Sunday, February 28, 2010

Holi-Mania! The Festival of Colors

We’ve spent the last month in awe of the brilliant colors of India and as fate would have it, our departure date happens to fall on the occasion of one of the most vibrant Hindu festivals of the year – Holi. I can’t think of a more fitting celebration to mark the end of our GSE experience! Based on the Hindu calendar, this year Holi falls on March 1st and was originally an agricultural festival celebrating the arrival of spring and commemorating various events in Hindu mythology. Given that we will be en route to Delhi and Agra early tomorrow morning, our hosts arranged a special event for us today to ensure that we didn’t miss out. What a sight it was! Greeted with fistfuls of colored powder rubbed across our face and clothes, it wasn’t long before we were right in middle of all the crazy action, dumping bucketfuls of colored water over one another and shooting water guns under the cool spray of a huge fountain in the early morning sunlight. Our clothes drenched and our skin dyed various shades of pink, green, purple and yellow, there was nothing left for us to do but laugh uncontrollably and shout over blasting Hindi music: “Only in India!!!”.

1 comment:

  1. You guys are looking great, have a good last day and safe travels tomorrow to Delhi. I will see you guys next week.

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