Yoga Report

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I arrive in Delhi and thought I was going to be prepared since this is my second visit.  Imediately I have a taxi driver grabbing my arm and trying to sell me a ride. I offer some advice to a doctor student from Kenya who is in Delhi for his first time and we decide to share a prepaid taxi. I remember thinking ” what am I doing here ?” during the intense and totally unsafe ride into town. Now I remember Indian traffic. Honking , honking and then some more honking. I decide to scout the New Delhi train station to see how it is organised. I am really close to fall for a scam at my arrival and I dodge it by taking aim at a military guy in uniform and insisting on talking with him. In the tourist office I talk to a guy from United States and I am so happy having another westerner to talk to right now. We decide to have lunch together and decide to go to a place called The banana Leaf.  almost every Indian person who wants to talk to us on the street is offering us help on finding the tourist office. From Lonely Planet I know this is a common scam to get you to visit a travel agent where “the street seller” get commission. An Indian guy gets really confused when I offer to show him the nearest tourist office

the information boards is not updating in the train station and I have to walk around quite a bit with my big back pack to get on the right train. Well on board I am so happy that I bough a first class ticket and I really enjoy the silence and polite atmosphere. The train journey is smooth and one of the passengers which I talked to the previous day starts to do yoga in the morning. I think he does it to show me since he yesterday referred to himself as a master of yoga.

I arrive in Deoghar and the athmosphere is different here and people are not so aggresive in selling you things. Several times I notice that they do not even take any extra money because you are a westerner. But a thing that makes it a bit more complicated is that very few people know a little bit of english and I am the only westerner werever I go. The whole lesson in trust is completed when I arrive at the ashram and there is no sign in English. I have arrived at the right place and everybody is friendly. I arrive early and a man named “Pragia” is showing me my room. He is from Denmark and have been in the ashram for 8 years. The room is basic and clean. there are blankets and pillows availible so bringing a sleeping bag was not really nescessary.