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Finally I got the time to finish uploading the photos of our trip to India. I have been very busy taking photos and practicing the sitar recently.
Santiniketan is definitely a sweet place to be. Although the mosquitos there were fiercious. I was at the cafe where I felt a lot of mosquitos were attacking my feet at the same time. As Ploy said " new comer!". Yes. I was new there and probably tasted exotic. I ended up with feet like Micky Mouse.
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| This is a great place for having a cup of coffee with friends.Even the dog was waiting for a cup! |
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| We had coffee with our friend Soukata who's learning Japanese and speaking it fluently. |
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| Yo took me to this lovely restaurant a little far away from the town and on the way there we were surrounded by fresh air, trees, and fire bugs. |
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| I do miss Indian food very much. I ate so much! |
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| while we were eating, we had power cuts, and mosquito attack, but this didn't stop us from enjoying the food. The coffee we ordered tasted funny though. I think they gave us tea instead. |
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| We visited our friend Thinley who's from Tibet and studying in Santiniketan.He made us lovely Tibetan food. Truely delicious! |
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| cycling is the best way to go to places even though our tires broke several times |
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| Always happy to go to see Guruji. Sweet family! Pinkydi makes delicious food! My favourite is her fish curry! |
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| old style tabla machine at Guruji's |
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| so many switches I never knew which one was for what | |
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| Kazu-san invited us to her house for dinner on the roof top.I love her kitchen! |
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| It was cool and relaxing on the rooftop. There were a lot of fire bugs flying between trees to trees, branches to branches. Kazu-san made some simple Japanese dishes! There were light yet tasty! I miss her food too! |
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| our trip seemed so short. I felt really sad leaving Santiniketan. Truely a peaceful place with kind people. |
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| Tinku the owner of the guest house we stayed at. A very kind man with super kind heart.He's going to be a father soon! |
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| At the train station heading back to Kalkatta. |
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| everyday I wrote about my trip in India. Everything I saw, everyone I met, all the great things I had never encountered before.I wrote a lot so that I wouldnt' forget them. |
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| We expected monsoon in India but it rained so little during the time we were there. When we got back to Kalkatta , it was pouring rain and here you can see a little flood! |
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Back to the noisy and crazy Kalkatta. I was less frustrated, but still wished I was still in Santiniketan. We left India unwillingly and we were chatting about this trip so much. When we arrived Taipei, I found it so quiet, clean and peaceful, which was a strange feeling.
I can't find the perfect word to describe India. The advertisement says " Incredible India!". It's for sure. But Yo says it's more like " unpredicable India". I agree with him. You can't expect what you are going to see, who you are going to meet, what's going to happen. It's always full of surprises there. I am really grateful that I had the opportunity to visit India and I believe that everyone should go to India at least once in their life. What should you bring to India? An open heart and some toilet paper.
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