We went to Vrindaban and Mathura...
We learned that....
- There are monkeys with bad eyesight but good aim - one stole Francesco's glasses right off his head - and wouldn't give them back until we bribed him with a packet of biscuits and an Indian sweet.
- There are endless Sadhu competitions available in the two towns. Ideas include: trendiest all-white clothing, funkiest hair/mustache, thickest glasses, most creative forehead
- There is a magician (above) who uses a broken bottle as a telephone and claims to be able to turn me into an Indian man (my worst nightmare).
- What looks like a 10 year old boy working in a roadside food stall could be a 30 year old man with a wife and children in disguise - the lack of facial hair gives him away - he's just trying to avoid trouble for being a child laborer.
- There are as many stalls serving fresh, 'clean' water as there are people to serve it.
- There are rickshaw drivers willing to dig in the open sewer for a dropped lens cap to our new camera.
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