Oh my goodness guys, I am so freaking excited!!!!! as well as totally freaked out hahah I finally found a train that was available and reasonably priced (for India standards) to go to Rishikesh!!!! ohhh this just makes me so happy and it will be at the end of my trip, so I will come home totally relaxed and serene! (I hope). Rishikesh, for those who don't know, is the most famous destination for Yogi's. It is where the Beatles took their spiritual journey in 1968 when they studied with Maharishi Mahes. So yes that is the main reason I want to go, but also I want to learn how to meditate, and fully relax. I will be staying at a nice hotel which offers yoga twice daily, morning and evening as well as meditation classes and massages etc.... I also plan to do some nature walks and perhaps even a Jungle Safari!! (farrari safari maybe?? Lol only my cousins, Lars and Hannah will get that one). Ohhhhh goodness am I just jumping for joy right now!!!
I will be leaving on this journey bright and early Tuesday morning and will return late Thursday night. I am a bit nervous about the journey getting there, hoping I can make my way ok. I will take the train from New Delhi (ugghhhh!!!) to Haridwar. Then I have to take the local bus from Haridwar to Rishikesh. Then I have to find a taxi from there and go a couple Kilometers to Ram Jhula. Then will have to walk across the bridge to the hotel... PHEW!!! I will for certain be gripping my handy language book which Val gave me (thank you val!!!!!!!!) to help me with the necessary phrases. I know enough already but just in case!
Anywho, as you can clearly see, I am like super super happy right now. I feel like such a big girl for arranging all of this myself! hahaha mainly because it really wasn't that easy to do. It is definitely rather difficult trying to arrange a trip in a country which you are not familiar with, not knowing where things are in proximity to one another and making sure you understand everything ok so that you don't end up somewhere not remotely close to where you wanted to be and are then stuck. Know what I mean??
So on a slightly less frantic note, I am meeting up with Anita this evening to have coffee or tea and chit chat, so that is going to be nice. I believe now I am going to walk over to Choko'la (my new fav cafe) and read for a bit... I had attempted an outing earlier but when I went to get cash all of the ATM's were down... that is something I am finding happens frequently here are various power outages. At least a couple times a day the power goes out for anywhere from a minute to 15 minutes. Not entirely sure why this happens, but Karen (Jim's wife) told me that what also happens is the link from American credit cards or debit cards to here sometimes goes down so you can't get cash out.... which is slightly annoying. I was on my way to go to Khan market to go find a tailor to get my dress made for Jessica's wedding!! :-) oh well I shall try this outing again tomorrow. Gives me something to do for tomorrow. I am also slightly sad, Raj left last night to move on to the rest of his travels in India. So now, it is just me, the last one of the group left in Delhi. However, Raj and I were talking about trying to get a reunion trip pulled together with everyone sometime next summer. IVHQ may have let us all down, but the one positive thing out of this whole thing was that we all got to meet each other and become great friends which hopefully will last a long time! and we are all over the world, so whenever we travel we will have someone to stay with! Very cool indeed.
Ok, well so long! hope everyone has a great day!
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