It's been two weeks since I've written a post and I'll struggle to recap on all we've done, I'm not sure where to start...I guess the recent wedding, the anticipated highlight of our India visit, is a great place.
We met our friends James and Bronnie for a third and final time in Amritsar, picking them up at the airport and whisking off in a taxi to a city called Bathinda. We where held up by a sit in protest on the highway, just 5km out of Bathinda, so we arrived a bit late and had to rush straight to Karrendeep's house where the family was preparing for the evening wedding celebrations. We arrived just in time to join in on getting some henna done on our arms and hands, then Bronnie and I both had to hang out slightly helpless for a good hour+ while it dried.
Several more hours passed and we wondered when the party would be starting. The plan was for dinner/ partying on Saturday, followed by more formal ceremony on the Sunday.
Finally at about 9pm we headed to the venue for an interesting night of dancing, very loud music, yummy food and a bit too much attention from the wedding photographers. I'm sure we had a photo with almost every guest, but it was lovely to be made so welcome at the wedding.
The next days events where similar to the previous evening, but with some beautiful ceremony thrown in, such as Karen arriving in traditional dress on a white horse, and my favorite part of every wedding, seeing the bride dressed up in her gorgeous wedding dress. Oh, and on the Sunday, Bronnie and I wore traditional India clothes too. Bronnie wore her custom made sari and looked stunning, and I wore a very bling outfit that the family kindly arranged for me.
All in all it was a beautiful occasion that we where thrilled to be apart of, and another great opportunity to share with James and Bron.
Previous to the wedding, we travelled through some amazing places as we worked our way up North from Mumbai. We learnt to make Malai Kofta's at a cooking class in a lakeside town called Udaipur. We checked out the best fort we've seen in India in Jodhpur. We did an overnight camel safari in Jaisalmer where we slept under the stars on sand dunes (loved this). In Delhi we joined in on carnival festivities during their Navaratri festival, and finally in Amritsar we enjoyed a free lunch at the beautiful Sikh Golden Temple and got stuck into the dance party like atmosphere at the India/ Pakistan boarder crossing.
This concludes our very busy, quite amazing time in India. We have travelled a lot of km's have seen many sides of this remarkable country, and we leave having had a great experience.
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