En hinduistisk begravelse

Hei alle sammen.
For noen dager siden skjedde det noe trist for oss. Vi hadde pleid å dra til en søt liten restaurant rett ved hotellet, hvor vi første dag møtte en et koselig hinduistisk ektepar som vi snakket mye med. De fortalte oss om byen, og foreslo forskjellige aktiviteter til oss. Vi avtalte også møtes på samme sted neste morgen.

Neste morgen dro vi da til denne resaturanten igjen, og fant bordet vårt. Der skattbare kvinnen. Hun fortalte oss at mannen hadde fått hjertestopp, og dessverre gått bort. Dette var som et slag i magen for oss alle. Hun inviterte oss til begravelsen, og vi svarte selvfølgelig ja. Selv om dette var noe av det verste vi kunne ha opplevd, fikk i vi i hvertfall dra år i en ordentlig hinduistisk begravelse.

Vi møtte opp på en kirkegård der gravstøtten sto. Deretter dro vi til et lite bål rett ved den hellige elven Ganges. Kroppen ble snudd mot vest av en mannlig venn av han, fordi kroppen alltid skal håndteres av en fra det motsatte kjønn. Egentlig helst sønnen, men siden han ikke hadde en sønn, ble det en nær venn. Alle omringet den åpne kisten, og vi kunne se hvor sorgfulle alle var og at han betydde mye for dem.

Etter han hadde blitt kremert, ble asken spredd utover den hellige elven, som er et viktig rituale for hinduistene. Dette var en veldig trist dag for oss, vi hadde blitt veldig glad i den mannen veldig fort. En hinduistisk begravelse hadde vi i hvertfall opplevd, men det gjorde det ikke noe sørlig bedre akkurat der og da.

Akkurat som i dette tilfelle, anbefaler jeg og finne ut litt om religionen til landet du skal dra til. Det er forskjellig i alle land, og forskjellige tradisjoner og ritualer. Vi håper at dette var til hjelp for falle dere, og at dere blir litt mer observante.
Hilsen alle sammen!

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Mat i Nepal

Dal Bath er den mest populære retten i Nepal. Den består av linsesuppe, ris og grønnsaker i karry. I Kathmandu kan man få tak i alle typer mat, fra italiensk til japansk og indisk. Generelt er den nepalske maten veldig enkel men den smaker veldig godt og er i tillegg meget nærende. Te (Chai) med melk og mye sukker er en nasjonal drikk.

http://www.permaville.com/courses/permaculture-design-course-practical-pdc-august-10-sept-7-2014-lamjung-nepal/

Kathmandu

I Nepal finnes det mange hellige steder. Vi har besøkt et av dem, kalt Kathmandu. Kathmandu er i tillegg hovedstaten i Nepal. Dalen er kjent som hjemlandet til Newar folket, som levde der før. Det er et fint sted å dra til, med mange turister. Det finnes flotte hus og bygninger her, og spennende butikker. I tillegg er det mange trange gater å traske rundt i. Utsikten er også helt himmelsk.

Du kan ta et direktefly rett til Kathmandu dalen, og kjøre en av de berømte tuk-tukene eller ta taxier. Du kan også ta busser, som det går mange av rundt i Nepal. Det er lurt å dra dit fra oktober til april, for ellers kan det være regnsesong. Kathmandu er en stor by, så det er lett å gå seg vill i de trange gatene.

Det er en avslappet atmosfære her, og ingen spesielle krav. Det er også god eksotisk mat her, og mye å oppleve. Håper at dere tar turen  hit, det er virkelig minnerikt og veldig mange spennende utfluktsmuligheter. Jeg lover at det er verdt det, du kan dra dit med hele familien og få opplevt et flott sted.
Hilsen A, B, C og D

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Budsjettet vårt

Hei igjen, dere!

Snart er vi framme på vårt siste stopp. Nå tenkte vi å dele litt tanker angående budsjettet vårt, og hva vi har brukt penger på. Håper dere finner dette nyttig, det har det i hvertfall vært for oss gjennom denne fantastiske reisen.

Så langt har vi vært ganske flinke. Vi har ikke brukt penger på unødvendige ting, og holdt oss til budsjettet. Vi har levd ganske enkelt, så det har ikke vært så veldig dyrt. Hotell er kanskje det som overrasket oss mest angående prisen. Vi trodde vi skulle finne litt billigere hotell enn de vi fant. I tillegg hadde et av hotellene midd i sengene. Det kan du lese mer om i tidligere innlegg. Vi kunne nok kanskje ha lest oss litt mer opp på forskjellige nettsider, da hadde vi sikkert funnet litt mer. 

Aktivitene er kanskje det som kostet mindre enn forventet. Det bra veldig mye billigere enn vi trodde, og vi dro på ganske mange aktiviteter. Det har vært mange billige alternativer, og vi har kost oss mye med det. Vi hadde jo planlagt hvor mye vi skulle bruke på aktivitene i hvert land, og jeg tror faktisk at ble litt billigere enn det. Det er jo smart å spare så mye som mulig, så  vi gjorde det ganske lurt i å planlegge aktivitene slik vi gjorde. Dette kan dere også lese om i tidligere innlegg.

Hilsen A og C

Visiting Hong Kong


Finally we arrived in Hong Kong after one month of traveling. We've had a nice time in Athen, and very dramatic time as well. After living in are hotel for one night we got bedbugs, it was a big problem because we needed to get the bugs removed and it costs a lot of money. But we got the hotel manager to pay it for us, but we still needed to go to the doctor are selfs to get the bedbugs off are bodies. Now we're in Hong Kong and ready to explore they big happy country China.

When we landed in Hong Kong the first thing we did was to take a cab to the nearest Night open cafe to eat. We arrived in Hong Kong in the middle of the night and it was hard to find a night open restaurant. After eating we were really tired and drove to the hotel and slept for a long time. The next day we woke up in the middle of the day because we had jet lag. We went on a little trip to se the ocean park Hong Kong, It was beautiful and the nice sculptures of colorful fish in the entrance. we didn't get to so much before we went home to sleep. But i really looked forward to the next day. When we were gone go to Hong Kong Disneylandresort.


Me and my group woke up early to go to the Disneyword. We wanted to arrive early so we could have lots of time to explore all the nice things and have a good time. We arrived at Disneyland fifth teen minutes before it opened. But it was still extremely long queue. After waiting for a long time we finally came in. Me and Phillip went to take something to eat and the girl took some more rollercoasters, me and Phillip had pizza and ice cream, Phillip started not feeling well and then Aurora Julie came back and aurora was really sad because he didn't have I nought money to buy food. Me decided to go home after 6 hours of roller coasters and Having a good day. We had a nice time and a day we will remember. We had some ups and some downs but still really good

http://touristexpedition.com/hong-kong-disneyland-international-theme-parks/

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 DISNEYLAND ADVENTURE

This is a story about my adventure to Disneyland. It started of when we were buying the tickets to go inside. It was a long line but we woke up early so we were one of the first. When I got the tickets they all had a little Disney figure face on it.

We showed our tickets to the guard. He loot us all go inside and gave us a stamp. He said " show this to the restaurants for a discount on your food." We all said "thanks" with a big smile on our faces. When we took our first steps in to Disneyland we all laughed and ran to the first attraction. Aurora was really scared so she didn't want to ride it but everyone else wanted to so we went and aurora bought some food. When we were finished with the ride we went to aurora. She wanted to go on that ride. So we walked 5 minutes to the ride.

This ride was not big at all it was really small but we didn't want to leave aurora alone so we went on it. The thing is that it was actually not that bad. So we decided to go on all of the small ones because it wasn't a long queue and it was fun. Nikolas and Julie were a Little bored so we sometimes had to go on some big roller coasters. At the end aurora said "I am going on that massive roller coaster." And she did and that was a perfect end to a perfect day.

Disneyland in Hong Kong

Hallo!
We were landing with the plain in Hong Kong, and we took a bus to the hotel where we are going to live. The morning after we woke up early so we could by tickets to go inside and come before the queue. We were all excited to see how Disneyland was. When we had by tickets we could go inside.

When we had gone past the guards we could finally go inside. When we were inside the gate it came a family to us, they asked if we could take a picture of them. We said "yes" and they were so nice to us. After we had take a picture of them we asked them if they could take a picture of us. They said "yes" and then we had a really nice photo of us.

We had walked a round for a little while, when we finally found something that looks very funny. It was a roller coaster. When we was in the queue to the roller coaster, Phillip don't want to take it. He run down beside the queue. Nikolas run after him, but Phillip was away. When Nikolas went back to Julie and me, he said "I can't find Phillip, he is away". Then we had to run and look after him. Julie said "maybe we could split us" but Nikolas think that was a bad idea. "I agree with Nikolas, think if we lose each other".

We was going past a candy shop. I saw a boy inside there, it was Phillip! We run in to the candy shop and said to Phillip "you can't run away like that". He said that he never was going to do that again. When we had found Phillip we went home. This was a funny day but also a little scary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhh8EiHikFI

-C