Thursday, 21 April 2011

"I think Mary Poppins would really like it here" Giselle (27th March)

Never under estimate monkeys. I'd just started to think that they wernt that bad and they wernt really that bothered about us humans. Then a silly baby monkey had to go ruin their reputation.
We had just had breakfast on the hotel roof top YUM! and had started to head down the stairs to our room. On the way down i spotted a mummy monkey and two baby ones sat right out side the window. The window had no glass but had some bars in the way. "Gis look at the monkeys, haha they can't get us cuz theres bars in the way !". I should of realised then i had jinxed us. We had got quite close to the window to look at them, the mum didnt seem bothered in the slightest and neither did the babies to begin with, then out of nowhere one of the babies went mental and launched its self at the window screeching in a horrible monkey way and rattling the bars. Obviously me and Giselle freaked out. As soon as the baby had jumped the mum had followed also looking like she wanted to kill us."Ahhh shit man !!" we ran away very very fast. "Dude did you see that monkeys arm! i thought she had got you!" I was too busy running away to notice but apparently the mummy monkeys arm had stretched through the bars and had tried to grab my sleeve. It may not sound that dramatic to you but im am definatly counting it as a near death experiance.

The rest of the day was slightly more relaxing. Giselle broke some guy called Mogallys heart by not going to his tea shop. We saw a cow and bull being forced to make babies or as the indian man put it "they make sex." we also tried out Dolphin restaurant which was nice and had a lovely view of the sun setting and all the kites (not the bird kind) being flown all around the city, which braught Giselle to the conclusion that Marry Poppins would really like it in Varanasi. After waiting along time to order a pancake we gave up and went to pay the bill, the waiters were all sat round the tele watching Cricket (If people didnt no its the Cricket world cup atm and india are obsessed with it).

Every evening at the main Ghat they a have a Puja celebration, the purpose is to communicate with the gods of the Ganga. The young priests perform it with a mixture of prayers, songs and rituals. We hadnt bothered going down yesterday evening so decided we should check it out. We headed down and there were crowds on crowds of people, it involved a lot of standing around and people wanting you to buy flowers to give to the gods and people wanting to put a thumb print of paint on your forehead only then wanting us to give them money.We stayed for most of it, it was pretty with lots of candles and bells being rung. We were quite far back and couldn't see all that was going on, because of this and to avoid getting stuck we decided to leave early and head back to the hotel.

Another early morning start tomorrow :) night night Varanasi                                                                                                                                              

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