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In this blog we will share our experiences from our trips around the world. Since December 2015 our focus has been on travel. We are planning to be on the road until August 2018, what happens after that we will find out then. // Christel & Johan
(The Outback, Australia, 13th of February 2017)
We were picked up by our adventure bus at 5.30 in the morning. In the bus sat a Dutch couple and a girl from Wales. The rest of the participants, 12 people, would be picked up at the airport at Uluru five hours later. Our guide Josh was a young man with curly hair and a mustache which matched the image I had of the archetype of a young Australian man. He was energetic and happy and really made us feel that this would be a good trip.
We stopped a few times along the way for toilet visits but also so we could buy beer before the upcoming evenings.
The Indian people are very curious! Staring at another person in India is not at all rude and is something you have to get used to when you are a Westerner, especially when you drive a floral decorated rickshaw in India. Read More
(Rishikesh, India, 10th of Sep 2016)
Other highlights of the week has been the fire cermonies at the retreat. Before breakfast and dinner, we gathered and sacrificed and sung to the Ganesha god. The music came from a cellphone and sang did those who knew the words, which were those with Indian origin and those who had stayed at the retreat for a long time. All clapped their hands following the rhythm of the music and then a plate with incense, fire (a candle) and offerings was sent around among the participants. Each person took the plate and went up to Ganesha and moved the barrel in a circular motion that must be clockwise. After the ceremony everybody got a red dot on the forehead which was gilded with some grains and ended with a few flowers thrown over each person’s head.
