Quick info: we finally got to northern part of India, specifically - Assam. We stayed with a new friend we met on a train from Chennai to Guwahati. Train ride was a whole story in itself, more about that in a separate post.

Everyone who have visited India knows, that being foreigner sometimes can give you a celebrity status. That being said, I couldn't imagine that I would give "thank you" speech on a stage before 200 or so people.

Saw it in a theater. Expected something totally different, got silly sci-fi - mix between Superman and X-men. 80 rupees. Entertaining, but not worth it.

Nothing new happened during the last days so I didn't write anything, but to keep blog alive, here is the summary of what we have been up to. We are trying to get to Kolkata, but trains are full (this is normal in India, all tickets should be bought at least week prior to planned departure), so in two days we drove from Kochi (left side of India) to Chennai (right side). Last bus ride took us 11 hours, but luckily was during the night.

Here, in Munnar, trekking/hiking is very popular, at least that is my understanding by constant questions whether we want guides for that. I haven't seen anyone hiking around, but the place is indeed very suitable for a walk. So, pumped up from previous climb to the nearby mountain, we decided to find (just by looking around) highest mountain and go into it's general direction, hoping to reach and climb it.

After 4 weeks in India crossing streets trough continues traffic becomes OK, eating street food and eating with hands also is not problem now. First stress or how it could be called "cultural shock" is passed. Some places in India now looking like at home (sweet home) and also filling is OK not so hot (filling like at Latvian summer). While we where at Belakype where is Tibetian camps, theirs momo's (pelmeni,dumplings) also was like at home (Latvia). Now I could call it second stress.