Month: November 2016

Now dealing with the cash crisis in Goa.

Will be paying in Euros here for my accommodation and I hope my tab at the Hungry Gecko.

Update

Have had time and decent power and wife coinciding. So here is more Goa.

Street stalls

Out side the Cactus alley

The Cactus alley

Guys from the Hungry Geckos

Deepak in his Che t shirt

Roshan  and the nights fish

The crew. We arrived together and left together mostly.

L-R Matt, Anastasia , Daniela , Jon, myself, bit dark, but hey it was!

After some heavy rain the sky cleared a bit.

The crew were an interesting bunch, Matt and Daniela work for an NGO that tracks political violence, she lives in Delhi, and is from Austria. He is Canadian and lives in Ottawa.

Jon was a shipbuilder from Norway, working in oil these days and in Goa for a yoga workshop.

Anastasia,  who we met there was Belarus/Israeli.

The Hungry Geckos guys were great, and the Cactus people where I stayed. Paid in Euros, Indian cash crisis and all that.

Deepak and Roshan, and I suspect t the others, are from Nepal.

This is Akil who drove us around Rajasthan in his diesel Suzuki. Sooner him than me on Indian roads I must say.

Even though we could not verbally communicate he did in other ways.

view from Honeymoon point, that is a marble mine out the.

Altitude 1200m I believe, was actually cold for the first time in India.

And should have checked this out.

pretty impressive fortress this one. A few  km of walls.

Will update today’s posts later if I get wifi to use my tablet.

And there were of course temples.

Then we went on to a big temple complex, a Jain temple in Ranakpur

Impressive whare the Maharana has, he still has 20 or so luxury hotels, can’t make the rules and sit around smoking opium with one of many wives like his predecessor s though. Well not officially anyway.

While we were in Udaipur the “demonetirisation” happened,  all of a sudden 500 and 1000 rupee notes were no longer valid, but could be swapped or exchanged via the banks.

To gut the Black economy, and to create queues at banks ATMs etc.

Heading North from here in a few minutes more later

 

We went to Jays temple and I got to meet the guru

Part of his lodgings.

 

In Navipur with Jay now after long drive from Mumbai.

Appreciating Jameson Whiskey with Jays Dad and his friend.

Jay and his Dad outside in the morning.

Just been uploading images faster than ever at Chikita,  eating there as the Charwarmas lured me. Thee wifi kept me.

Gandhi

Around the northwest Coast

Local gas reticulation.

The hotel getting a water refill

Chai,  dinner last night and breakfast this morning were here

Lunch elsewhere

Local Motor bikes, Royal Enfields

Had to try the crushed sugar cane

The Museum of modern art was shut for change of exhibition, but nearby an art antique shop allowed me to take some pics. About $2k NZD per head.

There was a great one in the Window, didn’t manage a decent photo of it though.

As the day goes on the place gets more lively, then after dark it really starts up.

That above is where I got my breakfast, now serving different food.

And the Swastika bedecked pizza place

The corner outside my room

This guy was my waiter at dinner, also seen him in the hotel.

More night workers