka where the surf is pumping.. woo hooooooooooooo

speak soon

mahooosive love and girly kisses
Gaz and Lu
'The hedge Monkeys'

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