We found our retreat in Rishikesh!

(Rishikesh, India, 4th of Sep 2016)

We had booked the retreat from the 4th of September but after emailing back and forth with the manager we had been given a room a day earlier without any extra cost. The reception area was, when we arrived, full of people celebrating and dressed up in white clothes and orange flower wreaths, and after a while we realized that it was because this was the last day of their month-long yoga teacher retreat.

We got a room right away and was then offered lunch in the garden with the other guests. Everyone was very nice and it was easy to just sit down at the long table and chat.

The rest of this first day was spent trying to take money out of cash machines. Four cards and three ATMs later, we managed to get our hands on 1500 SEK (170 Euros) – in India truly the smallest things could be a big project.