Bonjour!

My trip is nearing its end. It's sad. I am both happy and sad to leave. Canada a land of space, air, green and quiet. India a land of adventure, crazy smells, wonderful tastes. Leah and Filip left this morning, Leah to go back to Raxaul and Filip to go home :(
Here is a bit more on what we have been up to these last days:
on saturday morning we left on auto richshaw to go to Sarnath to visit temples, some buddist, japanese, chinese temples, etc and then a silk shop. Where again I bought 2 more scarves. Oh boy! no more for me. The rickshaw driver's name was Bully. He's a funny man. Unfortunataly, my camera's battery went caput on this trip.
Later we went to a restaurant where we met Raphaelle, a tourist from France. We invited her to come to the ganga on a boat with us in the evening. On that boat ride at dusk, some men were dressed in bright orange and did a ceremony, called Gang aarit, which is an offering of light to the river. these men had incense in their hands, then different other things on fire. The men were all synchronized with their movements while music was playing. It was something to see. They supposedly do this every night. Many people were around. There was a boat traffic jam. Some men were walking from boat to boat, trying to sell little things.
After that Raphaelle brought us to a place where we ate DOSAS! and coconut utthapams for cheap (south indian food).
The next day we took it easy. We were planning on going to the movies, so we went to a mall here by cycle rickshaw. When we get there and finally find a ticket booth, we find out the movie (karate kid) only plays in Hindi. So we head back to the hotel and have beer on the roof and watch the sunset. Raphaelle came to bring us to a restaurant where they serve Mediterranean food, which was great.
Today I'm taking it easy, getting myself ready to leave India. Having my last chai and last mango.