Some more answers!
We didn't finish all the answers that we promised you... here comes the rest!
Pictures
As you all know we don't upload pictures that often. The reason for that is that we don't want to spend our day in front of a computer! It takes quite some time actually. But at some internet cafes it's a bit tricky to get it all sorted out and at some places your not allowed to even put your usb-memory in the computer! Somedays it's good to have a reason to stay in though, when it's to hot outside and you don't want to get sunburnt! We'll upload pictures in a couple of days.
Holy shit?!
Farmor (Sivor) asked us if we knew about a cows poo beeing sacred. And honestly - we don't know! What we do know is that they use it. The shape them into a flat, round... thing and slap them on their little huts. Maybe it's good isolation?
Slumdog millionare
About the slum in Mumbai. It isn't actually that bad... they are poor, don't get me wrong. But the ones who lives in the slum are not the poorest of the poor. The slum in Mumbai turnover 600 million dollars a year - they have a lot of factorys there so it's more like a town in a town.
Our plans
We have been a bit (or a lot) sneaky about where we're going next. And we won't tell you yet... All I can say is that it's in India and it's slightly cooler there... And the coulor turquoise comes to mind... hmhmhm
I thought I should tell you what a wounderful experience we had a couple of days ago in Munnar. The second day we took another riksha tour with a german guy we met the evening before. We had a wounderful day and went on a trecking-safari (don't worry the guide had a giant stick that he was going to use to poke all the lions and tigers when they attacked us... and... all we saw was a deer and some tracks from some animal...), swimmed in a lovely little lake with a whole lot of monkeys around us and had a great lunch by the road. On our way back to Munnar someone in a car going the opposite direction yelled something to our driver. We stopped and our driver pointed at something down by the teabushes. At frist we didn't see anything... and then we saw a big wild elephant! Apparently there's only three in the area. After a while we saw that it wasn't just one elephant, there was three! Two big ones and a little cub! This was not a common thing that happens every day. No, all the people in the mountain villages came out from their huts and houses and looked at these amazing creatures. We drove off and stopped at a little road that led down to the teaplantations. At this point it was only our little group of four (the riksha driver, the german guy, Jacob and me) and we started to run through the teabushes (and yes, that hurt a lot!) in hope of catching the elephants and get a better picture! We saw them from about 20 meters! It was amazing! And my adrenalin was pumping like it never has before - of excitement and fear (the are huge). Allthough we've seen a lot of elephants in our time here, this was something else! Then, as me and Jacob was standing there, in the middle of some teabushes about 20 meters from the elephants our driver gave us some news. The elephants can actually climb up in the bushes (we where watching them from a little hill) if they feel like it or if they get angry. The fear took over and I started running up the hill.... Anyway, they didn't start to chase us but still, the thought of that they could have scares the hell out of me... Of course I was surrounded by matcho men who wouldn't show their fear! A very exciting experience!
Now we're in Madurai. Not a very fun city. We have stayed here one night and at nine tonight we're going on a train to Chennai. Chennai on the other hand is not supposed to be a very fun city either but we have some arrends to attend to... hm hm hm...
Talk to you soon!
Love
Melissa & Jacob
Pictures
As you all know we don't upload pictures that often. The reason for that is that we don't want to spend our day in front of a computer! It takes quite some time actually. But at some internet cafes it's a bit tricky to get it all sorted out and at some places your not allowed to even put your usb-memory in the computer! Somedays it's good to have a reason to stay in though, when it's to hot outside and you don't want to get sunburnt! We'll upload pictures in a couple of days.
Holy shit?!
Farmor (Sivor) asked us if we knew about a cows poo beeing sacred. And honestly - we don't know! What we do know is that they use it. The shape them into a flat, round... thing and slap them on their little huts. Maybe it's good isolation?
Slumdog millionare
About the slum in Mumbai. It isn't actually that bad... they are poor, don't get me wrong. But the ones who lives in the slum are not the poorest of the poor. The slum in Mumbai turnover 600 million dollars a year - they have a lot of factorys there so it's more like a town in a town.
Our plans
We have been a bit (or a lot) sneaky about where we're going next. And we won't tell you yet... All I can say is that it's in India and it's slightly cooler there... And the coulor turquoise comes to mind... hmhmhm
I thought I should tell you what a wounderful experience we had a couple of days ago in Munnar. The second day we took another riksha tour with a german guy we met the evening before. We had a wounderful day and went on a trecking-safari (don't worry the guide had a giant stick that he was going to use to poke all the lions and tigers when they attacked us... and... all we saw was a deer and some tracks from some animal...), swimmed in a lovely little lake with a whole lot of monkeys around us and had a great lunch by the road. On our way back to Munnar someone in a car going the opposite direction yelled something to our driver. We stopped and our driver pointed at something down by the teabushes. At frist we didn't see anything... and then we saw a big wild elephant! Apparently there's only three in the area. After a while we saw that it wasn't just one elephant, there was three! Two big ones and a little cub! This was not a common thing that happens every day. No, all the people in the mountain villages came out from their huts and houses and looked at these amazing creatures. We drove off and stopped at a little road that led down to the teaplantations. At this point it was only our little group of four (the riksha driver, the german guy, Jacob and me) and we started to run through the teabushes (and yes, that hurt a lot!) in hope of catching the elephants and get a better picture! We saw them from about 20 meters! It was amazing! And my adrenalin was pumping like it never has before - of excitement and fear (the are huge). Allthough we've seen a lot of elephants in our time here, this was something else! Then, as me and Jacob was standing there, in the middle of some teabushes about 20 meters from the elephants our driver gave us some news. The elephants can actually climb up in the bushes (we where watching them from a little hill) if they feel like it or if they get angry. The fear took over and I started running up the hill.... Anyway, they didn't start to chase us but still, the thought of that they could have scares the hell out of me... Of course I was surrounded by matcho men who wouldn't show their fear! A very exciting experience!
Now we're in Madurai. Not a very fun city. We have stayed here one night and at nine tonight we're going on a train to Chennai. Chennai on the other hand is not supposed to be a very fun city either but we have some arrends to attend to... hm hm hm...
Talk to you soon!
Love
Melissa & Jacob
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