Taji… 5. März 2010

Wow, time passes – sometimes to slow and sometimes to fast.
Now to slow, or too fast… I cant decide!
We are now in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan and we are sooo tired. We got up at 4 am in the morning to catch the train at 5.10 from Agra to Jaipur.
But before:
we arrived in Dehli and first of all couldnt find something to eat – that is a really serious problem for us! It was Holi, which is a big festival here and everything was closed! For 2 days!!! But it had also some advantages: first off all we could see holi! Its colorful because people throw colored powder on everything but mostly people and even 5 days later we see people with still pink hair, fingers, t-shirts etc. You maybe saw the pic Second of all the streets were really empty and that was nice! No horning alllll the time!
So after that we saw the really Delhi with traffic and noise and … we went to the Bahai Temple, which was awesome! Have you ever heard about Bahai? Its a philosophy or religion (or whatever you want to call it), where all gods are the same and peace is the most important thing! Sounds very very appealing to me! And the temple was amazing: the form is a lotus flower!
Then we saw the Red Fort which was nice, but after seeing the Agra Fort not so impressive anymore.
But in total Delhi was just to loud and full and … Well, we were happy to get out there!
On Wednesday we took the bus (only 2 hours to Agra… yes yes, it took us 6!!!) to Agra and saw the beautiful and absolutely amazing Taj Mahal! It is difficult to describe, so you better come and see it yourself
A day later we went to the Fort and that was also really nice. And you have a perfect view to the Taj form there!
Thats basically all what we did there, and now we are here – in Jaipur! Our time is really running, especially when you know how many places are still to see in just 3 weeks (or 4 4 me!)…
Ah, one thing – in Agra we took a Bicycle-Riksha instead of the normal ones. It was hard to see the man working so hard and we were just sitting there and relaxing. The bikes are realllly bad. The chain even broke (hehe, we should have had a lighter breakfast I guess… )! But its the mans living and at least we didnt pollute the air… Still – poor guy!
The food here is really amazing. Especially after Thaifood, which we both dont like that much! Ah, the naan and the dosas and the currys and masalas… everything is so delicious! I can eat indian food all day long without problems! Well, breakfast is not that good though.
What else…
- cows eat trash
- we saw camels
- women carry stuff (like wood, bins etc.) on their head (crazy)
- cars horn alll the time (even more often)
- saris are sooo beautiful (I want one!!!)
- more naan for everybody!
- we saw a goat – black with brown dots and white with black dots… on the same animal…