10/jan walking & rickshaw
IT's monday, and we go to the turist info. Yesterday it was closed. After that, we decide to go to the botanical garden, and to reach it you need to walk 5 or 6 km. It's only a nice excuse to take a direction, and start walking through the city, constantly surprising. We pass through the lungs of kolkata, the meidan. A huge extension of nothingness, dust, and a few parks and criquet stadiums (even if small). Criquet is the national sport in india. To reach the botanical we first need to cross a bridge, that connects kolkata to another city. ANd this bridge is an imitation of the san francisco bridge. After walking in the sidewalk of the road, we find a policeman, that tells us that we can not cross the bridge by foot, and that we have to go back, and take a taxi. WE menage to find a cheap one. And it's so funny because as I wrote in the others posts, everyone is using the horn (claxon) all the time. So, when we were waiting after a car, to pay the bridge fee, our taxi driver started horning even before the other driver could pay the fee. It's so meaningless and ridiculous!!! they just like to horn!
Once in the park, we walked around for a couple of hours, and saw one of the biggest banyan trees in india, with a circunference of 400 m, and made by thousands of roots. Quite impressive. After that, and since the bengal engeneering college was there, we decided to eat at the cantine, and was too cheap. one and a half dishes for 12 RS!! (0.25euro). After that, we took a bus to a bazaar area, seeing monkeys on the roof of a house, caws, goats... in the middle of the street. The bazaar was full of men, only a woman every once in a while, but vrey very few, probably because the market wasn't a food market. And then we started walking home, but it was too far, after spending the whole day walking. So we decided to take a rickshaw. Our first rickshaw. I Took me a while to accept taking it. I don't really like the idea of using the man strengh ( of a really thin and dirty man), as I could use the horses strengh, or any other animal. But I guess that this transport is a very important part of the india history, due to the casts, or maybe due to the weather, I don't know. I don't even know if they own the rickshaw, or they work for a company or for a man... it was a new experience anyway. The rickshaws here are very old, with wooden weels and wooden suspensions. So, the pass you all the irregularities from the ground to you bones. It was good because we were too tired, and the speed is almost the same as when we walk a little bit fast. And as you are in a higher position, you can see more than often, and the most important tihng, you don't have to worry about the traffic.
After taking a nap (migdiada), we had dinner with jody and ben, from australia. After that, reading time at our guest house, and after 10 minutes, the rain.
13/1/05
Once in the park, we walked around for a couple of hours, and saw one of the biggest banyan trees in india, with a circunference of 400 m, and made by thousands of roots. Quite impressive. After that, and since the bengal engeneering college was there, we decided to eat at the cantine, and was too cheap. one and a half dishes for 12 RS!! (0.25euro). After that, we took a bus to a bazaar area, seeing monkeys on the roof of a house, caws, goats... in the middle of the street. The bazaar was full of men, only a woman every once in a while, but vrey very few, probably because the market wasn't a food market. And then we started walking home, but it was too far, after spending the whole day walking. So we decided to take a rickshaw. Our first rickshaw. I Took me a while to accept taking it. I don't really like the idea of using the man strengh ( of a really thin and dirty man), as I could use the horses strengh, or any other animal. But I guess that this transport is a very important part of the india history, due to the casts, or maybe due to the weather, I don't know. I don't even know if they own the rickshaw, or they work for a company or for a man... it was a new experience anyway. The rickshaws here are very old, with wooden weels and wooden suspensions. So, the pass you all the irregularities from the ground to you bones. It was good because we were too tired, and the speed is almost the same as when we walk a little bit fast. And as you are in a higher position, you can see more than often, and the most important tihng, you don't have to worry about the traffic.
After taking a nap (migdiada), we had dinner with jody and ben, from australia. After that, reading time at our guest house, and after 10 minutes, the rain.
13/1/05
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