Around India in 73 days
Hi everyone!
I am gonna be off in India for 2.5 months, and I though I'd try to stay in touch! For Swedes I'm keeping a travel diary at www.resdagboken.se (alias jennyish) but for all you lovely people who speak English i will keep you posted here.
The crew; me, Caroline and Ludwig, are currently in Mumbai. We came here on Monday morning, after going via Helsinki on Sunday night.
So far it's been both amazing and very different and tough in a way. The trip from the airport to our hotel was the strangest thing ever. I mean, of course we had read up on India beforehand, but we didn't actually understand that people were literally living on the streets, pavements and even between the motorway lanes. It is so crowded here, and stepping over a box you can actually be stepping over someone's house. We are contstantly approached with people wanting to sell us things, or begging for money. It is heartbreaking, but I guess we have to, well maybe not get used to it, but accept we have to live with it here.
We have, however, met loads of great people too. There are loads of backpackers from all over the world and everyone is really friendly and easy to talk to. The day before yesterday, a lovely Indian guide took us around the entire Mumbai, and showed us a hindu temple, the Mahatma Gandhi Museum (in the house where Gandhi lived and worked), the Hangning Gardens, and a tiny laundry service in the slum. It was an entire community, that even had a school for the children of the workers.
Yesterday we went to Colaba Market and had a look at a million spices, materials, vegetables and fruits. We also found a contemporary arts museum, with photograps and paintings by Indian artists. Part of the experience was also looking at the exhibitions of hopeful local amateur artists, who displayed and sold their works just outside the museum.
For me, who is a huge Shantaram-fan (the novel about Mumbai that everyone here talks about), one of the best things has been having dinner at Leopold's; the favourite cafe of the main charachter.
We have been staying at Sea Shore Hotel, which is the top floor of a building with seven something steep stairs, and with no hotel sign on the street. We didn't think the taxi-driver was being serious when he stopped outside literally a hole in the wall. I however suspect that this hostel, that isn't actually that bad, is one of the nicer in this very budget range of prices.
Later today we are off by bus to Goa!
Much love/ Jenny
I am gonna be off in India for 2.5 months, and I though I'd try to stay in touch! For Swedes I'm keeping a travel diary at www.resdagboken.se (alias jennyish) but for all you lovely people who speak English i will keep you posted here.
The crew; me, Caroline and Ludwig, are currently in Mumbai. We came here on Monday morning, after going via Helsinki on Sunday night.
So far it's been both amazing and very different and tough in a way. The trip from the airport to our hotel was the strangest thing ever. I mean, of course we had read up on India beforehand, but we didn't actually understand that people were literally living on the streets, pavements and even between the motorway lanes. It is so crowded here, and stepping over a box you can actually be stepping over someone's house. We are contstantly approached with people wanting to sell us things, or begging for money. It is heartbreaking, but I guess we have to, well maybe not get used to it, but accept we have to live with it here.
We have, however, met loads of great people too. There are loads of backpackers from all over the world and everyone is really friendly and easy to talk to. The day before yesterday, a lovely Indian guide took us around the entire Mumbai, and showed us a hindu temple, the Mahatma Gandhi Museum (in the house where Gandhi lived and worked), the Hangning Gardens, and a tiny laundry service in the slum. It was an entire community, that even had a school for the children of the workers.
Yesterday we went to Colaba Market and had a look at a million spices, materials, vegetables and fruits. We also found a contemporary arts museum, with photograps and paintings by Indian artists. Part of the experience was also looking at the exhibitions of hopeful local amateur artists, who displayed and sold their works just outside the museum.
For me, who is a huge Shantaram-fan (the novel about Mumbai that everyone here talks about), one of the best things has been having dinner at Leopold's; the favourite cafe of the main charachter.
We have been staying at Sea Shore Hotel, which is the top floor of a building with seven something steep stairs, and with no hotel sign on the street. We didn't think the taxi-driver was being serious when he stopped outside literally a hole in the wall. I however suspect that this hostel, that isn't actually that bad, is one of the nicer in this very budget range of prices.
Later today we are off by bus to Goa!
Much love/ Jenny
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