søndag 1. februar 2009

Taj Mahal and another week in India






Time sure flyes by when you are out traveling! Since the last time you heard from us we've been out on quite a lot of new adventures. The creeper on the bus was forgotten pretty fast and we really liked Udaipur. Yes, we liked it so much that we postponed you bustickets and stayed two more days there. We made two new friends, who were from the city and they took us around on their motorbikes for two whole days and showed us the "real" city, not only the parts where tourists go. One og then was a hotel manager and was so nice to us, we stayed at his place for two days and ate at the restaurand and didn't get to pay anything when we left. We did not kow what to say, he was just amazing and such a good person. A tru friend that we will miss for a long time. He did not want us to say thank you cos friends dosn't do that here, so we developed a picture from one of our trips together and gave them each a card. They tookus to our bus and we left for Bundi, an even smaller place. And nothing happened on the bus :D We arrived in Bundi at 5 in the morning and all we really wanted to do was to sleep so we took the first and best hotel and ended up at a place with an Indian hotel; a whole in the ground... But we stayed for a night and survived! LOL The place was cool, cos the roms were in an old elephant stable so it was very high under the roof and you could see where the elephants had been fed and everything. The hotel was run by a family of three, and the daughter which was 3 is super adorable. We played with her and got to see how they made dinner. Most people here are sooo nice, and it's really gonna be weird and a bit sad to leave India. We will come back. We decided to go on a guided tour to the Monkey Tempel, where you can feed monkeys by hand. Our guide was something special! A charmer and player withour doubt, but super fun and a great guide who give you way more than you pay for. I mean, he took us to the temple but we didn't get back till late at night cos we showed us so much and really took the time. He followed us to the train station the next day and lets just say that I (Linn) and him got into a little arguement but we sorted it all out and we're good now. I've turned into a little brat at this trip! Some guys just doesn't take a no for an answer so I've larned to speak up for myself, but sometimes I might be a bit to bitchy... LOL
We left by train to Agra, which was more scary than the bus to us, cos now we didn't have any doors to shut so everyone can stare at you. I had the middle bunk, which is right at the hight of everyones head, but I pulled the sleeping bag over my head and tried to sleep. And no one interupted us, we were just a bit too paranoid when we lied there :p It just get that way here, cos so many stare at you, and we think they are gonna bother us hen we fall asleep. Both of us had our palm full of hindu phrases that we could say to make people go away but we didn't have to use them :)
And now that we are in Agra, we got to see the Taj Mahal :D I hope most people have heard of that one cos it is really a famous building all around the world... It was really special to be there, and hopefully we'll get some pictures uploded soon! This is the place where the palace in Aladdin, the cartoon is taken from. We were mad tired after going there so we went back to the hotel to sleep for a while. (Didn't sleep to good on the train) Our hotel dosn't host many international people, so the two boys in the reseption really want to talk with us so they came and asked us if we wanted tea, twice, but we were too tired and felt a bit bad. We ended up having dinner with them at the hotel later in the evening and now we are invited to a wedding and we have a house to stay at the next time we come. They just wanted to tell us about their culture andlear about ours. Super fun! Now our time at the computer is over... Next update will be from Thailand, where we go in 2 days :)

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