the world is not enough!!

Osho in Pune;;;;; absolutely excellent;; well I was the only one laughing watching the video in the meditation center.. the interviews:: " I found joy in my life after having been to the center// Osho oppened my mind..." and you them all dancing with the red or white outfit like devish turners.; Well in theory I have got no problem with people bielieving in whatever they want // my only issue with this is that the center was the most wealthy place in India : you could smell the money this corporation was stealing from the poor spiritually lost people,,, and it was somehow terifying. I left Puna straight after to reach Aurangabad. From there I could access the sites of Ajanta and Ellora easily. Ajanta and Ellora are two site of each more than 30 temples caves dug in the rocks,, each temple is monolitic.. Once again I was blown away by the beauty of these sites. I spent an awful night in a bus to reach Ahmedabad (Gandhi's city...) and the following night I took the night train to Udaipur. I arrived abslutely naked// you can imagine!! Udaipur is a splendide calm(for india) city with palaces in the lake. the lake palace was used in Octopussy (... james oh james). In Udaipur, a sort of weird miracle happened.::: I saw in the morning on facebook that one of my best and first fiend was in India for hollidays with his fiancee.. I was quite upset because he didn't inform me about it ;;; well I think he forgot I was at that time in India......Anyway as I did a boat trip on the lake, I saw a boat with a couple on it and their figure looked familiar although it was almost impossible to be them. Just to double check I went to see if it was them;;;; and I can still see the uncomposed face of mon Gabs and his Steff recognising me.... hahaha unbeleivable!! I shall be the best man in a few months time for their wedding... I planned before to go to a yoga class but of course we changed that for a nice happy beer.;;; what a joy!!! As if it wouldn't be enough, their travelling plan was just the exact same as mine;; Jaipur , Delhi and bye. In Jaipur, thanks to some great connections I got to have lunch with the Maharaja of Jaipur heheheh yeyeye. Today I am in Delhi with my friends for the ultimate day of the trip// tomorrow I'll be in London.
This trip was absolutely amazing, I have learnt a lot and understood a lot more about our world. It was fantastic and I can only recommend it to anyone. I met people of every age during the past 7 months; so everyone can do it at any time, and I really wish you to do such a journey once in your lifetime. Actually you all traveled with me along side, I always thought of you my friends,, when I laughed about something it is because I imagine you are with me seeing the situation and we laugh together. When I see amazing parts of the world, I think of how I would love to share this moment with you and that is why I wrote on this blog. These 7 months were the most intense of my life and I hope you enjoyed the reading, and that I managed to free you for some moment of the routine with each reading. Thanks a lot to the travel joiners who came for a few days or weeks heheh: mister Gil, Dad and Mam, misters Robi and Bi, Miss Nat, Mister Gabs and Miss Steff. and all the one who I met during the travel and I had amazing fun wih.
A yaer ago I flew off to London the same as tonight;; I'll stay there for a week before taking the eurostar for ze big come back and a nice nice very nice party there. So I will see most of you very soon. And for the others ;;; well I love so much to travel that I'll as well you soon hehe.
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Ultimate India!!!

What a slogan;;; it is the slogan of india/// but it is so true ;; it is ultimate. I went the following day to Fatepur Sikri and Agra to see zzze 'Taj'. I met some people who told me I could see it from the back and that it was pretty much the same so that I would save the entrance fee blablabla... heuuu no // it is not the same, I paid to enter and see the beauty from very close; and I definitely did right. The Taj Mahal is the grave of the wife of a Mogohl king,, like a pyramid of Egypt in some ways, but what a building, the simplicity of the architecture and the complexity of the wall elements make it a wonder from near as from far. Lovely!! << even a bit more then that.
It is in Agra that I developed the BRST 'Boris Rickshaw Scam Technique';; there you go:: you agree on a price with a rickshaw let us say 80 roupies to go somewhere; then you tell him 'I pay half price if you bring me to a shop (where he gets his commission) just for looking not buying, then he agrees, then you say you bring me in two shops and I get the ride for free/// and it works; so pretty much all my rickshaw rides are for free now I only need to spend 10 minutes in various shops looking not really interested by the fake stones or the fake pachmina challs etc. It always works!! It is important to always agree on one shop then a second one otherwise they always want three shops > and that is too much time 30 min/// Anyway, I then went to Delhi see the Indian Gate and others Delhi specials and took the plane to Bangalore where I met Natacha Ben's girlfriend (one of my very good french mate). We traveled together for the next 2 weeks and had lots of fun. In Bangalore, I tried to get some web contacts and did a bit but I'll go to some more firms in Pune and Delhi later on. We headed to Hampi;; a surreal place it looks fake !! temples spread out between massive stones, beautiful light, shaved women who give their hair to the gods etc. absolutely unique. We rented a motorbike << well it was more a motor on a bike but it was gorgeous::: I was singing to myself 'born to be wild' and had all the flashback of last year while I was traveling in Europe. After Hampi we arrived in Badami to see the temples in caves;;; that was of course amazing one more time// but the most appealing thing there was the shooting of a Boolywood movie;;; hahah what a laugh to see these indian boys band dancing all together: some of them were to small and were walking on their pants but they still were the stars heheh. We managed to speak to the main singer ''Sandy"// a real nice bloke actually he said:"me too it makes me laugh these movements but it is my job"...
The following day we were meant to take the direct bus to Goa at 6.30 am...> ok buses in India are not exactly punctual or good or anything... We waited until 8.30 am for the direct bus and then decided to take another bus with a change. At 9.30 we were still in the bus station so we decided to take a rickshaw to go to the next bus station and hope to get a bus from there.... At the end of the day; we took 3 buses and 4 rickshaws to arrive to Panjim in Goa/// ultimate India my friends heheh ///Goa Goa;; I thought everyone spoke Portuguese there and that I would be able to communicate easily, but actually, only very few old people still peak portuguese/// let us say I didn't impress the ladies ... the beaches were extremely dirty and with thousands of dead fish so the ultimate swimming was pretty little. We were looking for some good old 'trance Goa' and saw some rests of hippies and weirdweirdweird people, like this Iranian girl almost naked on the beach with piercing and tatoos everywhere as well as pink make up like American Indians on the face, who couldn't say a word because of the drugs at noon// apparently she was DJ on the beach.... (un)fortunately we didn't stay to listen to her set... This time we rented a greater motorbike and did quite a ride for 2 days exploring the different places and beaches of Goa. We went clubbing of course but it was rather soft compared to the reputation of Goa.
2 days ago we arrived in Mumbay, with one thing in mind Boollywood!!! People told us that westerners were often casted to be extras in movies.... and and::: of course they casted us!! hehe watch out my friend we are now Bollywood stars! The film will be called 'Bhavanraa' not too sure of went it will be out but I will definitely try to get a copy. My git what a funny experience! they gave us some cloths to wear::: the guy saw ma and gave me a pink girl top,,, very slightly far too small for me and a flower necklace hahahaha a beauty. The actors were awfully bad and we had to jump for each camera movement about 15 times as they newer got it right. Anyway, unforgettable I met a French with who we had good fun; we shall be creating a group on facebook for tourist extras in Boollywood;; lots of funny picts. Tomorrow I'll go to Pune to see some more firms. Pune is the city of the guru Osho... let see the strength of sect.
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Back to Indiaaa

Breaking News!!!! thanks a lot everyone I am proud of you!, thanks to your votes, Prashant won and all Nepal twisted into a great partyland a pitty I can't see him live! Annapurna was undescribable;; it is by far the best treck I have ever done. The stunning landscape is constantly changing over the few days and you go from beautie to beauties. I made sure this time to have a guide who could follow me ,,,, but unfortunately even if he was much better I still had to wait regularly. I found out what big legs are good for: for running in Mountain. The guide had never seen anyone like that and wants me to do the Eversest marathon on the 29th of May hahah. one day we have been liturally running down and we did a 7 hours ttreck in 3..... well good fun on the day but the day after the legs were gone!! this guide was really cool. he was singing and playing the flute none stop while treking, so I am pretty aware now of what is Nepali music,,,, at the end I couldn't hear it anymore but it had some folkloric taste. On the last day we went riding horses ( the first time for me) hahaha I thought it would be really relaxing >>>> well not really/// god it is a hard sport!! After a few local raksi (local alkohol) my guide and the horse guy were absolutely wasted and as the explanations were in Nepali, I didn't completly understand the subtilities of speed riding and got a massive butt irritation, which was not really great for the bus the following day...... Anyway Annapurna was great! and I went after to a Safari in the Chitwan national Park. The only little problem was the moonsoon rain again;;; when it rains the animals hide like humans << not stupid those animal,,,, so why did I go anyway?? to get wet really.. after a few tries we finally got to see a Rhino and a tiger......footprint,, still it was great fun. Back to India,, and to none stop scaming operations. I landed in Varanasi (Benares) and it was fabulous. Here comes a nice story: as every good tourist I went in the early morning on a boat to see the people bathing in the Ganges and do other religious practices. I was comfortably sitting on the boat when something punched me big time on the back. "what was that?" I turned my head to my back and almost felt of the boat realising that I had a bird shit abou the size of a tennis ball on my back,, I looked up:: it was an eagle!! Do you think it is a good sign? Anyway after a few minutes of cleaning in the Ganges( my shirt not me) I decided that it was unfair that the rower of the boat was only 14 and really skinny and that the big boy me was sitting watching him;;; so I told him I would do the rowing..... Well I am not too sure of my technic and I might have to leave out the oxford Cambridge competition this year as instead of going anywhere we started doing very gentle circles... oh my god!! hilarious. Tourists from other boats seeing me suddenly thought it was really cool to row and to get pictures of themselves rowing on the Ganges/// I couldn't believe it I launched a new trend! Today I arrived in a great and mystic place:: Kajuraho.... Temples a bit like in Bagan but with KamaSutra sculpture on them facinating, an open book!!! I enjoyed a lot the idea that there was once a religion that was based on pleasure// a good change for once. Tomorrow Agra and the Taj Mahal.
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