The events come thick and fast! Impressive moments over now move faster to me than I can remember. We left Rishikesh after four days of relaxed after arriving on the subcontinent to
Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan
to drive. This we did by train in the sleeper, which was very informative about Indian eating habits. Together with an old, very established and dignified couple and a single Lord, we divided the doorless compartment. Since we are not yet on the food, which is distributed without the train (I hope for a slow, gentle adaptation of the bacterial cultures of my Ate body), only this nice old couple. However, I can not remember ever having heard such a human, such as smacking of the old lady, who handed over to me while her bare feet in order to rest next to me on the bench. We were honored not look while eating. Cutlery is not already part of the repertoire of self-conscious Indian. What did scare me but only me and where I not help a grin and chuckle was directed away from her was when these 69 annual repeatedly enjoyable and belched loudly. Later we came to talk and we were told that the two religious at a conference of its normally in the USA lehrenden Gurus waren. Lange religiöse Gesänge folgten die besser seihen als das getratsche anderer Leute die sich abends mit nichts besserem beschäftigen könnten, wie mir der alte versicherte. Sie sangen uns sozusagen in den Schlaf.
Aufgewacht sind wir, als der Zug in Jaipur anhielt, gut dass sie stets so 15 Minuten warten... Die gefühlten 5000 Rikschafahrer um 4:30 früh konnten erfolgreich abgewehrt werden.
Fortsetzung Charlotte: Unsere Haupterkenntnis der letzten Woche lautet: Everything is possible in Inia :) Wir haben in Jaipur sehr viel erlebt - oft gibt es kaum weißhäutige Touristen in den Orten und ständig kommen Inder und wollen uns kennenlernen, Pictures do speak a little English. Thus we have in Jaipur at the very beginning a very dear students on the way to know the old town, in Calcutta and studied was just in the Semsterferien with his family and the way a little work.
He dragged us right into the chai (tea) room on the road in order to meet his friends.
We spent the whole day with him and he took us to the secret (non-tourist) places of Jaipur, as the only inhabited by monkeys, Monkey Temple, or the Water Palace. This place was terrific monkey, the little we have eaten out of hand and we have the mistiriösen Monkey-Man met as the einziger Mensch im Tempel zu wohnen scheint. Wir quetschten unseren neuen Freund derweil über die indische Kultur wie die üblichen arrangierten Hochzeiten und er uns über die deutsche Kultur aus. Bester Beweis der Überlegenheit arrangierter Hochzeiten sei die geringe Scheidungsrate von 10 % ... Zwischendurch gab es immer wieder Momente, in denen wir nicht richtig wussten wie die Situation einzuschätzen ist. z.b. ob es ok ist, den Tee zu trinken oder ob Drogen drin sind (sowas kann in den Zügen passieren, daher soll man dort nie etwas zu essen annehmen). Ich habe dann z.B. Uwe den Tee zuerst trinken lassen und eine Weile gewartet :)
Manchmal haben wir uns auch auf Deutsch discussed. Ultimately, however, it was all very innocent - our true friendship Indians sought and was sugar-sweet.
on next commit day we visited the Palace of the winds and we arranged to meet again with the friendly Indians to lunch and he Uwe dragged to the barber (and there interpretation. Fortunately, because it involved the creation of a kind Beckham mohawk hairstyle .. new to the hairdresser and fun for all customers of the store).
another day we spent in Pushkar
- although it's usually supposed to be a great place it was there not so nice. The Holy See has recently been poisoned (where the official version, we believe that he is simply upset by all the garbage) and was excavated, the Indians were unfriendly and annoying because of the general situation (there are hardly any Indian tourists, since they know that). Due to the general sanctity was then not even alcohol, of which we had the place to drink good ...
So we went on to Ajmer and have now landed in Udaipur
. Today
Diwali - the Festival of Lights - one of the most important Hindu festivals of India (comparable to Christmas). We are in Udaipur, a beautiful town in southern Rajasthan - for me the most beautiful place where we were before. The atmosphere is now especially, because decorate for Diwali, the Indians their houses with lights, paper flowers and garlands, they paint the floor in front of their doorways and give themselves to sweets. Tonight, Diwali is celebrated with fireworks and similar to our New Year's Eve are throwing the streets already full of children, the Pops:)
Happy Diwali:)
In the Himalayas there is a mountain range called Annapurna Himal . This leads one trekking route - and this I have followed for 12 days. Sometimes alone, mostly of people from all over the world. This beautiful trail passes through many small-hinuistische Nepalese or Tibetan Buddhist villages, through forests, across rivers, wild mountains, rice fields, snow and debris. There 
Every day there is a new environment and at least the first 9 days and ever-decreasing temperatures. Of the season in the 400 trekkers fortunately nothing more to see - and the fact that we have rarely made an alarm clock, I probably owe met hardly anyone to be on the trail. 
The rice farmers have harvested, dried, sorted, drove the donkeys up the hill and friendly greetings. Je höher der Weg, umso größer der Anteil der tibetischen Buddhisten. Weiter oben gibt es auch immer öfter leckeren Yak-Käse und die entsprechenden Produzenten. Angefangen hab ich mit zwei Franzosen und einem Belgier, runtergekommen bin ich mit einem Mexikaner, drei Leuten aus den USA, einem Kanadier, nem Briten, einem Mädel aus Polen und einem Belgier. Das geht verdammt schnell, die Leute sind extrem locker und kontaktfreudig - da passt man sich an. Das letzte Stück war schwierig, die letzte Nacht hab ich kaum geschlafen, die Atmung beschleunigt - natürlich auch während des Wanderns und mit vielen Pausen durchsetzt. Schokoladenriegen werden zur ertragreichen Handelsware eines jeden Hostels oder Restaurants. Unser finales Ziel - heiße Quellen um den Muskelkater zu beruhigen hatten wir schließlich auch irgendwann erreicht. Des Nepalesen Leibgericht Dal Bath, hatte ich erstmal gemieden - das war ein wenig zu oft. Da bekommt man einfach Lust auf schönde Pizza. 
Nach ein paar Tagen Pause war ich noch im Langtag-Tal für vier Tage wandern. Ganz anders, viel mehr verschiedene Vegetationszonen und andere Leute, weniger touristen-gewöhnt und natürlicher. Das war fast noch schöner, Bilder sind ja schon zu sehen. 
Der Norden Indiens ist eher kalt geraten - das Bild entstand in Manali . Bevor dort der Winter einbrach war ich klettern Mit'n British, Nick, a little hiking in the surrounding mountains have, eat delicious momos (Tibetan dumplings filled) of the evening I warmed the oven, trying to slow the speed of my gut. 
On the way to a destination for Indians on a thick population of this country was photographed on a donkey, he rose to this solely for that purpose, we passed through small villages with uniformed school children. We also visited NEN boring waterfall and great super hot springs at a Hindu temple in the not I could stand longer than 5 minutes at a time. At least it was at last hills and less Indian. Miners are real vieeeel relaxed - I could even read out every few hours and was only raised where I was from, as my father would be so 
From there I went to Amritsar - the city of the Sikh and Golden Temple of Pakistan near the border. The Sikhs are a minority religion in India and have been so few have to participate. They are not so much on religious rituals and see the Sikhism rather than philosophy. like part of the interaction and therefore they offer free food and sleeping space for each. In return I have something donated, washed and peeled potatoes - Visit as most of the others the temple. 
but I slept in a separate section for tourists - but it was so funny. One day we drove to the border about 70 miles away with a very funky show on both sides. Pakistan may like Indian soldiers (are the two States, as is well known not particularly green) completed call a kind of synchronized dance with inserts what soldier longest. Children on both sides were running a race with national flags on both sides and this was rewarded with applause each. 
However, only the Indian side had tribune filling tourists. The Pakistanis had to numerically inferior anyway, with veiled women, after all, extremely agile and give children happy. Then I was in Lucknow , a town on the way to Nepal. There was a lot of administrative buildings of the British admire that were then immediately taken by the Indians who behave now compared to the infantry not unlike their predecessors. Somehow a little ' Animal Farm'. There I visited India after all, the first supermarket - a celebration! There was real chocolate ... :) 
Varanasi , die Stadt des Gottes Shiva , scheint die Stadt der Extreme, Leben und Tod sind hier so dicht beieinander, wie kaum anderswo in Indien. Um den ewigen Kreislauf der Wiedergeburten zu durchbrechen und sich von den Reinkarnationen zu erlösen, werden die sterblichen Überreste der Hindus (in Form von Asche, wer sich die ca. 50 € leisten kann, sonst auch im Stück) in Varanasi dem heiligen Ganges übergeben. So finden die Totenverbrennungen in aller Öffentlichkeit statt und wir wurden Zeuge dieser Rituale, bei dem die Leiche zuerst von den Angehörigen zum Verbrennungsplatz getragen und dann beim Verbrennen erstaunlich emotionsarm betrachtet wird. 
Upstream and downstream of Hindus wash their sins in order to improve their karma and hopefully eventually get to in a future life to enlightenment. The extremely high concentration of coliform bacteria, which would probably guarantee every clueless Westerners a several-day break, prevents the devout Hindu no intention to brush the teeth with this water to wash the laundry and not least the complete own body. Conducive to the search for enlightenment, it is also, illustrations and sculptures to hand over the revered deities of the river - whether still unpacked in packaging, plastic bag or. Therefore, every day a lot of large and small bags in the Ganges thrown, as well as individual sculptures, pictures, flower garlands and sacrificed food. In the evening, hundreds of small floating bowls, filled with flower petals and handed a lighted candle to the reaches of the Ganges and it forms a very quiet, charming atmosphere. 
almost extinct, except for ground squirrels and monkeys hordes it is at the other bank of the River. Externally it is very reminiscent of the big brother, but inside it is full of little stories and preserves the atmosphere, die sicher alle irgendwann mal passiert sein müssen. Auch dies ist ein Mausoleum, jedoch im Gegensatz zum großen Bruder kein kommerzielles. Und nicht zu vergessen, diese unglaublich putzigen Erdhörnchen. 
Diwali war toll! Nach einer Tretbootfahrt auf dem Pichola-See, umschlossen von Udaipur, und seinerseits wiederum zwei Paläste beinhaltend, haben wir die Knallerei anfangs mehr, später nur noch bedingt genossen und sind durch die Innenstadt gezogen. Lange Schlangen von Männern und Frauen bildeten sich vor einem Tempel, dessen Gott für die Verbesserung der finanziellen Situation eingespannt ist. Andere Tempel waren auch well attended. As we all a little too much - and that was long before the streets had emptied - we retreated to our little balcony with a beer and Bengal lights of looking at the very long-lasting fireworks. Where "long" is easier to measure in days rather than in hours. Indians are so accustomed to some it seems to me - and ear plugs are blessed. 
