Waking up in the holy city of India Varanasi at 4am with a head cold certainly isn’t my cup of tea, however Varanasi was an interesting site to be seen at dawn.
Our final destination Mau on the other hand was a complete and utter dive and lets just say it wasn’t the anything like Maui of Hawaii. Our travels today were less than usual as all the crew and us rickshawstar’s were stuffed from the past ten days on the road. Splitting our day into two parts worked well for all, with an early wakeup and mid morning siesta before we were to get back on the road.
Today was special to me as it was a place I’ve always wanted to travel to and a destination I’ve always seen in the travel brochures and heard about from those who have travelled to India. Varanasi a holy place with an abundance of noisy atmosphere, pollution, pilgrims and tourists. All with the surreal 5th Element movie backdrop or something you’d seen in a children’s animation movie. Noice, different and un usual. Everything about this place was special in itself, cows standing lonesome in the middle of a rundown riverside building, the cremations going down as if a baker was cooking his days worth of bread, old men and women preparing themselves for their next life or just exfoliating their body with the rivers muddy rocks.
After a much needed rest we hit the frog and tod to our next destination, Mau. Which is actually far worse than a staying in a dumpster for the night, at least a dumpster would have had alcohol readily available at the end of our working day and probably less bugs and gum on the floor. We were also treated to a rock hard mattress and blood stained sheets to sleep in. Mau. Yuck! Never again. Note to self for next time, Must bypass Mau.
All up a memorable day but we all can’t wait to get out of Mau.
0 comments:
Post a Comment