The road to Darjeeling!

The road to Darjeeling was treturous at best. To Mughal Sirghre was a nice tut tut through so much traffic i could die. Then i get there thank god i'm always scared of getting to the train station and missing my train. That sure was not the case this time as i looked the train was going to be a few hours late. Whatever i waited nine hours in the agra train station i can wait a few hours here. So i start walking mainly to look for someone who can tell me the time when i ran into some nice brits, "Yea the train is actually going to be twelve hours late" they said and i say " that's just great there is no way i'm staying in the train station for that long, Fuck there are a lot of mosquitos out." so we go to to some random hotel to wait for out train. A few hours later we decide it would be a good idea to go back and make sure the train was coming in at that time. LUcky us its going to be 22 hours late oh my hell what could be keeping the train. Apparently all the trains were delaying because of the for/smog covering Delhi which they all apparently go through. So we wait, sleep get up go to the train station the train is delayed two more hours we sit and have some coffee and create quite the scene as spectaters stop dead in their tracks to look at us. One guy even come into the coffee shop and sat at the table behind ours. Shit there is a fire at the train station i bet it's our train. Yea a real big fire the trees around it caught fire. you know why so many people die in fires because people go real close to look at it then run rampidly when it gets out of control. Our train comes. we are so happy it's a miracle; someone has taken my seat so i sleep on top of my luggage. i swear the transportation in india is a trial in hell. we get to new jalgaipurei then take a jeep up to Darjeeling. thats 24 hours to wait for the train 13 on the train and 8 in the jeep aparently the main road is closed. i look like i haven't slept in a week. so i get here say goodbye to brits get my room get insanly lost at night looking for fucking goodricks house of tea. i want tea damnit, i traveld through insanity just to get some god damn good tea. so i find a cool place have some weird roll i swear is made with rum icing and finally tea, it was good. Next day i realize that's its freaking cold here i'm only staying two nights hopefully i would really not like to get a cold or sicker. I finally found Goodricks and have tea until i burst and bought a cool mandala pendant. it looks cheap but it looks better that way. Hopefully tomorrow i will get on toy train to New jalgapurie then to calcutta then to chennai/madras. hopefully

Exaltion

I'm in Varanasi now, it was a really long way. really long. Look on a map it's forever; agra was a pain such beauty at the monuments then the hell the awaits you outside the gates. I did not like it much. I waited for my train for maybe nine hours met some army guys who were nice. I finally figured out why so many people like talking to me, they like to practice their english. Anyway after waiting i got on the train oops wrong car ran to the next one and o yes people are sitting in my sit. Whatever it's a woman with a baby i would have been fine but they kept on looking at me like i was going secreting pure evil. Finally they get off i get a whole seat to my self. it's nice going on a train. then we stop, not at a train station no just in the middle of nowhere. This happened like ten times. It took 13 hours to get there. I was so tired from not sleeping for like two and a half days when i got to my hostel i woke up at eleven and they were all worried they gave me food and coffee checked my pulse. Apparantly i had slept for 12 hours. and in India people only sleep about 4, so they thought i was dead. The manager came and woke me up all worried it was hilarious. The Ganges river is beautiful i overpaid for my boat ride but it was worth it. I watched the sun rise as we floated along the river with about 50 other boats with tourists. Today was good i first woke up ate then ran down to the ganges where i met some americans to watch my cloths while i went into the water. It made me feel so peaceful. Although now don't feel very good. Whatever i've decided to stay until the film runs out or the money. Probable before the money runs out that would be bad.

Illuminated

I was inside the Taj Mahal yesterday. . .

So being here in Delhi is great, but i am leaving. Yep going to Mathura right in the morning. Then to Agra. Me and lali (aussie girl ally with indian nickname) are traveling there then parting ways as the next day i will stay in Agra until 8 then train off to Varanasi. Yes the Ganges i made a promise to myself if i came to India i had to bath in the Ganges. . . It's just something i need to do in my life. But Lali will be going to Jadpur. Interesting we met yesterday; it's just here you become friends by being foreign and loving it. You connect on a different level when you are traveling the world. So internet maybe i'll leave something when i can. LOVE YOU ALL!!

Dawning. . .

I'm in fucking India, i woke up and i new i was really here. i wasn't just imagining i was here or back home. Delhi is such an amazing place, first i met this cool aussie chick at my hostel so me and her walk to the local bazar where we set up a tour of old Delhi and new Delhi. We saw the most beautiful places, well we saw them through the heavily saturated pollution which is normal here. It's kind of like being inside of a fog, that's warm and cold, and smells sometimes. Walking around is an experience all on it's own you walk down any street here and you can see everything the rest of the world has to offer in a space the size of small winding ally ways. The day was long from being driven to all parts of the city and from walking up and down stairs and evading beggers. The day culminated in the invitaion from a ramdom guy (American) to this girl playing her guitar at a local cafe. Hell yea so we go, me and aussie girl, and we meet all this worldly group. The singer is from america who lives in Israel who is playing in India for fun. The people are from all over Denmark, Japan, Spain, Varanasi India, America, Lithiwania. It's funny how all of us just got together to listen to some music, it was nice. Also also also i have realized that saying i don't know when i'll be coming back was ridiculous, i will most likly be back in a few months. That dosen't mean that i'm giving up or whatever on India so early i just know that the being here at my age is great but if i came back maybe a few years later with some close friends or family it would mean more, that's just how India feels but i've been here only a short time who knows.

To whom it may conern. . .

I have succesfully entered india, the flight was moderatly good considering the fact that i was bumped up to first class, Yeay. So the flight was long, very long; so long in fact i watched maybe four in a half movies. I was a little nervous going through customs but everything was great the official liked my tattoo go me. I grab my luggage and find the Smyle driver who can't seem to find the car. I found out later it was his first day. Driving is interesting, the rules as far as i can tell are, honk if you want them to move out of your way, blink many times to warn other vehicles that you are coming and or get out of the way. Three if you want to get ahead of another car just go in-between other cars around you, if you can fit you are good to go. The highway is very pretty, apparently the fog is so hazardous that on seemingly random strips of highway there are lights going off in no particular desending fashion to give the impression of the rainbow highway from mario cart, well orange blinking highway anyway. So i get to the hotel, the street looks like something out of a japanese horror film. People notice my blonde hair and blue eyes prominant check bones and tallness and immediatly assume that i'm from Denmark. Okay i'll take it, my room is basicly o peace of soft wood they call a mattress with a shower/bathroom, that i actually like. I pretty much have had a headache sice around flying over Russia, but i'll take it easy i talked to some nice people that recomended a taxi tour which sounds great since my map of Delpi is less than ideal. Which i will probable do tomorrow when i feel better. I'm good to go, i've made it this far and i'm ready for whatever comes next.