Hoy vamos a celebrar Holi, un festival muy importante aca en
la India. Holi es la fiesta de
colores y celebra la llegada de la primavera; es la celebracion donde se pide
por una buena cosecha y un suelo fertil.
La esencia es poner polvo de colores en la cara de la otra
gente y recibir polvo de colores de parte de la otra persona.
Salimos del hotel a las 10:00am y caminamos por las calles
del barrio pero no teniamos polvo de colores, sin embargo todo el mundo queria
celebrar con nosotros y nos pintaron de todos los colores. Fuimos a la estacion del tren a comprar
los tiquetes para ir a Agra, Khajuraho y Varanasi.
Salimos de la estacion y encontramos donde comprar polvo de
colores, ya con arma en mano nos fuimos para el centro de la ciudad a celebrar
Holi. Estuvimos caminando por el
Hawa Mahal donde habia bastante gente celebrando. Despues nos fuimos para el Palacio de la Ciudad, alli habian
mas turistas y todo el mundo estaba pasandola muy bien. La gente pasaba en motos y nos untaba
polvo de colores en la cara y se iban.
Este festival tambien se caracteriza porque la gente bebe mucho y fuman
marihuana, asi que a medida que pasan las horas el ambiente se empieza a poner
mucho mas intenso… la policia hace bastante presencia en toda la ciudad
especialmente en los sitios donde hay turistas. Los muchachos quieren abrazar a las turistas y aprovechan
para darles una manoseadita… preguntenle a Marcela! La policia intervino en un momento y cogio a palo
(literalmente) a uno de los muchachos.
La situacion se estaba saliendo de control asi que nos montamos en un
Tuk Tuk y nos fuimos para el hotel… bueno, no tan rapido! El señor del Tuk Tuk nos ofrecio que
nos daba una vuelta por la “Ciudad Rosada” como se conoce la zona vieja de
Jaipur, a lo cual aceptamos… para sorpresa de nosotros terminamos en la casa
del señor hablando con toda su familia… esto no pasa sino aqui! La familia es musulmana y no celebran
Holi; pero todos super queridos y nos invitaron a quedarnos, pero como
estabamos en todos los colores encima no aceptamos y nos fuimos para el hotel.
En el hotel nos bañamos para tratar de sacarnos esa cantidad
de color. Hay ciertos colores que
se fijan mas a la piel con el sudor, asi que hay unos que no salen por varios
dias… Marcela todavia esta batallando contra un colorcito rojo en el pecho.
El resto de la tarde la pasamos en el viendo gente pasar y
actualizando el blog.
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Today we are going to celebrate Holi, a very important
celebration in India. Holi is the
colours festival where they celebrate the arrival of spring and ask for a good
harvest and fertile soil.
The essence of Holi is to place coloured powder in the other
person’s face and receive coloured poweder from the other person.
We left the hotel at 10:00am and walked around the streets
but did not have powder, however people wanted to celebrate with us and they
painted our faces of different colours.
We went to the train station to buy our tickets to go to Agra, Khajuraho
and Varanasi.
We left the station and found a place to buy coloured
powder. We went downtown, walked
around the Hawa Mahal where there were lots of people celebrating. Later we walked to the City Palace
where there were more tourists… everybody was having a lot of fun. Lots of people came by motorcycles,
painted our faces and left. During
this festival people drink a lot and they also consumed a lot of weed either
smoking, drinking or eating it; so as the day progresses the intensity
increases… the police presence especially in the tourist areas is very
strong. The locals take advantage
of female tourists to hug them and touch them… ask Marcela! The police intervene and hit one of the
guys with a stick. The situation
was getting out of control so we took a Tuk Tuk and went to the hotel… well,
not so fast! The Tuk Tuk driver offered
to take us around the “Pink City” how it is known the old city in Jaipur and we
accepted… to our sorprise we ended up in the Tuk Tuk driver’s home and we ended
up taking to his family. They are
muslims so they do not celebrate Holi.
They were very welcoming and invited us to stay, however we had coloured
powder all over so we rejected their invitation.
At the hotel we took a shower trying to get all the colour
from our bodies. There are certain
colours that fix to your body very well, so they will not come out for a few
days… Marcela is still trying to get some red colour off her.
The rest of the afternoon we spent at the hotel, watching
people go by and updating the blog.
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UY!! se ve que se gozaron el holi y asi es que debe ser: "adonde fueres has lo que vieres" y participar de esa celebracion me parece super!! yo creo que les quedo pintura hasta en el............
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What a unique experience, eh?
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