Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Humayun's Tomb and the train

Hey all, this is Nina. After splitting into four groups, two of them went to Humayun's Tomb - a Mogul tomb that gave inspiration to the Taj Mahal. GORGEOUS! We will add pictures later to show you. 160 famiy members are buried there, more than any other. A school of girls was there and found Gabby, Gracie, and me quite fasinating and we ended up spending almost half an hour taking pictures with them (poor guys, they felt a little left out - when they walked over to Adrian to have him take the picture, he thought they wanted one with him...they didn't). After a couple of hours exploring, Rigzin took us to his favorite lunch place, far from a tourist hot-spot. Gavin was beet red and sweating from how spicy the food, but just didn't stop eating it, although we discovered sugar is the cure to a spicy mouth. After lunch, we found a park that happened to be where all the couples go to kanoodle. Here we learned Kabbadi!! To give you the gist of it, six people are on each team and have to run across a line in one breath, while saying "Kabbadi" over and over, with the object of tagging someone on the other team, and avoiding being wrestled to the ground. On to the train....! 14 hours, overnight to Varanasi, lots of guys walking back and forth down the aisles selling chai and "playing cards, playing cards, playing cards." But overall it was a fun ride, of course, I was one of the lucky ones that could actually sleep well on it. Shout out to LP, Kels, and the rents!

1 comment:

  1. Nina, who are the kabbadi champs this year? Halsey and Rigzin are pretty talented. Watch out when H. Bell puts his hat on backwards for the kabbadi tournament ... it means that things are about to get serious.

    - Pete

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