India Pt. II

Wow, updating this thing has really been much more difficult than I had intended. I know I was saying that on the last blog, but now it has really gotten hard. I have fallen way behind in editing my photos, but I guess that is a good thing in the long run!
After celebrating Holi in Jaipurk, we made our way down to a town called Bundi. Bundi is a sleepy little Brahmin blue town with a 16th century palace sitting on a hillside above it. The palace was overtaken by monkeys and bats in the last few hundred years and at sunset the bats stream out of the castle by the thousands and head into the surrounding forests to feed. Bundi was a great town to sit back and enjoy the slow life for a few days.
After Bundi, it was off to Jodhpur, the actual famous blue town of India. Jodhpur was great, after enjoying the slow way of life in Bundi we found ourselves just wanting to return to the tourist free chill town. A few days later we headed up to Bikaner to check out the self proclaimed “8th wonder of the world” Karni Mata, The Rat Temple. There is actually a temple where the people of this town worship rats (who are reincarnations of their relatives). To be fair they are more like mice, but the first time you walk in the place it really spokes you to have rats running across your feet. It’s also a wee bit scary to think that you are in India, and god only knows what kind of diseases these things are carrying. That being said, I still thought it would be a good idea to drink from the milk that they are offered, it is supposed to bring you good luck, I’ll let you know if it works.
We met up with my buddy Matt in Delhi, did some sightseeing and were off to our next adventure…
The pictures are still filtering in but coming in a few days (sorry Mom and Dad) Kathmandu, Nepal. Spent a few days in the capital and then a few days out in the villages. When we get to Dharmasala in 4-5 days I am going to put up another good sized blog with everything from Nepal.

Namaste