It has to diversify the force, be it Goran, or not. Maybe even without more. After a week sitting at home at the end of the evening I went to a party (and unnecessarily, it was boring, and quickly washed off the house), on Saturday I went with the youngest senior roommate, Argentinian Diego, for a walk combined with consumption of sandwiches with beef in a typical Mumbai expensive cafe, where the clientele are mostly foreigners and representatives of the richest layer of Indian society.
And yesterday we went along with Zuzana for lying about tens of kilometers away Matheranu, one of the favorite destinations of weekend rest Population Mumbai. 800 m above sea vistas, the quiet, calm, no rickshaws and everything so close by!
got up later than planned, of course. There we managed to direct fast train to 10.58, but I soon must go next? It turned out that musiałybyśmy wait until 13ej, so we took the passenger train ('slow'), staying at 3 km. In addition, the plunger was unbearable, as usual jazgotały baby with a loud voice and pushed up, so after 2 hours in such conditions, we felt as if anyone missed us by a meat grinder. I added a bucket of water, because in this heat ociekałyśmy later.
After a quick lunch (paneer paratha - pancake stuffed with paneer, surprisingly sweet!) Started to look for a rickshaw, which zawiozłaby us to place. Mumbai local train station takes you to neral, there are several kilometers (sharply uphill) to the same Matheranu missing. After a short walk and the negotiations we were able to determine that pay the price for two seats, despite the fact that the rest of the cab was empty, so 120 rupees, not 300th And contrary to our expectations later, the driver has not attempted to draw more. Same road has brought us a lot of experience. Zakrętasy sharp, steep slopes and extensive views from the top of perhaps tens of km in the distance ... For the Indian drivers, who are quite chaotic. Survived, and Zuzana even she could not wait to see a way back:)
As usual as soon as I tried to wade through the area occupied by all sorts of guides, souvenir sellers and other annoying people, which I do not want to spend money. Zuzana interest offer horseback tours to five consecutive points of view, about 3.5 hours for 750 rupees. I even did not have much money, even when a guy went down to 500 rupees, and so I did not want to spend so much time in the saddle, the more that the horse was led by a guide and as a result it does not last less than a foot beat the entire route. In the end we agreed that we need access to the first point - the attraction is, it will take approximately 30-45 minutes and not get tired so much and we spend too much. Guide to quite readily agreed to our 150 rupees, although at first proposed to the 250th
Here we go.
This was my first time on a horse, but not pleased me as much appeal to this way of traveling. I did not feel too confident just, well, and after a while my lower body began to feel any discomfort:)
finally drove to the set point, the center of the village of Matheran. We descend from their horses, and we give the guide arranged Rs 300., And he cries. After umawialiśmy at 250 Rs. per person!
At such moments I start to cook. I'm not trying to explain the matter or re-negotiate - Indian Grifters have taught me that you should just ignore all the dirty lick of this type. There is no chance that suddenly raised the price I pay, why should he? And you do not try to beg to meet the original contract being nice and requests - cholera, umawialiśmy so anyway, and now do not try to trick me, I'm not stupid! Get 300 rupees, or not!
Well Guide has chosen to '300 rupees offends my feelings', and therefore wzruszyłyśmy odeszłyśmy shoulders and, well knowing so this issue is still not finished. It is true that somewhat surprised us not quarrel, and running to us, but the village was small enough that the guy could easily leave the horses, talk with friends and then quietly take care of unloading debt.
have we managed to buy the first souvenirs (very pleasant shops with low prices and are often written on the goods, so there was no need for negotiations), when he came back to us. 500 rupees and 500 rupees. NO! Well, 'he went on his hand to us "and agreed to 400, admitting to mistakes niedopilnowania accurate and discuss the conditions. Hell, no, umawialiśmy at 300, and no matter how much we now veer out of their imaginary money, this will be a scam! Zuzana has slowly began to break, to give him the 400 rupees, because we did not save a guy to come off, but I hit a damn just thinking about it. Cwaniaczek wants to extort extra money, no way.
Finally, even after several attempts for the sake of peace, I agreed that, ok, let it be, ladies 350th Seeing a guy that never gets hit, consented at the end of this amount. And I at this moment: 'Well, and you have to spend the 400? " :) I trusted him not to the extent that first refused to award the money, but insisted the first to get our rest, especially that guy sitting on a horse and could simply leave at any time. In the end it pozbyłyśmy, with a slight distaste, but what do you do it in the end India. We should not give him those 50, I know, and if I was alone, I could spend an entire afternoon thinking up another curse on him, but some began to erode Zuzana my hard work of negotiations, urging me to resign. And so we left with this pretty well, so I think in the end we lost only 1.57 zł per bulb:)
At this point, it sounds awfully probably my whole wykłócanie, but it was a rule. And NIEoszukiwanie foreign tourists. And for my 25 rupees two times I went Æ rickshaw of the house to the train station or buy a bottle of Coke.
Matheran itself proved to be very picturesque and quiet. Spaces where non-use of vehicles mechanical, so it is relatively quiet. Village is surrounded by forests (with a very kurzącą the ground), run everywhere, monkey, and walking distance to several points, offering spectacular views over the surrounding hills and valleys ... I'll put pictures up soon, then we'll see! :) It is a pity that in the nicest place trafiłyśmy burackiej a group of Indian youth who are 'kinda makes' us to stay there to show off, including by pretending to be issued by the sounds of chickens. No straaasznie funny.
stay there zakończyłyśmy buying earrings, wallets and other trinkets, and then suddenly realized that we are not certain whether to 19.30, ie after dusk, at the exit will have to wait some taxis that can carry us to the train station. Leciałyśmy rush by the dim and empty forest has (fortunately were lighthouses along the way), but it turned out that unnecessarily martwiłyśmy. Back went very smoothly and you wheel 22ej we were back at home, devil tired, but satisfied with a momentary odsapnięcia from Mumbai.
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