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.

A seed has been planted in my mind.

Cheap flighttickets brought me back to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Along with me this time came Daniel, an adventures German adrenaline junkie who had been doing every kind of bungy-skydiving thing you could imagine. He made me try a soft version of his world by taking me jetskiing. My God, how I rocked that shit! Loved the rush in my stomach. His love and excitement for thrills, made me open my mind for the possibility of maybe wanting to try some of this crazy stuff myself one day (until now this has been a serious no-go for me. I’m to freaked out by dying).

I've said it ones, but I'll say it again. I love how your mind expands when you're exploring the world and don't have a physical base to keep it in the same routines every day. Maybe I could skydive too? I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it. Hope I get the possibility to do it one day and hopefully I will have courage enough that day and just do it! (of course I will!)

Other than dreaming of me being bold, I've been to the Cameron highlands, a colder mountain area where you can walk around the beautiful tea plantages and pick strawberries! That was certainly a change. The cold weather made me send a thought back to my home country.

These days I’ve been catching up on my German language (not much to build from though). I've mainly learned words that are too bad to write here, haha. I’ll learn the rest some other day.

Soon I will be heading towards my beloved India where I’m gonna meet up with Tine, a close friend from back at home. Man, I’m excited about that! The two of us on the road together. It can only end up craaaazy…

Over and out.

Maj.

- PHOTO # 1: My one and only. God damn it, I love this car!

- PHOTO # 2: Tea plantages of the Cameron Highlands.
- PHOTO # 3: Strawberriiiiiiiies............... mmmm........
- PHOTO # 4: Daniel and the twins.
- PHOTO # 5: Liv is enjoying a cold danish beer.