Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Happy Holi!

Holi, the festival to ring in the arrival of spring is celebrated by rubbing, spraying, throwing, dousing, and otherwise covering everyone and everything in (possbly toxic) pigment. Although it cost me a shirt, it was really fun. The one drawback is that Diu is a Union Territory (read: cheap booze) and the attached state of Gurjurat is dry. Combined with a national holiday, it leads to lots of Indian tourists who can't handle their alcohol. The bars are all in one strip along the water, so most of the drunkenness was contained, and we didn't really have any trouble, aside from some good-spirited colour fights.




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