We woke up early to go to Mangal artik for the last time in Delhi temple. Quite a nice morning program, I especially like when they bring a little murti of Prabhupada to all the altars for darshan. After the program, we had breakfast, then packed all our things into the taxi to go to Vrindavan!!! I was so excited!
What a drive! Our taxi driver was actually the most careful and respectful driver out of my whole Indian driving experience. Still we were completely car sick the whole time, of course no seat belts ever work, no security from anywhere. No one ever, ever follows the lines on the road, not even remotely, they hardly even follow the street lights! Blinkers are a joke, the only thing they use is the horn, and sometimes the brakes. Definately the most heart-stopping, stomach-clenching experience ever. Its so unreal, you really feel like you are in a video game or something.
On our way out of Delhi we stopped at this huge sweet shop/restaurant called Haldirama. An overwhelming amount of sweets that I never knew existed! We couldn't stay long, so I just picked out a sample of burfis and sandesh, (I was too intimidated to try the really crazy looking ones). Unfortunately, I didn't think of taking pictures. They were quite good too. Then we were on our way again. Now I really know what it means to play "On the way to Vrindavan I saw..." hehehee.. because I saw so many crazy things! Horse-buggies, elephants, camels, 4 people on a motorcycles, overcrowded rikshas and trucks, just to name a few. The nicest thing though was to sing the Samsara prayers with Yamuna and Dina as we entered Vrajamandal. Immediately you feel like you are floating above everything.
Finally we reached Vrindavan!!! I can't remember being that excited about anything in my life! We got to Vrindavan MVT, around 1 or 2pm, and just went straight to our rooms, to take a good nap.
After the nap, I walked around the MVT a little, just looking at everything. The monkeys, the parrots, the squirrels! Everything was amazing to me, the trees, the plants. Then around 6:30 we went to the restaurant to get something to eat, and then had an early night, because tomorrow we were going to go to Mangal artik in Srila Prabhupada's Samadhi!!! I was in Vrindavan!
This is so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI love reading these!
India sounds like so much fun! :)