Images Of Raw Diamonds

1 and 2 February - at the barber

I feel it coming on the day of departure we leave on 2 to 19h with a sleeper bus, direct to Delhi.

I spent part of my time in a craftsman for whom I do a lot of pictures. Lots of things to do and see in each other before leaving the shopping trip to choose goodies ...

In one of them one morning, I am the first customer and he told me that the first customer will decide the luck of the day, so ... the negotiation was very good.

And I finally have my own experience at a barber formula called "first class" in the stalls and tiny multicolored chairs of the 60 ... Unforgettable! 3 shaves followed by 3 successive massage of the face (eyes and eyelids especially). My barber thinks only satisfy me and as I'm delighted, I give him a little longer than agreed, which delights him.

I do not want to leave, Pushkar is a town so quiet and the people so cordial.

Pushkar is both extremely Hindu (and cause) and International - the travelers like to stay home because it is a haven of peace compared to other beautiful city. One can thus both here living "in retreat" while attending regular Western travelers from all walks and all backgrounds in the restaurant made for them (Israeli cuisine, Italian, ...). Or eat at a tiny restaurant where only will the premises or pilgrims. We have the choice! Or retire to his room or on the terrace of the guesthouse, walk on the ghats at dusk and enjoy the sun setting, the sound of drums (daily for 1 to 17h and a half hour, a small Strip Traveller gives a concert of drums on the ghats, facing the lake). Over the days, unable to cross the mainstreet without being invited to at least one chai. And it's so hard to say no! They do not understand that even if they do not invite refused for reasons of business.

I could, thanks to Flor who knows one or the other, spend a morning with Gitanes in their camp and see the dance, but lack of time. For another time ... It's one, two, three days or more than I spent with the gypsies, even the most marginal and dirtier in appearance (On the outskirts of Pushkar, I saw the tents, the real, which serves some actual habitat). As in Delhi, I go into the "slums" special slums, the slum as "the" major urban phenomenon in progress and the worst is yet to come - including Paris and I am convinced that the "shantytowns" of city again. "Paris-slums" is already now. But this is only the beginning.