01.12.11
Internet Disruptions Cause Many Blog Delays…
that and laziness.. or well also the fact that i’ve been super busy! So much has happened in the past week that i do not even know where to start. Aside from the 3 day internet power outage, we’ve been out making daily trips to villages and shopping in town, as well as heading to the city of Auraungabad to see the caves at Ellora and Ajunta.
so we’ve visited 2 villages so far. On our first visit to a village, we followed Dr. Shoba (the daughter of the people who started CRHP) around as she showed us various important parts of the village as well as introduced us to a village health worker. On our second village visit, we followed the village health worker around as she went from home to home seeing her patients and explaining to us what was going on. We also met with the Women’s Self Help Group which is a group created by the women of the village, which helps lead to empowering them as well as giving them a more vocal role in the village. On Saturday, we headed out early in the morning to Ellora, where we saw some lovely caves. There were three types of cave categories: the Hindu Caves, the Buddhist Caves, and the Jain Caves. We were only able to see the first two caves, which was still pretty cool. (also, we ate at a restaurant and i was finally able to see some MONKEYS! they were just roaming around hopping from car to car. pretty cool). We also were able to see the Bibi Ki Maqbara which is a mausoleum. That night we went to Aurangabad and stayed overnight at a hotel. The next morning we headed out to the Ajunta caves which were all Buddhist. The view was seriously, amazing.
In addition to our lovely trips, we also had a party last night, in our honor. The party was on the roof of Dr. Shoba’s house where there was a really big bonfire (as well as a super huge dog that thankfully did not come near me.) It was pretty nice. Ended the night with an AWESOME RIDE on a vespa 😀 seriously, I need to find me a vespa once i get back to NY. love it <3
Also, enjoy the lovely pictures below!
MONKEY!
Ellora Caves
