India first week: Adapting our body and mind

We have already spent one week in this huge country, trying to understand this amazing culture, trying to taste every meal and trying to hug these special indian people...

After we step for the very first time India, we realised that at the end of June is very difficult to keep your body whithout swear for more than one minute in Delhi. 42 degrees and 50% of humidity was our welcome party in India.

Chaman picked us up from Indira Gandhi airport to the heart of Delhi ( Shadipur). During this one hour journey we could prove the great skills which Indian drivers move across Delhi's roads. We think they were born with the essencial capacity of escape from the traffic accidents using their favourite car complement: the horn. For us it was amazing to read in some tracks and ricksos the sentence... Please blow horn! For them the horn is like a blessing but for us the Delhi horns were like our first great teaching of patient.

We spent our first three night in Delhi under two funs in Wahoe comune sharing thoughts, chats and music with people from New Zealand, England and India.

Here we met with the first NGO of our trip and we could realised how much pure activities they are doing for children and women in different parts of India. Wahoe commune is a humble local NGO which is really committed to help their people in the best way. 

We are very grateful with Chaman, Surender and Mehar to give us the possibility to be involved during three days in this beautiful project.

Wahoe commune has a huge Ahimsa spirit!

Alok: The best Old Delhi guide

We also had the lucky chance to meet a great Indian musician called Rakesh who introduced us very good friend of him, Alok. This Rakesh's friend was our particular guide in Old Delhi. Thanks to him we could live and feel the real Delhi daily life and we could try many different Indian meals like chaat, dosa, coconut chutney, sambar, kofta malai,paneer, Gulag jamun,etc... The most exciting thing of this is that we didn't get sick after eating everything in the streets of old Delhi...Our stomachs also have a very good Ahimsa spirit!

The last day in Delhi we met with Oscar, a spanish-tibetan guy who took us to a gastronomic walk across a Tibetan neighbourhood called Majnu Ka Tila.

After three intense and very hot days in the capital we took a bus to Manali. At the beginning the bus company told us that our journey would take 8 or 9 hours but at the end we spent 15 long and moved hours inside that bus... In India you know when you take a bus but you never know when you will leave it...

Once we arrived to Manali we could see such a different view comparing with Delhi. In this mountain city there are amazing green mountains, very clean rivers, deep huge forests and plenty of marihuana wild plants. Manali gave us back the oxigen we had lost in Delhi.

Four km away from Manali we visited a nice small town called Vashisht where you can take a thermal bath in a hinduism temple and you can do a comfy trekking to a sacred waterfalls.

Tonight we are traveling to Ladakh to join the 33th Kalachakra with His Holiness Dalai Lama.

After our first adapting week in India we are ready to discover the Buddhist part of this incredible country.

Here you have some picture of this first India week.

Namaste 

Surender: The best cook in Wahoe Commune

Chaman

traditional house in Manali

first jam in Manali