Sunday 25 March 2012

Nothing exciting to say!

Stephen is in Korea so not much is happening here at the moment.
I'm going to the gym, coming home, eating, sunbathing, and sleeping then it starts all over again!
But I'm packing and preparing to the amazing trip we are doing starting the 2nd of April-11 of April to Nepal!
We are going to do some safari from the backs of elephants, walking safari, washing and taking care of the elephants, sleeping in a tent in the middle of the jungle, do some horse riding, flying over the Everest and so much more!
It is going to be so much fun!

Here are some pictures from last week and weekend.



 




Sunday 18 March 2012

Carro's visit, Varanasi, Delhi, Agra and Jaipur.

For the last two weeks my friend Caroline from Sweden has been here!
It has been so much fun and I was sad to see her leave!
She came on the Monday and I showed her Delhi that week, we even celebrated Holi were you throw colour on eachother!
On the Saturday me, Stephen and Caroline went to see Varanasi.
It was really strange but in a nice way, the people who lives there do the same thing every day, they go to the river and pray, swim, wash and even burn their dead loved ones and spreading their aches in the river.
We lit candles and let them float away on the water, listened to the chanting from the priests and saw big fired where the dead people got cremated.
Me and Carro also did the morning tour on the boat to see the morning ritual, they washed them self, went for a swim, did yoga, spread the aches over the river and prayed to the sun.
It was a very dirty place but I am glad to have seen it as it is very special to these people.

We came back to Delhi on the Sunday and me and Carro went to Jaipur on the Tuesday. We flew there and did all the touristy things you are suppose to do,but it was great! I haven't seen Carro for two years and it was just fun to catch up and show her my new country!
We then took the train on Thursday morning very early to Agra and went to see the Taj Mahal and the Red fort. On the Friday we went up to the abandoned city of Fatepur Sikri, we choose the right /wrong day to do this depending on how you see it as there were a pilgrimage from Agra going the same direction as us. So there where a lot of people on the streets walking, singing and dancing, so it took us a little longer but it was fun to watch them.
We spent the afternoon by the pool and then we took the train back to Delhi in the evening.
Stephen left  last night to go t Korea for two weeks and Caroline left me this morning!
So I am all by myself!

Here are some great pictures!

Happy Holi!

Me and Caroline after celebrating.

Varanasi.
Candles in the river, to remember the lost ones.



In the morning along the river.
Morning rituals.

Beautiful sunrise.


Old Delhi from the roofs.

Spice market.

Girly cocktails in Jaipur.


Elephants in the Amber fort.

Carro in the garden of Amber fort.


Jaipur.

Elephant in Jaipur celebrated Holi!



Agra and the Taj Mahal.


Sunday 11 March 2012

photos from Khajuraho!

tiger:)

Kama Sutra temple


One of the more advanced positions.




Pigs
Stephen taking pictures of the temples
Washing themselves.
Not so friendly monkey!
Cool Stephen!
Going on a Tiger hunt!
The poor male peacock is trying to get some attention!
Us in front of the "waterfall"
The big bull, it was huge! So much bigger than the female once and they are the size of a horse!
You might think this is a photo of the cow but it is not, note the spotted deer in the background!! The cow would not move!
The second tiger! Sorry bad picture!
On the way to the safari park.











Tuesday 6 March 2012

Khajuraho and Safari!

After a week of not knowing if we could go away on a trip we booked back in December we submitted our passports to renew our visa's on Thursday afternoon and realised we could go away.  In the end the planing was not the best as  we had Harry and Lyndsey coming to stay one night before going back home and my friend Carro arrived yesterday while we were still away!

So on Friday morning we took off for Khajuraho and arrived early afternoon, we then just sat around the pool,had a drink and then in the evening we had a light and sound show at the Karma Sutra temples are. It was interesting...

In the morning we went to see the temples in the daylight  and they are pretty impressive! In the afternoon we went to the Raneh Falls in Panna Wildlife Reserve, which is an old volcano crater. I was expecting water tho but there were none!
We walked around it and it is pretty spectacular but would be even more so with water in it! They didn't say it was gonna be dry!  Supposedly during the Monsoon it is crazy.
We then decided to go on a little rowing boat to see some crocodiles (we did see one, but it swam away very fast) it was a nice half an hour just going around spotting birds.
On the way there we had a small Innova safari and saw deer, antelopes and even jackals.

On the Sunday we spent 6 hours in the car to go to the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. It was amazing , after only half an hour we saw a tiger!!!! She was laying down by a water hole, it was really difficult to see her, but when we did she was stunning!!! she got bored of us after a while and walked away. So we sped off in our jeep to try to see an other one! After a lot of looking and searching and the guides talking to each other we just decided to go around looking at birds, wild boar, spotted dear etc, and then we saw a big male one as well, he was laying down behind a fence because he was rescued with his two sisters when they where 6 month old and their mother died, so they are in an fenced area ( 5x5 km, so still quite a large) area just to teach them to hunt for themselves. He was now doing so well that he was a little fat as he did not walk far enough, so soon he was getting released into the wild proper.  So we saw him just laying around and he was so pretty as well!

We then decided to go back to where the saw the first one but she was nowhere to be found and we headed back to camp.

Then we had an other 5 hours of horrible driving in the dark before we reached our hotel! So scary!

On the Monday we just relaxed around the pool again and had a drink before heading home to Delhi and to see my friend!


Pictures will come....