Tuesday, December 18, 2007 ++

hello!
im back from india!
whoa.
its a very eye-opening experience indeed.
you'll never get to see any sight of those in spore.
not even in little india.
haha.

yeah. i went to the rural areas of india.
there's 4 main places that i travel to.
lumbini(nepal), where siddhartha(buddha) was born.
bodhgaya, where siddhartha got enlightenment and became buddha.
sarnath, where buddha preached his first sermon.
kushinager, where buddha attain nirvana(died).

on the way, we also visited places where buddha's stupa was built, the palace he used to live in, places where he used to stayed at for a period of time to preach.

sadly. all these that we visited are all excuvated by the archeologist.
and they're all destroyed by the muslims last time when india was once dominated by them.
so we only see small, destroyed parts that were dugged up,
so we have to use alot of our imagination.
went to their archeologist musuem too.
damn interesting. haha.

also, we went to the ganges river, varanasi.
wah.. this river ah. dirty seh.
haha. however, it is a very holy river to the hindu.
therefore, the hindus will bath, wash clothes, and even cremate dead bodies there.
all at the same ganges river, jus different parts of it.
as in they separate into different segment for different purpose.
but still. water flows, pple litter. and hence, very polluted.
hahaha. i saw men in their G-STRING. damn funny.
somemore the weather is so so cold in the morning.
wonder how this pple can tahan. hahahaha.
and they wash their clothes but smacking it against the rock.
the place where pple cremate bodies is more cool. haha.
they have 2 place for it. 1 for commoners, another one for the more special pple.
its jus one wide space, with piles and piles of black black things.... yeah.
and fire..
our guide says that their ashes will be freed into the river................
see? the river ah... not clean. hahahahahaha!
okay. hindu believe that if the askes is freed into the river, their soul will be freed. and thats the end of their suffering.

okay. i'll continue next time. haha.
11:49 AM

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