India : Delhi

After Holy i tryed to get as fast as possible out of pushkar I spend there now already one month, everything took much more time than expected, but it was a good time with some very nice people and moments full of colour. I took a sleeperbus to Delhi and reached there the next morning. Basicly a comfortable way to travel, but I spelled water all over my bed and for sure it´s way too short :-) I had to spend one day in Delhi, luckily I met a guy how was over to go to Manali from Pushkar, so we spend the day together. Dropped our bags in a travelagency and went in the craziness of old Delhi. In the early morning it was quite nice and peaceful, but after breakfast it got more and more crowded. We spend some time in Choldi Chowk a huge basar, with very narrow dark streets overpacked with tiny shops and people. You can find probably everything there, kind of well sorted if you know where to go..... thats the difficult part, to know where to go. There are squares, full of watches in every shape and clour, streets just for tee, a bicyclemarket, some areas full of candles or soap. It was like a bee house and after a few hours I was very tired and exhausted. So we went to the red fort an extremly huge building with different palaces inside, an unesco tourist attraction. We preferred to stay outside in the shadow away from all this people.

This morning I arrived in Kasol Parvartivalley. I wanted to go straight up to the mountains to pulga, but the road is closed for busses at the moment. Here is still a lot of snow, and the road conditions are not the best, so i have to take a cheep tomorrow. Spend the day with some sleep, it was hard to get some during the busride, the guy next to me felt sick from the ride and was vomiting half the way... Anyway. I really enjoy to be back here, even it´s a bit cold it feels like the Indian version of coming home.

first I took a bath in the hot springs and a dip in parvatiriver, nice way to ARRIVE to a place.

the Mountais from Kasol riverside, somewhere up there is Pulga

Rivermagic

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Namaste,

I try to start a blog here, mainly to share some of my impressions of India, the people, landscapes and beautiful moments.

I had my flight back to india on the 6th of February. I left the good cold Germany after a long and dark winter. It was great to meet my family and friends again. I had the great opportunity to chance the view towards my experiences while traveling the last year. While traveling it was the feeling of constant change sometimes more sometimes less :) To be back in known sorounding mirroed the chances happend. It´s great to feel expanding, growing, flowing <3

I was lucky that a friend, how i was traveling with for a while last year, picked my up form the airport. It´s a bit crazy in Delhi and much easier to find you way trough all this chaotic mess with a second paair of eyes.

a guy selling kiwis from his bicycle, he had a funny tool what he also used to keep cows away

We had to spend the day in Delhi because our train was leaving in the evening. Left our Bags in the trainstation and explored a litte part of Old Delhi. Been sitting in a Sightempel full of gold and mirrors crazy people singing :) A guy invited us to taste some food, we tried to follow him trough the small overcrowded gaps to sweet and spicy impression.

After a 15h ride in the sleeper train, where I did´t got a bed or a seat, because we booked the ticked on the same day, sometimes they sold out 2-3 month before, we arrived to Pushkar.
A beautiful small city around an old lake what is said to be created by Brahma - the god of creation. In Pushkar is the only temple for brahma in India. (Maybe also one of a very few)

beautiful Sunset in the dessert around Pushkar

this small kind of squirrels are very funny and interested in everything around them

Suddenly i met a friendy from Würzburg traveling with his bicyle from Chennai to Delhi. We just run in each other at the main market in Pushkar. Did´t know from each other to be around. Spend a few very nice days together. Renting a Motorbike and driving around the dessert.

Axel and my with our bikes ;-)

Tryed to cover myself against the sun... I´ve been red afterwards anyway

A guy invited us to sit for a chai in his village. We got kind of buffalomilk with massala instead of chai.

We´ve been invited by a guy overtaking us on the motorbike, to follow him to his house and his family. Within a minute a lot of people gathered around us and keept talking and smiling with and about us.

The ladys didn´t understand at all why somebody could do something like this to the hair.

They tried to talk to us, but it was quite difficult because non of them spoke english and our hindi is pretty poor. So we comunicated with hands, feet and a lot of smiles. We´ve been invited for chai but got buffalomilk with massala (a mix of spices) and a lot of it. It´s hard to stay with just one cup, even if you´re not sure if you like it, we got more and more till the bowl was empty.