You can get a lot of details I don’t have time to write about on Chris’ blog. I spent most of my time here working on pictures. Here are some unrelated things:
- We believe Aman, the Indian guy we met on our first day in Goa, was trying to scam us. The next day after we had met him he was still being extremely nice to us, helping us get motorbikes and such. He introduced us to his 2 friends that night and we all just sat around by the ocean front restaurant and drank beer and talked. The next day when we were eating breakfast at the restaurant his 2 friends started talking to us again, actually giving us a lot of great suggestions about places to go in India. Then they started telling us about how they buy jewelry and get foreigners to take it with them overseas so they can avoid export taxes and sell the jewelry for a large profit. They asked us if we were interested and of course we said no even after being pushed a bit. It was slightly awkward then and Aman never even really talked to us for more than a couple minutes after, although he was still friendly. It’s true, it’s difficult to trust anyone here.
- I often feel more like the attraction here than the tourist. We’re stared at all the time. People are constantly shaking our hands and asking us where we are from. The braver ones that have cameras ask to take their picture with us. The children and people without cameras ask us to take their picture and have us show it to them. The other day at a temple some kids asked me to take their picture and it escalated rapidly into a large group of Indian people interchanging different combinations while I take their picture and show it to them. The adults were a little more bashful but would still laugh and smile when I showed them their picture and then would ask for me to take their shy daughter’s picture. A small fraction of them are in the picture set below.
I went crazy and uploaded too many of them here: Flickr Slideshow
Here are 12 of them:
the pictures are great! ive watched them twice already! my parents love them too! Sorry about that indian fellow, can’t trust them all. i love you!
dood I want some jewelry. hahaha.
awesome pictures! please keep up the great posting!
Lot’s of people everywhere that you can’t trust. Interesting experience. I like the white buffalo with the excellent horns in traffic and the blessing elephant!! Adventure on dudes.
And I like the wind turbines and monkeys. People are handsome and they dress well for some reason. Wonder what India was like when people were using those temples.
Thanks for all the pictures!
I wonder what Buddha would think to see the country as it is now, overpopulated by people spreading trash and dirt?
Tavel on, we love the unscented photos!
I am going to start blessing people by taking their money and smacking them on the head.
it’s like the elephant is trying you tell you that you should of had a V8