~just me here...~

Sunday, 19th January 2003

what can i say... Rajasthan really makes me poetic, makes me stay just another day again and again, so that is why i am still here, in this heaven called Udaipur

click picture to see more pictures of Udaipur

Udaipur ~ this is a place where you wake up in the morning to be greeted by cascades of prayers, chanted by Priests and Brahmans who are loading the air with their holy lines, where you step into your bathroom and are showered by sprinkles of warm water heated by Ganesha

where you walk through the streets and feel the immensity of life reflected in the glass of Chai tea cups that seem to transform every talk into a conversation, and where you just turn around the corner and are circled by the tales of time
carved into the pillars of a stone temple that was built by people who died a long time ago

click picture to see the pillars move

where you just enter a room in a back street and are touched by a simple sacred Om painted on a white wall in deep colors
that echo in your soul, and where you sit on a rooftop terrace
and hear the wise whispers of the wind in the tainted shades of twilight that are playing on the mosaic floor and are afraid that your heart isn't soft enough to embrace the fragility of all those magic moments

yes, the days here are magic, and a part of me just wants to be here, wants to simply delve in the now, while another
part wants to treasure this moments, wants to capture them, wants to wrap them in words and in pictures, so that i will have some material memories to hold on to, some simple proof that Udaipur wasn't just an illusion

~poetic vibes~
Do

next: an ocean of blue stones