Final stop Copenhagen.

Being with my family again was amazing! I basically jumped up and down when I saw their signings in the guest book and immediately ran to their room. Together we spend 10 days on the beaches of Goa enjoying having nothing else to do than relax. It was absolutely wonderful. A couple of days later they left for Denmark, leaving me and Tine behind for a few days by our selves.

Finally I got to try paragliding! It was amazing being in the air like a bird. When the driver asked me if I wanted to fly it myself, the answer were pretty obvious. Wauw, that was incredible!

So, now it's at the ending of my trip. Wow, the past seven months went by so quickly I can't believe it at all. Seems jus like yesterday I arrived to the yogaschool back in Rishikesh. Thought I was only going for June and July and here I am a couple of days to christmas. Life can really take you somewhere if you let it.

Thanks for following my blog. I'll sign off for this time now. Hope to see you for future travels. Maj.

- PHOTO # 1: Flying.

- PHOTO # 2: Mark is relaxing in the hammock.

- PHOTO # 3: Cows are everywhere in India, including the beaches of Goa.

- PHOTO # 4: "BE JESUS MY WAY!" The waiter very kindly express his religious believes with a little handwriting on the bill. Everywhere in Goa Christian slogans are showing due to the Portugise colonization.

- PHOTO # 5: Used my last rupies to decorate myself and my luggage with christmas stuff, to make myself and all the other stranded people in airports in a better mood.

Meeting the Dalai Lama.

We get to Pushkar fair a little late and miss most of the 50.000 camels that were expected. Still we have a great time, watching both a turban competition and we are helping the winner of the longest beard competition holding his beard while he is being photographed hahaha…. that’s some serious weird shit!

Also we get invited to stay for dinner at a temple family's house, who clearly belongs to the upper class of India. They even give us money after end dinner to support our dentist bill coursed by the food. The father is an ayuvedic doctor and we get to talk a lot about natural medicin which I enjoy.

We travel further on 30 hours straight to get to Dharamsala, the hometown of Dalai Lama and the tibetian eksil government. When we arrive we are tired, but yet still amazed by the view that are meeting us. This mountain city at the beginning of the himalayas is so incredibly beautiful. We are lucky with the weather. It is winther time, but the snow hasn’t fallen yet, so we get by by having two set of clothes on all the time. Some walks in the clean mountain air does it - we are now fully relaxed.

By mistake (I promise!) we cheat and get in front to se the Dalai Lama up close. Very close! Later we learn that everyone else has waited for weeks to get as good seat at us. Oh well, I’m sure they can find it in their good Buddhist hearts to forgive us. To enter and leave his teachings he is walking pass the crowd, that means just 1,5 meters from me. It's amazing! He’s right there next to me. I’m speechless.

Now it’s off to Goa where I’m meeting my family who I haven’t seen in six months. Fuck, I am excited!

Maj.

- PHOTO # 1: How can you not love this man?

- PHOTO # 2: Right before getting my head reshaved at the local barber.

- PHOTO # 3: Walking around the calm natur in Pushkar.

- PHOTO # 4: Beauty of Dharamsala.

- PHOTO # 5: These navy guys saved our day. After having a fight against half the train couch they offer us food and good company to apologise for their fellow Indian's behavior.

Namaste!

Hahahaa hoo oho hahah ha.... We are joining a laughter meditation class and are trying to aim consciousness by laughing our ass off. After end session we continue with shaking meditation and in the end, dancing meditation. All of the above with psychedelic Indian trance music to get into the vibe. The rule is not to think at all, but let your body express itself in any way it wishes to. And it sure is FUN! I loved this meditation style instantly. My body was moving in ways I didn't know possible, following the non existing rhythms in the music.

From the blue city of Udaipur we move to the sand coloured city, Jaisalmer. This city is in the desert and it is surrounded by an enormous desert fort. From this city we do a 2 day camel safari into the desert. I have been waiting for this for so long. Ever since Sawai Madaphur where I saw the first camels walking around in the streets (apparently the city were George Lucas got his inspiration for star wars), I have been fascinated about this beautiful creature. It was simply amazing to sit on it for the first time. They told me the name of my camel was Lula, but I instantly named her TJU-BANG! As the only one in the group, the camel driver chose me to do a little free style, learning me how to drive my own camel while everyone else was going in a line after each other tied together by a rope. I surely loved that! I rode through the desert by myself in my own tempo, sometimes missing my group completely, but with TJU-BANGs nose, we were always able to find the way back. What a feeling of freedom being alone in the desert! We slept in the sand dunes with blankets. Wauw, I tell you, those stars were shining so clear in the dark sky. It was such a fantastic and memorable trip.

- PHOTO # 1: Me, TJU-BANG and two other girls are doing the yogi meditation style.

- PHOTO # 2: We are celebrating the Indian light festival, Diwali.

- PHOTO # 3: Relaxing with a chai after meditation class.

- PHOTO # 4: Rockclimbing. We are learned 'safety, safety first', but that rule only goes for us. The guide is climbing the way to the top to connect the line for us, without any security. 'Safety safery second' apparently.

- PHOTO # 5: The beautiful desert.

OM SHANTI.

A short post from India.

We’ve moved from the incredible charming Udaipur to the hills of the cold and beautiful Mount Abu. This village is the headquarter of the Raj Yoga spiritual university, that worldwide has 900.000 people following and learning about spirituality and meditation. These are the people that are doing the neverending on going meditation for world peace. We visited the universal peace hall and followed a student for the past two days to get a small insight of what this spiritual path is all about.

We experienced true Indian hospitality, when invited to a local families house for dinner. We sat on a blanket in the kitchen with the mother of the house and her youngest sons, while the rest of the family ate in the room next door. Her cooking was simply amazing. Even though the language barrier present, we had an incredible evening getting to know a little of more of India than we get from the streets every day.

That’s it for now. Have to go to bed. I'm going for early dance and laughter meditation tomorrow. YEHAA!!!

- PHOTO # 1: Colours. Gotta love them!
- PHOTO # 2: We get extremely girly and happy when we find the most beautiful colours of nail polish.
- PHOTO # 3: Turban musuem. Apparently the largest turban in the world.
- PHOTO # 4: Tine manage to do yoga in a small hostel.
- PHOTO # 5: By accident we find a Danish magazine. Mm... to read danish on the rooftop in the sun. Pure happiness.

Incredible India!

Tine and I are really followed by luck. We just recently found out that the Dalai Lama is coming to Dharamsala the same time as we are there. I will definitely do everything in my power to shake that mans hand! Fuck, I’m excited about it! Also Tine read, that it is very common for foreigners to get a small role in a Bollywood movie when you go to the studio based in Mumbai. Hell yeah! They are gonna drag me out of there for sure! Last, but certainly not the least, the yearly camel fair in Pushkar is going on exactly when we are there. Apparently 50.000 camels are expected in the town along with snake charmers and men walking on glowing coal. Fuck, I’m so excited about all of the above. India really lives up to the travelling slogan; Incredible India!

Together me and Tine have been doing a tiger safari, but even though we did our very best to spot them, and try to be as quiet as possible (it is very hard when you are really set on eating several Marie biscuits in the meantime), we didn’t see any. I totally blame the baby for the noise, certainly not me and Tines constant giggling throughout the whole tour.

We are now in Udaipir, the city where Mahatma Ghandis ashes have been spread. We’ve met a lot of other travellers with whom we are spending our days and evenings. A gruop of us motorbiked around the area yesterday. Me and Tine on the same bike; me in front and Tine as my back bitch. It was awesome getting to the countryside of India. We ended up bathing in a lake, hoping it was the right one out of two without any crocodiles. Didn’t see any though. But I did ask Tine to get in as well to spread the risk of being the one eaten.

- PHOTO # 1: Fuck, I love the camels with their Indian pierced nose style going on.
- PHOTO # 2: On Mtv India you only see one kind of music: Bollywood - of course.
- PHOTO # 3: We finally figured what the Indian men takes as marriage jewelleries; toe rings. Got to do whatever you can!
- PHOTO # 4: Where is the God Damn tiger?!
- PHOTO # 5: Doing the power rangers style on the motorbike ride!

India, baby!

I AM THRILLED! FINALLY I'M BACK IN MY BELOVED INDIA!

Met up with Tine from back at home and together we are going to travel India for the next three months. First stop is touring the state of Rajastan, then hopefully go to the teachings of Dalai Lama in Daramsala late November and in December we will join my family in Goa. I haven't seen them for half a year and I'm really looking forward to it!

India is just as intense as when I got here back in June. I have a hard time believing that you will ever be able to prepare yourself for this country. It's so overwhelming being in streets packed with camels, holy cows, women in colourful sarees, children grabbing your hands, monkeys, new unknown smells, heat and SOOO many people staring at you all the time. It's beauty and pure madness combined. The introduction of cellphones with cameras has only made India even more crazy. You really feel like a celebrity with your picture being taken everywhere you go. I thought I was the tourist, not the attraction?!!

Tine is a virgin travelling in Asia, but already she's a natural talent. She's tough, knows how to bargain, stair and yell back, and that makes a pretty good beginning for survival in India. Our way of travelling is exactly the same: as cheap and local as possible. I love that.

I'm thrilled by India when I get to taste it's excellent cuisine again. I'm getting mad about India when you everywhere are defined by either your father or husband. I proudly write my mothers name when asked 'Daughter of:' and I love when people can tell by mine and my fathers name, that it IS possible to get your last name from your mother!

India is for sure overwhelming, but MY GOD I love being back!

- PHOTO: Happy haappy haaaaaappy!!!

Killing time in KL.

Visa applying is a bitch. Been waiting for a week and still have another week to kill. Luckily I’m in a great hostel with lots of backpackers and luckily I have many projects on my mind to keep me busy and entertain myself.

While waiting I’ve been:

• Learning to juggle! That’s right. I don’t know why, but it works best when I’m humming the circus song while doing it.
• Shaved Chloes head. Afterwards she's been trying to convince me to do another piercing. I’m tempted but am trying to fight against it!
• Learning to control the muscles above my left eye. It’s freaking hard, I tell you!
• Teaching yoga every evening to the other hostel guests. It is so much fun. I love it! I make every lesson in a different theme according to my personal mood that day. Until now we have had jazz yoga, Beatles yoga, up beat yoga and raggea yoga.
• Been to the hospital. Not really a project, but it did took me a whole day.
• Beginning to learn to tapdance. The hardest part is to make the tapping sound with your mouth in the same time as your bare feet touch the floor.

What will be next? Only time will tell...

- PHOTO # 1: Had some kind of infection and had to be checked in this awesome way, where I could see mysef from the inside! That's a first!
- PHOTO # 2: And the hair trend passes on.
- PHOTO # 3: Where I live these days; an 8 beded female doorm.
- PHOTO # 4: Me in my bunker.
- PHOTO # 5: Fashion of Malaysia.