You know, I personally don’t like waking up early. Unless, of course, it is for a good cause. An extremely important and fair cause like to get on a Hot Air Balloon and just fly over Jaipur.
The night before, the 29/04/09, was already VERY exciting…We were at WWW.DERAAMER.COM, just behind the hills of Amer Fort, at the very foothills of the Aravali Range, where Udaijit Singh has invited us to give juicy bananas to his elephants, which by that time of the day had already their munches, and afterwards embark on them to a surreal trip through that amazing piece of Rajput tradition.
It was such a cool ride…specially, because elephants are particularly attracted to munch the dried desert trees they’ve met along the way. You know what is the best part? When your champagne glasses are empty, the photo-cameras tired and with their batteries wearing thin for taking continuously and uselessly pictures (under the night they are not technologically able to picture the contours of those trees – in vain trying to reflect the ligt of the moon in waxing crescent) and then there is a pit or an elephant-stop to refill them…Not the multipixeled ones, the glasses…
You regret you are a little over weigthed when it is time for debarkation, and you sense that there is a typical Rajasthani dinner waiting for you and at that point, you are glad that you are no kind of bulimic and just immerse in all that aroma…Full again. Nice talk. Time to go. Tomorrow, the 30th, wake up time is set for 4am!
When we get at the field and see our WWW.SKYWALTZ.COM balloon growing brightly green and yellow, the blood tends to freeze, even tough is already close to 30 Celsius at that time of the day…
From the balloon, after taken that sun rising picture you see at the header of this blog, we look down and see two sacred cows looking/munching at us perplexed…The whole villagers runing to a certain point, a point where we would land…And they were SO HAPPY in greeting us…SO HAPPY in having that hot air balloon over their own warm dry land…
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