Bombay = Mumbai = Bombay

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Samir's article. Way back when, back when we were in Hampi, we went to the ruins that lay behind the city with the same tour guide as before. We saw the Queen's bath, temple ruins, palace ruins and an underground temple. The underground temple had a small lake in the middle, water snakes and thousands of hanging bats. Though we saw no water snakes, we did see the bats coming and going through the windows. We also saw ENORMOUS statues of gods with lion heads and elephant heads. A night or two later, all of us kids were really sick, as in 😱😞😱 kind of sick. Even though we were still recovering from the flu, we took another 10 hour train ride west to Goa, which is where we came from, only in a place called Panjim. Most of the time we spent there we were feeling sick, but when we felt good enough to walk, we drove around a place called Old Goa. The day after was March 4, which is a holiday in India called Holi. Holi started because some king burnt his kids, and then a god killed a demon which exploded in a lot of colour. Basically, in Holi, you go around pouring powder on people, but there were a lot less people celebrating it than we thought would be, so we just threw powder at each other. After much lazing and couch potatoing, we took yet another train to Mumbai/Bombay, where we found a Mcdonalds very much like the ones at home, only it had no beef, better ice cream and a "McCurry". Will write once we take a 20 hour train ride to Rajistan, and much grief will be expressed. 😞

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Photos

Bats in the Underground Temple
The title basically says it all.

Lakes of the Underground Temple
OOOOoooooOOOOOooooo!!!!! Eerie

A Giant Statue of Vishnu, the Preservation God
Some guy spent his life's work on this,and then an invading religion wrecked it.

It's Holi's Fault
Trust Me, This Time I Didn't Do It.