The man who traveled 3 days to get cookies from Jaisalmer
Blog: 99 + 1 countries - 12 September 2009
By: merja
The ex-news presenter, ex-monk, and now a meat eating oddjob, who was mentioned earlier here, popped up again while I was still in Delhi. These are the focal points of our discussion:
1. He thinks he has found the secret to being comfortable in Delhi. On this trip to India, after being in Delhi and in the country for a few days he felt it was all too much. So he took a train to Jaipur, waited there for 9 hours, then took a night train to Jaiselmer, his beloved city of the golden fortress. But it wasn't the fortress he wanted to visit, it was the famous government authorized bhang shop. He asked them to bake him thirty cookies, which took them 4 hours. After that he jumped on a train back to Delhi where, after three days of traveling to Jaisalmer and back, he now eats one cookie a day for the next few weeks before heading home.
2. He once spent three months in Pushkar with a family, who's daily routine it was to have a bhang lassi every day at noon. His representation of the 70-year-old grandfather coming trembling to the table to get his daily dosage has undoubtedly earned him standing ovations from other backpackers.
3. After six years as a monk in the Buddhist center of Dharamsala he is back to eating meet, drinking, smoking and orgasming when having sex.
4. Sharing all this info took him about 40 minutes.
5. He wanted me to call him "my master". I refused and decided it was about time to get moving.
(Bhang is a type of high quality weed.)
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