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Published: October 25th 2010
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Such good intentions gone wrong.
Left the guesthouse with the intention of climbing a steep hill for the sunset. Great exercise and views were planned!
Bumped into Klaus and Annette whilst leaving and got dragged back in for Chai. Eventually left with not too much time to get to the hill, but hopefully enough! Got given a flower by a boy, led to the lake which i planned on walking around - but of course had to throw the flower in for good luck.
Then I got double priested, had to make blessing for all my family and friends (this includes listing all of them). Thing is that they charge you per person (great morals the priests have!), so yesterday i didn’t have friends, didn’t have grandparents and only a mum and dad. Sorry, but it was too expensive!
Eventually got away 115 rupees shorter and bumped into a bunch of people from Tazmania - 5 girls and a guy. Got talking and eventually went to dinner with them for a good old fashioned Indian Mexican Vegetarian Enchilada which was shockingly tasty!
Being a holy city, alcohol and drugs are not allowed here, although it is
Sikhs
They may only have one temple in the whole of Pushkar, but hell it's cool. The party temple! common knowledge that you can drink Bhang Lassis - basically a smoothie with a derivative or weed in it…….
All decided that we ‘may as well have one’, ‘just to see’, ‘when in rome’ and so on.
About an hour later, sitting in their guesthouse garden watching everyone start giggling manically about nothing, wondering just how strong much their placebo effect be?! But then it hit me too.
Walked back to my guesthouse by street light, taking a very scenic rambling sort of route. The gate was shut and all lights off. In my intoxicated state I start trying to work out how to get in and get someones attention when I hear someone say ‘hello’. No idea where it came from, can’t see anyone, so I’m turning in circles confused before realising that there is someone in the building in the dark about a foot from me all along.
Go in my room and look in the mirror.
Wow, hallucinations. This clearly isn’t just weed.
Looking at myself in the mirror, my limbs seem to stretch away from my body and i can change my shape as if I were looking in a
curved mirror at a fair. I squat and it makes me look like tweedle dee from Alice in Wonderland.
Have a text on my phone so I look down and see that all the lights are flickering very rapidly in different colors! All very bizarre! Eventually, things became a little paranoid, so force myself to lie down and try to sleep through it, but have to get up every few minutes to drink water because its made my mouth completely dry!
Woke this morning with a fairly mean hangover. One drink, 50 rupees, whole night of complete insanity! Not too shabby. Don’t think I’ll drink it again somehow. Should be meeting them all again a little later, already seen them once today and they were all retreating back to bed for more recovery!
Thinking about missing out Jaipur completely now because I love this city and its complete hippy backpackerness.
Went for a haircut earlier and agreed to a head massage as well. In my relaxed state i thought the guy said ‘First massage?’. Realised a few seconds later whilst being mauled, that he said ‘Face massage?’. Ah well, i feel fresh faced in any case,
which is a whole lot better than how I was feeling a few hours ago!
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