Rishikesh

We finally made it to Rishikesh late Sunday afternoon by the bus that was supposed to take us an hour and actually did.  Yay!

Rishikesh is considered to be one of the gateways to the Himalayas as well as the yoga capital of the world so naturally it was filled with hippies, pilgrims and yogis.  After being harassed by our rickshaw driver for not giving him the overpriced amount we agreed on when he decided to drop us before the place we told him we arrived at Lakshman Jhula bridge, a suspension bridge over the Ganges river.  

  

I'm not sure how many people cross the bridge everyday or better yet at one time but as you can see from Lauren's face it's a little scary.

Although it rained 99.9% of the time we were in Rishikesh it was actually pretty relaxing and peaceful.  Most of our time was spent at the Buddha Cafe (yes we ate there three times) but really that was because it took us 20 mins to get a menu 2 hours to get our food and another hour to get hour check each time we went.  The only explanation I have for why we kept going back despite the poor service was that again, it rained 99.9% of the time, we had nothing else to do, and it was just so quaint and peaceful there.  See photos below:

Of course a trip to the yoga capital of the world could not be complete without stepping in a pile of cow poop.  Just kidding -sort of.  While I did step in a very large pile of cow poop, we also did some late afternoon yoga with your stereotypical yoga guru looking man.  The session was really relaxing but also depressing to realize I haven't moved my body much in the past two months.  Really happy I bought that CorePower Yoga Groupon.