Before leaving Mumbai, we asked our driver how far is the ressort where the wedding had to take place. He told us:"180 km", and added "3,5 - 4 hours of driving"...yeah, this is India.
Another typical thing you see on the road in India, is that evrybody is blowing their car horns like crazy. We discovered that actually this is the way to prevent the driver in front of you that you are coming and not to do smth stupid. The trucks have on the back the message "Blow horn please", which means, please tell me you are there and I will let you pass. Funny huh? :-)
We arrived to Silvassa, with Amit, our indian friend who is living in Barcelona now and two more friends of him. It was a ressort rented for the guests, a very nice place with guest houses, swimming pool, restaurant and open space for the outdoors reception. In this huge place 600 people were expected for the wedding. The wedding was planned to last two days: 21-22 nd of Dec.
We were kind of starving when we arrived, so, after leaving our stuff in the rooms, we found a room where the lunch was served. First Juli's words in the restaurant were: "OK, so finally, I can have a beer and eat a big plate of meat!", on what our friend replied - "Sorry, this is a Vegetarian wedding with no alcohol"....you should have seen Juli's face haha
Actually Gujarad is a dry state, what means alcohol is prohibited by law. Of course people drink, but only in their houses. Besides that, parents of the groom were ortodox (meaning conservative hinduists), convinced vegetarians. Well, Juli had to relax for 3 days without meat, although alcohol was found in some hidden rooms, where precacious guests kept bottles of alcohol brought from home :-)
These first days we discovered that in India even tea can be spicy. Everything was so hot so after 2nd bite we actually didn't care what we are eating:-D Juli was suffering fishing pieces of cheese and potatos in the food, since he can't eat any other vegetables and I was pretty happy with the food, but still , it was soooo spicyyyy. You can see it on the pic haha
The ceremony of the wedding was really colourful and beautiful. Sauil and Arpita, groom and bride, were dressed in golden red clothes, surrounded by a lot of people doing some indian traditional rituals. We were watching and ejoying this magic scene...feeling like in a Bollywood movie:-)
We dressed in the indian traditional clothes (our friend Aparna helped us to buy everything in Mumbai a night before), we ate indian food, saw national dances and traditions, met great people and had a really good time.
On the 23rd we were back in Mumbai and the next day we flew to Delhi, starting our trip in the golden triangle (Delhi, Agra, Jaipur).
Another typical thing you see on the road in India, is that evrybody is blowing their car horns like crazy. We discovered that actually this is the way to prevent the driver in front of you that you are coming and not to do smth stupid. The trucks have on the back the message "Blow horn please", which means, please tell me you are there and I will let you pass. Funny huh? :-)
We arrived to Silvassa, with Amit, our indian friend who is living in Barcelona now and two more friends of him. It was a ressort rented for the guests, a very nice place with guest houses, swimming pool, restaurant and open space for the outdoors reception. In this huge place 600 people were expected for the wedding. The wedding was planned to last two days: 21-22 nd of Dec.
We were kind of starving when we arrived, so, after leaving our stuff in the rooms, we found a room where the lunch was served. First Juli's words in the restaurant were: "OK, so finally, I can have a beer and eat a big plate of meat!", on what our friend replied - "Sorry, this is a Vegetarian wedding with no alcohol"....you should have seen Juli's face haha
Actually Gujarad is a dry state, what means alcohol is prohibited by law. Of course people drink, but only in their houses. Besides that, parents of the groom were ortodox (meaning conservative hinduists), convinced vegetarians. Well, Juli had to relax for 3 days without meat, although alcohol was found in some hidden rooms, where precacious guests kept bottles of alcohol brought from home :-)
These first days we discovered that in India even tea can be spicy. Everything was so hot so after 2nd bite we actually didn't care what we are eating:-D Juli was suffering fishing pieces of cheese and potatos in the food, since he can't eat any other vegetables and I was pretty happy with the food, but still , it was soooo spicyyyy. You can see it on the pic hahaThe ceremony of the wedding was really colourful and beautiful. Sauil and Arpita, groom and bride, were dressed in golden red clothes, surrounded by a lot of people doing some indian traditional rituals. We were watching and ejoying this magic scene...feeling like in a Bollywood movie:-)We dressed in the indian traditional clothes (our friend Aparna helped us to buy everything in Mumbai a night before), we ate indian food, saw national dances and traditions, met great people and had a really good time.On the 23rd we were back in Mumbai and the next day we flew to Delhi, starting our trip in the golden triangle (Delhi, Agra, Jaipur).
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