It all started with a motorbike: The Royal Enfield, the Indian Harley Davidson, highly recommended by a good friend and many others.
Mukesh' workshop, THE place to get a RE
If soemone want's an Einfield Mukesh can refurbish on of these for 1.000 EUR!
Finally we had the freedom to go wherever the road would take us.....
Swords??? Yep, they're still used in India. Some farmers save money for long time to get a good handmade sword to take care of it's cattle....
Some stops along the road, a "TV tent".
Amazing roads and always a shepherd walking the cattle...
During several days we got on the bike and explored the area around Pushkar, this is how we found the gorgeous temples.
The first one we run into was a small temple where we met ‘Alu Baba’. Alu means ‘potato’ in Hindu, this Baba was named like that because potatoes is all he’s been eating for the past 25 years! "and Chai tea and sometimes banana!", as he said. He resigned everything, family, house, material stuff, to devote himself to meditation and connection with his spiritual life.
We understood that he just eat potato not because it´s healthy (actually it´s not) but to show that we can be above that, food was not what fed him...
He kindly opened the doors of the temple and offered us a cup of Chai tea while sharing an interesting chat about his life decisions and some daily stuff about the world. It´s impressive to find someone who never went out of India and walked the road for years that can talk to you in english and spanish! He even knew about the existence Brussels as the capital of Belgium, Antwerp as an important port and diamonds market and Buenos Aires. Un grande!
He kindly opened the doors of the temple and offered us a cup of Chai tea while sharing an interesting chat about his life decisions and some daily stuff about the world. It´s impressive to find someone who never went out of India and walked the road for years that can talk to you in english and spanish! He even knew about the existence Brussels as the capital of Belgium, Antwerp as an important port and diamonds market and Buenos Aires. Un grande!
Continuing on the road you bump into the Shiva Temple, an amazing temple located in a naturally beautiful place next to a river. We expend long time contemplating what was going on around this magical place. First monkeys came and play around for more than an hour. Then goats came and walked on the narrow walls and for sunset peacocks show their feathers, beautiful. Nowadays the temple is empty, but you can always find a Baba that´s read to share an interesting story or just hear what you have to say.
Thanks Chorch for giving us the advise of renting this bike, it might be not as good as cycling but the feeling of the place is much stronger when you're on a pair of wheels!
