Holiday from holidays

Goa...we arrived in there, happy about living at the seaside, but what we found was much more comfortable, than we could have had expected. Arambol looks a bit like a hippie commune, western hippies, of course. Filippo found a sitar teacher in the first days and so we decided to stay some longer in this place. The stress from the travels before disappeared very fast - Goa is specialized for making life comfortable to tourists. A bit like any western seaside, maybe, but much more beautiful and calm (shanthi shanthi). Just behind our guest house the magic park (palm park in which they make yoga& meditation sessions, etc.).

Prem (the sitar teacher), his brother Praveen (tabla teacher) and Alpesh (our spiritual guide ;) spent with us every day, telling thousand of stories ( all with a moral or at least funny), cooking with us (we made chapati).


Here we present you proudly Prem:








And in this picture you see Praveen (left) and Alpesh (meditating) in one of the often organized jam sessions at sunset on the beach.





















We found an incredible place...behind big rocks, on which Filippo (which appeared to be a reincarnation of a monkey) went to meditate...

...the sweet lake!

The sweet lake is located between the mountains and 10 meters from the sea.



We found by chance a "mud river" walking through the wood behind the lake, which apparently is an attraction for many Indians and foreigners because of the particular mud you find there. Everybody goes there to cover his body with the mud... they say it' s very healthy..
We tried!
The skin was like baby skin afterwards.


















Besides bathing in the sea and in the lake, we spent most of our time in the beautiful "german bakery", a very nice bar at the beach... we enjoyed our free time and had much fun with the waiters :). On Saturday we went to Anjuna's night market - a very colorful place with beautiful stands...



















and live music (this is a Punjabi group).
In Arambol we met Tanja, a very nice girl from Russia, who is traveling with us for some days now.
In the moment we are in Hampi and we enjoy a lot. Every day we take many pictures, so the next blog entry is to be expected soon.

P.S. Terrorism attacks didn't effect us.
P.P.S. It's 35 degrees, sunny and the moon smiles at night.