03/04/2010
When I woke this morning after sleeping on the floor of the prison cell of a room I had no idea that today I would see the Dalai Lama today, he was on a tour with other religious leaders rockin it in the center of Rishakesh for two days only, unfortunately his performance this afternoon was not delivered only appearing on stage still making the crowd go wild lighting everything they could on fire, well, not everything just the lanterns that were passed around where everyone wanted a whiff of the smoke to, oh, I dunno, “cleanse their spirit”. This was quite an ordeal because these lanterns were cumbersome and firing flames in all directions almost incinerating the people around, including myself.
I took some pictures of the big DL busting his grooves, well, sitting there expressionless but this experience still is pretty cool as I have now seen both of the 2 major influential religious leaders in the world, the first obviously being the Pope.
Getting back to earlier in the day we bumped into Lena in Freedom Café, the Swedish girl Emer and I met in Udaipur, we spent most of the morning just chillin in the café before the three of us decided to go do something and see one of the waterfalls nearby, it was a 3km walk there and was undoubtedly refreshing, very cold water pummeling down in one main thick stream. We headed back to the backpacker area where we heard about the possibility of big DL coming to town and ventured to go see him, despite being some doubt that he would be there at all… thankfully as you have just read he was.
Tomorrow he gives his speech early in the morning and ill see whether I’m up in time to go see him as it is now close to 1 am having spent most of the evening back in Freedom Café chilling, meeting people, chatting and listening to some people gifted with the ability to perform in front of others. Some of these guys are truly amazing.
One other thing I have to mention; sweet Samosa’s, more specifically apple and chocolate filled samosa’s are delicious, an Indian version of apple pie.
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