The rest of our time in Goa was spent with our happy crew, swimming and lazing on the beach and sharing meals that stretched out for many hours. What a joy it was to laugh heartily with six, seven, eight people! Although it was sad to go our separate ways, it's nice to know we have friends in far away places, making the world a little smaller. We left for Mumbai in high spirits, filled with new year's rwsolutions, recharged and ready to begin again.
Mumbai: what a cool city! Compared to the rest of India, it's clean and modern, sophisticated and charming.. Like the New York of Asia! Formerly Bombay (when it was a Portuguese colony), Mumbai is characterized by grand old colonial architecture and lush tropical vegetation, wide cobblestone streets and awesome black and yellow taxi cabs from the fifties. We were glad to meet Sarah here rather than in New Delhi, which by comparison is a dense, medieval shitstorm. We spent a few happy days in Mumbai and then whisked away to other corners of the Indian state of Maharashtra, our first amble through southern India.
Where did we go? First, to Ellora and Ajanta, where enormous Buddhist and Jain temples were once carved into granite cliffs, hundreds of years ago. It was pretty astounding, seeing the remnants of all that work of human hands upon solid rock. We scrambled all over the hillsides and along the gorges, into secret stone rooms where people once lived and worshiped. Sarah wasn't yet accustomed to some of the more peculiar habits of Indian people, like sneakily photographing white people or urinating in every unmanned corner in sight. Boy was she in for a surprise!
We headed further south and spent a few days in Hampi, which was dream-like and otherworldly. In Hampi, more ruins from bygone eras rise up from a golden landscape strewn with gigantic boulders. Rice paddies, pebbles, towering rock slabs, mountains and rivers... We rented mopeds and rode through all of it. Hampi felt like a sort of timeless place-- even the sunlight seemed to stand still, like a long afternoon. We didn't spend as much time as we would have liked (feels like we're really racing the calendar lately!) but I made a secret promise to myself that I would return again in the future. More and more, I'm finding, you can't make that promise about too many places you go.
10:37PM
Mumbai, India
Mumbai: what a cool city! Compared to the rest of India, it's clean and modern, sophisticated and charming.. Like the New York of Asia! Formerly Bombay (when it was a Portuguese colony), Mumbai is characterized by grand old colonial architecture and lush tropical vegetation, wide cobblestone streets and awesome black and yellow taxi cabs from the fifties. We were glad to meet Sarah here rather than in New Delhi, which by comparison is a dense, medieval shitstorm. We spent a few happy days in Mumbai and then whisked away to other corners of the Indian state of Maharashtra, our first amble through southern India.
Where did we go? First, to Ellora and Ajanta, where enormous Buddhist and Jain temples were once carved into granite cliffs, hundreds of years ago. It was pretty astounding, seeing the remnants of all that work of human hands upon solid rock. We scrambled all over the hillsides and along the gorges, into secret stone rooms where people once lived and worshiped. Sarah wasn't yet accustomed to some of the more peculiar habits of Indian people, like sneakily photographing white people or urinating in every unmanned corner in sight. Boy was she in for a surprise!
We headed further south and spent a few days in Hampi, which was dream-like and otherworldly. In Hampi, more ruins from bygone eras rise up from a golden landscape strewn with gigantic boulders. Rice paddies, pebbles, towering rock slabs, mountains and rivers... We rented mopeds and rode through all of it. Hampi felt like a sort of timeless place-- even the sunlight seemed to stand still, like a long afternoon. We didn't spend as much time as we would have liked (feels like we're really racing the calendar lately!) but I made a secret promise to myself that I would return again in the future. More and more, I'm finding, you can't make that promise about too many places you go.
10:37PM
Mumbai, India
finally popular
S&G in the town of Bedrock
sup Mumbai
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