Mumbai hustle and bustle, modern Goa and now to rural, beautiful and conservative Hospet!!
...So far we have reached Hospet and are slowly working our way down the South of India...the weather is getting hotter and hotter and slowly we are melting.
Goa was amazing and we stayed in a great resort...visited a spice farm and portugese inspired church and temple...Goa was not what we expected, it felt like we were in Portugal not India!! We enjoyed long beach walks and managed to haggl e people down to next to nothing! I think they were not expecting that of a white chica and a NRI...go us!!
After a four beach hour walk and on return to the resort we decided to trek back to the beach in search of Rogers...The owner promised us some special veggie treats to our taste...The only problem was the dark, we both set out with torches like a scene from a horror movie and on the way I got scared by a German tourist also walking the same way, he was lovely and apologetic for making me jump so we asked him to walk us to t he beach. After an amazing dinner on the sea front, with mocktails , music and candle light we h eaded back almost pooing our pants at the thought of walking back in the dark. On the way...10 metres down a dog decided to follow us... (Dogs are everywhere and are friendly but we have not had our rabies shot so got a little nervous)...Running into the next restaurant and bar a women laughing at our plee sent her 12 year old son to walk us home...he chased after the dog and we laughed so much we almost wet our pants the whole way back...to be honest I think I did a little bit!
After going pretty insane of no communication and talking to ourselves, receiving all your advice to not talk to strangers we finally cracked and met 3 guys from the UK...We ventured to the north of Goa and had a brill time clubbing till the early hours of the morning ( Girls get free entry and drinks in clubs in Goa- can't be bad!!!).
After 1 hour of sleep we had an epic 8 hr journey to Badami (named after the almond due to colour of the stones used in buildings and histor i c monuments- just a bit of history for u)...I am now a historian...be warned all those who speak to me on my return I will spout random facts!!...
By the time we reached Badami we were feeling very sick and the lack of sleep had definitely caught up with us... Dinner and bed was all we could manage and dinner consisted of two mouthfuls before feeling nauseous.
Early morning today we headed out on our long 5 hour journey to Hospet, visiting the Badami caves and temples on the way...learnt a lot but could not really understand the tour guide and often gave him blank looks which he did not read, his information on the Karma Sutra made us look a bit uncomfortable which he mistook for not understanding and decided to repeat group sex repeatedly very loudly...We need to work on our facial expressions so people can read what we mean!...How embaressing!
On our way we visisted a local school to distribute pens and biscuits...We are in love with the kids here they put us to shame! Along the way to Hospet we distributed food to the poor kids, I almost got attacked by starving adults but our driver Pradip is a hero and soon put things right.
We now have arrived in our hotel in hospet...well more like a shack (a beautiful shack none the less with the most amazing scenic view that is undesirable)..No A/C for two nights...in words of Gloria Ganor we will survive...
The sights and views in Hospet are beautiful...I dont think our photos can do it justice...Photos coming soon to a computer near you..
Over and out...
Poonam & Saskia!!
xXx
Love to all our Family and Friends...
Don't miss us too much..I know it is hard!! :)
