Friday, October 20, 2006
12 October, 2006
We woke up early and left for the boathouse in Srinagar. We said goodbye to the gypsies and gave them a tip but they showed no appreciation which upset us quite a bit. We had brilliant showers cleaning every orifice in the body and Rich did some of our filthy washing. Showkut organized a great hot lunch for us, which was a change from the boiled egg, coconut biscuit and boiled potato and carrot. We asked to be taken to the paper machee factory again and we bought an elephant and then we even purchased a Kashmir carpet. We hope that the goods arrive in SA?! It was quite exciting but we knew that no matter how much we negotiated we were still getting ripped off. I guess one only visits Kashmir once in a lifetime! Or perhaps twice?
It was really an amazing place and the boathouse was very, very special but we got taken for a ride and that is not a boat ride I am talking about.
We woke up early and left for the boathouse in Srinagar. We said goodbye to the gypsies and gave them a tip but they showed no appreciation which upset us quite a bit. We had brilliant showers cleaning every orifice in the body and Rich did some of our filthy washing. Showkut organized a great hot lunch for us, which was a change from the boiled egg, coconut biscuit and boiled potato and carrot. We asked to be taken to the paper machee factory again and we bought an elephant and then we even purchased a Kashmir carpet. We hope that the goods arrive in SA?! It was quite exciting but we knew that no matter how much we negotiated we were still getting ripped off. I guess one only visits Kashmir once in a lifetime! Or perhaps twice?
It was really an amazing place and the boathouse was very, very special but we got taken for a ride and that is not a boat ride I am talking about.
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 7:26 AM 
