31.3.2008 Life brings surprises! I love life and the surprises it brings, let it be bad or good. I have no idea what's around the corner or who is around the corner but I had yet another experience of it today at the internet café. I met a really cool Swedish guy who lives in Varanasi and studies here. As I had wondered what it's be like to live and study here some time ago it was funny to meet him. We just exchanged emails in case I had questions to ask h...

31.3.2008 Back from Lumbini Its funny how anxious I was getting about travelling to Lumbini and back. And as much as it wasnt great fun at times, hot, sticky roads and challenges I amback in Varanasi, clean and relaxed. Lumbini was an absolute ghost town. Most people go there for day trip and the ones who do stay the night tend to disappear as soon as they have seen the sights. The town itself is very relaxed and quiet, as Nepali people dont tend to hassle th...

28.3.2008 In Nepal Dont let the photo to fool you, that was the only nepal photo I could locate on this website. I have srossed the border today from Varanasi and currently in Lumbini for 2 nights. It was rather chaotic journey, but I guess it could have been worse. I got to the train station at 11.30pm and found a group of people heading for the border also. Really funny bunch, who have been travelling on and off together for 3 months in India. Marco, an 6...

27.3.2008 Alone again! Judith left at lunch time, it was so weird saying goodbye to her. The past 3 weeks went by so fast and as much as we had great time I'm still very sad to wave her goodbye in her taxi... So I'm alone again, but coping well. I'm getting more and more used to the idea of being alone during my travels. People keep coming and going, and its good to know that i will be seeing some again, some unknown... I will be heading for the Nepal borader...

26.3.2008 Varanasi is the place to die This is one of the first things our taxi driver said this morning when we arrived in Varanasi at 7.30am. "People come to Varanasi for 2 reasons, to learn and to die". In hinduism the belief is that anyone's ashes spread to Ganges will directly go to heaven so there is a home where people come to stay and die. It was also inevitable that we would see many cremations along the Ganges today, as we took an evening ...