India - Day 11 - Amravati Temple

Bad thing happened this morning.

I was in the loo and i dropped the toilet paper!!! The floor was covered in water and as you know, toilet paper is very absorbent!!! :(

Update rest of day later


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Update: Ok, so after a rather hectic start with the whole toilet paper dropping thing, the day started rolling smoothly. We went for a long drive to Amravati Temple in Amravati. Really interesting drive as there was just soo much to see, as always here in India. The temple was quite amazing and i got an amazing sense of peace whilst inside. It kinda reminded me of a scene from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". Just because of all the chanting, the clothes that a lot of people were wearing and also this plate full of fire (you touch the flame!) to pray. Outside there were a lot of beggars so me and Veni gave them some money and i took a couple of photos. It is really hard tho because as soon as you give just one coin/note away, everyone wants some. So you just have to be tough and say thats enough. There were 3 kids with a monkey so that made a wicked shot :)

After, we travelled to Sai Baba temple which Lakshmi (Veni's mum) is a treasurer and helped build. Beautiful building! So we spent a while in prayer to Shirdi Sai Baba. The other day with the fortune teller, the card i got was of Shirdi Sai Baba so in a way i felt connected to this saint god. Especially with what the teller said.

We then travelled to Amits old school which was cool. It was really funny just imaging a little Amit running around being cheeky. Took a couple of cool photos there. Its funny the beautiful things you see that most people would never look twice at when you just look around. Will put them in the gallery.

So we got home and then it was Amits turn to get his fortune told by the parrot. It was funny because he got similar things to me with the business and money side. So maybe that is a really good sign that we will be in for a good year next year. One thing i learned is that the lines on your palm change all the time depending on what direction your life is taking. I was'nt going to get my fortune told again but i did end up getting my palm read. So i am going to be wealthy, very happy, i will become famous, i will be on TV some time next year, people will be jealous of me for some reason, i will have a life changing event in the next 3 months, he also told me that i was due to have a serious accident but for a strange reason it did'nt happen. The rest of the deep stuff i will keep for myself ;)

One thing that is different about Vijayawada are the mosquito's!! We have just walked back and were eaten alive! And when i say eaten, i mean EATEN!! They are vicious and if you don't cover up then you will look like a prune. We are about to go to a club (not a night club) where we will play games and have dinner. Cant wait!

will leave it at that


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