Indiaaaaaahhhhhh!
After recovering from the Christmas beach excursion, Ruwan and I flew to India (Bangalore) on Dec 28th for a jam-packed week of… relaxation…
Ruwan’s mom also flew into Bangalore, so we decided to share a taxi and drop her off in Puttaparthi for a religious pilgrimage to the ashram (temple/city) of Sathya Sai Baba, a man regarded by his devotees as a living god. While there, we met this really cool gal named Samantha who explained that seeing Sai Baba (the swami) is basically like meeting Jesus. So, naturally, I tried to be respectful and didn’t take any video or pics. Luckily, Sai Baba has his own video blog, with a damn cool name: www.saicast.org!
IMO, Sai Baba looks a lot like my friend Jawad, but you can be the judge:
(Dear Jawad, I did my best to scour your facebook profile to find a picture of you – with the fro – striking the pose of a living god. This was the best I could come up with.)
After a day in the ashram, and seeing about 700 pictures of Sai Baba in various entrancing poses, Ruwan and I hit the road for Mysore palace, and the video takes it from there.
Highlights:
- more crazy driving (and lots of it because india is huge – its like driving in a giant texas and takes an entire day to get anywhere)
- house-boating on the Keralan backwaters – Deepu’s home state!
- playing with village kids – the greatest thing in all of India!
- elephant tricks
And another (belated) HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I am a blog junkie and saw you post a link to this on FB [and a tangent- I read Eat Pray Love over this winter break, so I have the travel bug in me quite badly, having studied in Rome last summer already]– it looks like you’re having an unbelievable time. Lookin’ forward to reading/watching more. Happy NY’s too
p.s. I think it’s awesome you have a travel guide. I am the OCD planning type and already bought two for my trek around Europe this summer.
Thanks for the abroad update! Miss you tons. Totally looks like Jawad.
Jaysus! . . . nearly had heart failure on the drive to Wayanad. Loved the fam on the motorcycle:)