chillin' like villains...

ok... so no one hazarded a guess about aurangabad... which saddens me a little, but i'll ignore that and move on...

this is gonna be a non-pic post i'm afraid. i forgot my camera chord back in the apt and i'm too darn lazy to head back and get it... so perhaps tomorrow you can see some purdy pictures.

after our day around mumbai we packed ourselves into a very small 4x4 ( a toyota qualis, i think?) and braved the highway to aurangabad at 5:30 am on thursday morning... 'twas crazyness... as i've said before there are few rules of the road, save for:
1. if s/o is ahead of you and you wish to pass, blare your horn as long as
possible while moving ahead of them into oncoming traffic and swerving back
into your lane only at the last possible second
2. the only time you don't follow the aformentioned rule if the traffic ahead
of you is a large mac truck
3.honk for no reason whatsoever, just to wake up any sleeping passengers
4. avoid the cows

anyway, the purpose of our 3 day trip were the elloraand ajanta caves, just outside of aurungabad. they're these massive caves full of hindu, buddhist, and jain temples, built into these caves which have been cut out of sheer rock face and run deep into the mountains... the carvings and surviving paintings in some are amazing and apparently took years to complete... i can only imagine how many people they had working on them.(there are tonnes of pics for these so i'll post them tomorrow)

and again we were the centre of attention with people constantly asking for pictures with us or just walking up and taking one as though we were part of the package tour. the weather was pretty damn hot too so walking several kilometres each day in the blazing sun for hours was SOO much fun. luckily it wasn't humid at all so it was somewhat more bearable than mumbai...

after the cave we headed back to mumbain (another 8 hours stuffed into a car) and after developing pics for our driver nahesh (?? dunno what his name was actually, we just called him 'bo') we hopped onto the skeeeeziest night train i've had the privilege of riding in. (actually it was my first ever train experience... hahaha)it was a sleeper train that arrived in goa the next morning at 11 am, and was so grotty!oh and i'm pretty sure the worst thing i've EVER smelled are the mumbai train stations... (i'll let people sit and imagine that thought for a second)

so now that we've arrived in goa, and have found the weather very much to our liking, we've decided to stay here at least 4 or 5 days... which is perfect after all the hectic running around we've been doing. we've done next to nothing all day, some folk went to town to shop in the market and eugene and i wandered around anjuna (northern goa) near our awesome little guest house and got accosted by crazy lamani women who attempt to guilt trip you into buying something (theyr'e quite effective but i drive a hard bargain... ahh, who am i kidding, they probably totally ripped me off!)

but now it's 9:30 pm and we're heading off to Tito's, some legendary goan bar to dance the night away... but not drink as it's the elections right now and no one is allowed to serve alcohol past 10 pm. urgh. PLUS after the 31st there's a complete ban on alcohol until the 5th of june. goa will be VERY quiet for a while.

ok enough talking... pics tomorrow, tonight we party !