10.05.2014
India is so
different… So different. It is hard to understand the people and culture. There
are some very open and friendly people, all very interested in us with respect
for Germany (I guess because of the economy). All tell us, that India is
changing too, if I see all the children coming to me, smiling, asking me
questions like where I come from and what I do in India. But there are so many
people. I can not imagine the amount of Indian people. There are always people
everywhere. They lay on the street, in the train and bus stations… simply
everywhere. It just seems to be the most normal thing to lay next to cow, dog
and human shit, all kind of rubbish and a smell, which I didn´t get used to
even after a week, and rest or sleep.
For us it
was a very hard time in Rishikesh and not like we imagined.
We read about a nice Ashram close to the river, with food, yoga, meditation and a ceremony every night included. But normally you need a reservation weeks before. As it is low season we thought to give it a try and went to it with a Russian guy we met in the bus from Haritwar to Rishikesh. The way from the bridge, where the Tuk-Tuk left us, to the other side of the Ganga was hell for me. Lukas and I already got bit problems with the gastro-internal system in Delhi. But my heavy loaded backpack and the heat costed me everything I had left. As we arrived in the Parmath Niketam Ashram it was clear for us that we don´t want to search for something else. With this intension we finally really got a 3 person room.
We all felt
weak and hungry so we went to a little restaurant, as we missed the lunch in
the Ashram. Till my food came I was already laying on the table. After 2 bites
I had to go to our room. I didn´t left it for a long time. Fever, shaking,
puking and so on. I can not say how happy I was to have Anni and Luki and I don´t
want to think of what would have done alone. Lukas didn´t felt well neither,
but not far as bad as I. After they got me some Ayurveda pills from the
pharmacy I stopped puking after 3 hours and could find some sleep.
Waking up, Annika started to feel sick. I felt weak but OK and went for some Yoga. After breakfast we all felt a sleep again. I want to safe you from the details, but for the rest of our stay, the view we all saw the most was the wall in our bathroom. It was like a wonder that we made it like planned to leave Rishikesh with the booked train in the early night of the 9th, arrived in Delhi in the morning, took the plain to Trivandrum and a public bus to Kanyakumari. After 24 hours we saw us in a room, with beds not as hard as the stone mattess from the Ashram and a bathroom. A unbelievable feeling. We all still have problems. I lost a lot of weight and don´t know what to eat. There is all this delicious Indian food we badly want to eat and we have to search so hard for some sandwiches or ather western food that stays longer than 5 minutes in our stomachs.
Today we could see the end of the Indian half-continent. An impressive place, but sadly the Indians made it that it not looks nice. But we liked Kanyakumari for its `quietness’ (if you can ever use this word in India). Now we are in a train to Kollam, where we want to make a backwater tour.
We read about a nice Ashram close to the river, with food, yoga, meditation and a ceremony every night included. But normally you need a reservation weeks before. As it is low season we thought to give it a try and went to it with a Russian guy we met in the bus from Haritwar to Rishikesh. The way from the bridge, where the Tuk-Tuk left us, to the other side of the Ganga was hell for me. Lukas and I already got bit problems with the gastro-internal system in Delhi. But my heavy loaded backpack and the heat costed me everything I had left. As we arrived in the Parmath Niketam Ashram it was clear for us that we don´t want to search for something else. With this intension we finally really got a 3 person room.
Waking up, Annika started to feel sick. I felt weak but OK and went for some Yoga. After breakfast we all felt a sleep again. I want to safe you from the details, but for the rest of our stay, the view we all saw the most was the wall in our bathroom. It was like a wonder that we made it like planned to leave Rishikesh with the booked train in the early night of the 9th, arrived in Delhi in the morning, took the plain to Trivandrum and a public bus to Kanyakumari. After 24 hours we saw us in a room, with beds not as hard as the stone mattess from the Ashram and a bathroom. A unbelievable feeling. We all still have problems. I lost a lot of weight and don´t know what to eat. There is all this delicious Indian food we badly want to eat and we have to search so hard for some sandwiches or ather western food that stays longer than 5 minutes in our stomachs.
Today we could see the end of the Indian half-continent. An impressive place, but sadly the Indians made it that it not looks nice. But we liked Kanyakumari for its `quietness’ (if you can ever use this word in India). Now we are in a train to Kollam, where we want to make a backwater tour.
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