Saturday, April 14, 2007

So spring break was really fun, despite the ridiculous amount of time I spent on unpleasant busses. On tuesday, I met up with Josh and Kyle here. It was really strange, because Josh was the first person I've seen here, who I knew from before being here. It was really interesting hearing about their travels all over India, and it makes me realize how sheltered we are here in Dharamsala on this program (traveling also made me realize that). They helped me catch the bus that night and gave me good advice about traveling. That night Will D and I took the overnight bus to Dehra Dun. It was like a 15 hour bus ride, and when we got there I lost him, but I did manage to meet up with Will and Marissa, who were coming from Tso Pema, and we called Will D, and eventually met up with him again, so that was all good. The next morning (at like 4:30). Will and I got on a bus to Ramnagar (that was about a 7 hour trip). We met Elise and her brother Luke there, and the next day, we went to Corbett national park. There was an awful lot of bureacracy to deal with, but we eventually got in. We went on a safari that afternoon, and saw a tiger and her cubs, a lot of elephants, some deer, monkeys, birds, and crocodiles. Luke and Will both have good digital cameras, so I'll try to steal some of their picutes, but I'll post some of my pictures that I took too. We went out again the next morning and saw more elephants. We also sat on a watchtower and looked for more animals (well they did...it was really warm out, and I fell asleep instead). That night Will and I caught a bus to Haridwar. The next day we went rafting on the Ganga (the Ganges) in Rishikesh (about an hour away from Haridwar). I wandered around Haridwar some too. I didn't get to see any temples because we thought the bus back to Dharamsala left earlier than it actually did, but I did walk down by the Ganga. That's kind of the summary of what happened, and I'll post pictures too.

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