When the train is taking you…

4 Feb

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Travelling by train in India is like smoking or drinking alcohol. First you hate it. But there is something unexplainable that makes you taste it again. Finally you like it and you eventually become addict. This is obviously a general trend and I recognize that I identify myself in this tendency. (more…)

Everybody has a guruji in Varanasi

2 Feb

Ravindra, my yoga teacher in Varanasi

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There are some places where you always feel like going back, even before you have left them. This is the case of Varanasi. I spent 10 days in the holy city. This is enough to get impregnated by its indescribable atmosphere but not enough to learn one of the various cultural disciplines this city offers. When you speak with people in Varanasi, it seems that everyone has a “guru” teaching them something of the Indian culture. (more…)

The dark side of the mountain

25 Jan

Nepali working on the rice fields / Tourists in a restaurant (Pokhara)

When I told my French friends I was going to India, many of them were sceptical about this destination. But when I said I would also go to Nepal, they were unanimous “you are so lucky!! Nepal is my dream…”. (more…)