I can’t believe I am actually eating curry, and loving it, Anna Spanner would be well impressed!;-)

So arrived in Mount Abu about an hour ago, much to the dismay of all my new friends in Udaipur….who couldn’t quite figure out why I wanted to go to a honeymoon spot? Trying to explain to them that I wasn’t going to miss out on a beautiful city simply because I was single fell on deaf ears. And their insistence that Udaipur was 100 times more beautiful and that I should stay another day also fell on deaf ears. 

My last day in Udaipur…… (I am deeply concerned mum and dad at your joint inability to still find it on the map, 4 days after I arrived..shocking!!!!!  I look forward to hearing you have found it soon! Rajasthan area, up North!!!) …anyway, where was I? So I had a pretty chilled last day, packed up went to visit Yogi and Raj again. Yogi took me to his son’s school which was really amazing. I just can’t get over how they have so little in the way of proper buildings, school supplies…even running water and yet every child is always dressed so immaculately. 

After our school visit I spent about an hour playing with Yogi’s jewellery. I then decided that as a matter of principle I really should buy SOMETHING…(seen as he has kept me entertained for 3 days and NOT once tried to sell me ANYTHING) So I bought a beautiful Smokey Topaz ring that I had fallen in love with the first day that I met them. It cost whole days travelling money, and double the amount of my clothes shopping spree, but on principle, I felt I needed to buy it!! So I did. And I love it….will stay indoors and read a book on my last day in India:-) 

Yogi, must have then taken pity on this poor traveller stressing over a couple of hundred Rupees and threw in a toe ring as a gift!! Was well pleased and mildly embarrassed!

The journey up here was absolutely magical, I can’t even begin to describe how beautiful the landscape is. I tried endlessly to capture bits of it on camera but…..in a moving bus … it’s like catching a rainbow. I did, however, have an epiphany…and here it is…..when I grow up I’m going to be a photographer!!! (For real;-) I will, however, need one of those big-arse fancy camera’s…with zoom and everything! As much as I love my camera…..I’d prefer to not have to get sooo close to my subjects while photographing them – ummmm especially when they are deranged monkeys! The other day when that creature stole my drink, this other tourist whipped out her massive camera and took loads of photos from the other side of the street!!! ( I had such HUGE camera envy, can’t even begin to tell you!) So as a matter of safety, plus the fact that they make that really cool ‘clicky’ noise and so that I will feel even MORE like the self-professed “seasoned traveller” that I am, I have come up with a plan! Mum and dad…thought I would give you a heads up…Christmas is coming, I know you are already wondering what to get your favourite daughter!! I figure a decent camera only costs about R5000. So dad if you start cutting out some coupons now and mum you double your baking output…..you will probably be able to afford it!! Thanks, I can’t WAIT!!!! 🙂

And on that note, I think I m going to go and sleep, in my really cheap room…RS300 might have to stay here a couple of days to counteract the Udaipur shopping sprees!

Lotsa Love, miss you all!!!

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