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So I got a reservation on a train from Mumbai to Kota tomorrow that leaves at 7:00, arrives at 8:40. I'm really glad to be going back to rajastan--I would have felt like I had done the state an injustice if I had only gone to Pushkar. Kota is a city with only one thing interesting in it: an old palace. But the real destination is 56 KM away, Bundi, which has an old decaying fort. and a lake. and probably lots of camels, and sand, and heat. But both places are completely untouristed (I mean, there are guest houses, but there's no separate market for tourists and locals). Kipling lived there for a time to write a book, I don't know which one. So if I'm going to be an Orientalist writer, I have to go there, right?

Some pictures. It was hard to choose which one I waited to upload, because it's really slow. I have many scenic pictures of beautiful India, the beautifulist place on the planet, but I'm just not going to post any of them, you'll have to see them when I get home.


This is my perfect picture of steriotypical India--it's exactly the image that people have in their mind when they think of Indians. Or maybe I just think that cuase I've been here a while. This was taken while I was still in Varanasi; I took a side trip to the other side of the river to see an ancient Durga temple. These people were outside.



OK for some reason it just stopped working. I think maybe the internet went down. shit. it did. now how am I going to publish this post? fuck. that was a waste of an hours internet time.