Holi

Have you ever heard of the Color Fesival in India?
This is what happens (according to Indians) – people all over India celebrate a two days festival called Holi. Though tightly connected to Hindi believes it carries through a message of the good celebrating victory over the evil. Colors are used to highlight the happiness.
This is what actually happens (our view) – people go crazy! Or else - they lock themselves in their houses and don’t come out for 2 days. We’d have done the same unless, of course, someone wouldn’t have knocked on our door early in the morning, waited for us to open it and then generously applied some red color on our faces saying „Happy Holi!”. For good or for bad, this meant we’re IN.
The rest of the day we spent going around Kullu getting more and more color all over, receiving some cold water baths from people up on their roofs and fighting with little boys and their water guns. Despite our initial scepticism about the festival we must now admit we hadn’t had as much fun for quite some time. Of course later on we had to face the consequences and clean ourselves and our clothes. Never in my life have I so much longed for a washing machine.