flowers for the ceremony
welcome to Rishikesh India so this is the yoga capital of the world that's
also where the Beatles came in the 60s and learned meditation and that's about
as much as I know about this place I know that it's a dry State and so you
can't get alcohol you don't drink alcohol here and also it's all
vegetarians so you don't find meat this is also the most touristy place that
I've been yet so I decided to leave the city where all of the tourists are and
follow all of these locals they all seem to be making this pilgrimage somewhere
and so I'm just following a ton of of locals and hopefully they're gonna be
going somewhere along the river let's find out
so the Beatles made this place really popular
Rishikesh and because it's become the yoga capital of the world millions of
people flock here all year people from all over the world to learn yoga and to
get their teaching certification in yoga and so there are so many tourists here
I've never seen anything in India like
all right so it looks like we were making the pilgrimage to ram jhula which
is the main bridge the biggest bridge here in Rishikesh and if you can see
what the Sun here we're right next to it the goths down here where everybody
bathes in the morning and the evening
you feel it swaying with the wind and with the motorcycles that are going over
it right now so right now you're looking at the Ganges River or the Ganga the
holiest River in the world so as with everywhere in India is just a cow here a
cow here in the middle of this bridge took about five minutes to get to the
middle so I don't know how you see it and then I saw a little bit further down
here there's a monkey let me show you
alright I hear some music going on down the river a little more so let's go see
what's going on sounds like some kind of ceremony I like the new travel bump a
little boom yeah yeah alright so I just met these guys by the side of the river
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all right so these little girls are selling these these are the flowers for
the ceremony that you do in the Ganga river here and these girls are selling
these to the crowd and they wanted money but I said I have none
no money so they asked where I was from and they said because I'm American and
it's a gift which is not the usual usually it's the opposite and I have to
pay more so pretty cool I'm gonna go learn how to do this with my new friends
here they're gonna teach me of you guys my name is behind you and my name is
Chaddock Saxena and that's opposite rubber and let's go to the Ganga and put
the audience
yes 11
I misbehave Ivana
if California bucks this cow
we're just watching some art D right now art is the ceremony that they do every
night in front of us with the governor or the Ganges
here's the real
so now it's about eight o'clock and I have a long walk down a dark street so
see what happens when you just follow locals if all else fails and you don't
know what to do when you get somewhere just follow the locals and you're bound
to have a good time and probably have a really special experience that you
wouldn't have had if you just followed the guidebooks so when in doubt follow
the locals today was a great experience made some friends a great first day in
Rishikesh see you tomorrow you're awesome for making it all the way
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