it just keeps getting better

Bikaner, Rajasthan India

Don't have time to write much but had to give you a quick update because this past few days has been incredible... first after i wrote my last blog i got asked by the owner to eat lunch upstairs at his house, there were all these people running around and ladies dressed up... turned out one of his sons was getting married that night!!! And they wanted me to join the baarat (groom's procession) and go to the wedding!

After i was in Jaiselmer and got to stay at one of the small guesthouses within the fort, and then off to the desert for a camel overnight safari... i chose to go out to the more secluded desert and for 36 hours the 9 of us were the only foreigners in sight... sleeping under the desert was so peaceful and i still can't get over the sky full of stars and then the moon just lighting up the sky!


The absolute incredible, unbelievable part was when yesterday i was walking around the fort visiting the temples and did a double take when i saw an asian girl who looked quite familiar and then the man next to her looked up and shouted 'LOPA!' It was Dave and Wynona from Australia who I hadn't seen in 2 years! We're traveling in the same direction for the next few days so I'm hitching a ride with them... its just changed the dynamics of my experience completely!!!!>

alright off to dinner, tomorrow its the Jain Temple with the floor made of 40,000 kilos of ghee (purified butter) and then the holy rat temple (yes a place where rats are worshipped)... good thing i've got a pair of socks to wear inside the temple