Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Indian food

It is time to write down something about delicious, incredible Indian flavours. First I want to mention that I haven't seen this huge variety of food in my life.
There are millions of different dishes and flavours across the country.
To start with India has 28 states and each and every state has totally different cuisine.
So far I could taste North Indian and South Indian, Rajasthan, Mangalorian food and all of them are super delicious.
Let's begin with North Indian food:
Paneer is the typical food of Panjabi, it is kind off cottage cheese which they usually make in gravy or fry it and than eat with chapati which is the Indian bread.

South Indian food
The characteristic dish of south Indian cuisine is Dosa and chakni and it is as spicy and the other dishes. They like coconut pretty much so they also drink coconut water which is really delicious.



I will write more about the food after I experience most of them.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Incredible police station

Since I have written some experiences about my trips in India and I promise I will continue it but now I have to mention something really impressing experience- 4 hors at police station. The Indians defenitely know what I does it mean but my foreign friends now pay attention.
The worst thing happened to me, I lost or was stolen my cell phone. So with my friend last night we went to Viman Nagar police station in Pune. First of all nobody speaks English and nobody writes neither Hindi. So they
could not help us they just sent us to the other station where wasn't any single soul so next day we had to go back to first police station. After 4 hours arguing and explaining I got finally and FIR (First report) of course written in Marathi which said my phone is lost! And if I would ask them to write me a paper about stolen phone it would take 4 months according to Indian law.
So please my friends just a suggestion DO NOT loose anything here in India!


Trip to Mumbai






Every weekend we head somewhere. It is so exciting to explore this incredible world. And now I can also understand what "incredible" means. Incredible in terms of India refers to some shocking, surprising, not commonplace, funny but enjoyable world with lots of fun :)
So Mumbai, the financial capital city of India with lots of traffic and even more people. I have never seen that much people before in my life. People everywhere: in train on seats, next to seats, on station, on streets, in temples, on the top of the train....
It was quite funny experience to travel with local train which doesn't have any doors. So you can feel a fresh air while you are travelling.
Since I am really intersted in temples we went first to one temple near to beach. That was my first time that I had to remove my shoes and as was raining the streets were even more dirty and it was so disgusting but I had to breat a deep and do not care about the circumstances to see the temple inside. After I removed my shoes I felt really bad and I worried about different infections I could get there but after a while the temple and a absorbed people impressed me so much that I forgot it....

It is also unbelievable that one hour from this huge noisy, crowded city you can find the most quite place in the world; without people, traffic, crowd. This pure place is an island called Elefanta island... Just check out the pics and you will understand what am I talking about...




It has been almost 2 months I arrived to India.
2 months full of surprises, lot of adventures, unforgettable moments, good and bad experiences but worth for it.
Each and every moment I enjoyed or tried to find the positive side of the coin. And now I am 100% sure that everything happens for reason.
In 2 months I also travelled a lot.
In first week we went to Lonavala which is a pure nature close to Pune. You can find there amazing waterfalls, fabulous landscape, ancient caves etc so it is the perfect one day trip. Since it is one hour from Pune we took a train to reach Lonavala and Karla caves so I could experience the breathtaking Indian train. Just a good suggestion: be prepared for that kind of adventure. First of all lot of people, dirt and trash everywhere, but still its Indian and it was nice to feel real Indian "trainair"
And waterfalls and caves are fun, huge fun :)