Bunny!
I'm sick and achy and everyone here is naked.
Bangkok, like India's beach mecca Goa, is a haven for parties and coconut-colored tans. I hate it, I want India back. The plan is just to be in Singapore for my flight out in early March. I don't have any useful guidebooks left (just Mongolia!), so the route is up for grabs among the sweltering skies, jungles, and stone-carved deities.
I want India back- a place where people fleece you out of necessity, not greed. A place where men and women so enthralled me with their conservative dress that the avalanche of calves and thighs poking out of short denim skirts has thrown me dizzyingly backward. A place where surprises greet you by the moment, where your tears are washed away by an old (albeit 11 year-old) friend running to catch-up and say goodbye. It may be a niche I need to discover, or the gardens, classical dancing and temples of splendor, but I'm too worn out to try. This is the first time in the trip that a feeling of lethargy and apathy has overcome me. I'll sleep some more, and try and find out if I can catch a ferry from the Cambodian coast to Thailand's spur in my journey southward.
I'm working on a site extension (organized like the notebook but with thumbnails) with my favorite photographs- high resolution- from this trip. If there are any images you'd like to see added, comment and let me know.
p.s. Happy February! As a child I believed that natural law required your first word of the month to be 'bunny,' so on this day, I started with a single word. Anyone else?
Bangkok, like India's beach mecca Goa, is a haven for parties and coconut-colored tans. I hate it, I want India back. The plan is just to be in Singapore for my flight out in early March. I don't have any useful guidebooks left (just Mongolia!), so the route is up for grabs among the sweltering skies, jungles, and stone-carved deities.
I want India back- a place where people fleece you out of necessity, not greed. A place where men and women so enthralled me with their conservative dress that the avalanche of calves and thighs poking out of short denim skirts has thrown me dizzyingly backward. A place where surprises greet you by the moment, where your tears are washed away by an old (albeit 11 year-old) friend running to catch-up and say goodbye. It may be a niche I need to discover, or the gardens, classical dancing and temples of splendor, but I'm too worn out to try. This is the first time in the trip that a feeling of lethargy and apathy has overcome me. I'll sleep some more, and try and find out if I can catch a ferry from the Cambodian coast to Thailand's spur in my journey southward.
I'm working on a site extension (organized like the notebook but with thumbnails) with my favorite photographs- high resolution- from this trip. If there are any images you'd like to see added, comment and let me know.
p.s. Happy February! As a child I believed that natural law required your first word of the month to be 'bunny,' so on this day, I started with a single word. Anyone else?
posted by Maya at 2:59 AM
8 Comments:
Hmm. I can't say that I've ever treated the first day of any month any differently than any other day with the exception of paying bills or the start of a new year.
Have fun in the rest of your journey and have a safe trip back!
Oh shit. I started with the wrong word!
i say the first word of each month should be the result of a ceremonious coin flip the results of which are as follows: heads="Triumph!", tails="Torture!" followed by a deep sigh and a big bite of cake (or a taco if you are so lucky as to live in a place that has tacos) in fact, let me revise that. at the beginning of each month one should rise to the morning throw hands into the air and scream "TACO!"
omfg - u seem to have had a wonderful holiday here in india. i envy you now bcoz i haven't travelled as much and i bet, if i woudl have i would've just photoblogged and cudn't have spoken as much as you did. am surprised you did not visit bangalore and hyderabad - two wonderful cities where atleast u could compare them with metropolis and ya, they do have a wonderful culture as well..
ur enjoying bankok now - wow !!
elaborate more abt ur trips to goa and kerala - would love to read more about them :)
visit my photoblog to have a few glimpses of what i saw at goa recently.. there are more to come anyways and now, i need a long break to atleast roam as much as you did :D
Go north up to Chiang Mai. It's much better vibe there. Or Sukhothai (Lotus Village is a nice haven). Or Nakhon Si Thammarat and play in the surf with Thais.
We always say "white rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits" - I don't know why!
good site
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