Did you ever wish you are a princess/prince? Or a queen/king?
Did you ever had a royal experience somehow? Well, I had. On some various occasions. During my travel in India.
I, together with three travel buddies, went to India to attend a friend’s wedding. But more than the wedding we did. We traveled to various places in India for about 16 days. And some of the highlights of our Indian adventure were our royal moments…
We had an elephant ride in Jaipur, a city of north India, on the way up the Amer palace. In ancient times, only the royal family had the luxury to ride an elephant, while commoners walk on their feet to move from place to place. As I climbed up the elephant, I was a little scared. And became even more scared when the elephant started to move. They are so big and I thought, when I fall… if I fall… well, I don’t know- They could step on me and crush me to death or something. But half way up the palace, I started to enjoy it. Especially when my elephant started to shower me with a liquid something from inside its trunk. Haha! It´s a bit disgusting, yes. But I enjoyed it somehow. Afterall, who got to be showered (in a regular basis) with this elephanty liquidy stuff anyway? The royals, who else?!
While getting ready for the grand Indian wedding, we also had a royal experience. We were dressed in our saris by three lovely, friendly ladies.
Yes, it took 3 ladies to get me in my sari. All I did was stand on my heels, arms raised up, while they gently wrap me in silk sari cloth glittering with gold embroidery. I reveled on the 5-10 minute princess moment with my mind saying “Ahhhh… I can get used to this!” Mind you, it felt so good. It felt princessly.
This is me with the 3 lovely ladies who were kind enough to help me with my sari.
After the 2-day wedding in Madurai, we went ahead on our following destination down south. With so much traveling that had taken place for more than a week this time, our bodies were aching and shouting for a massage. So we booked an ayurvedic massage therapy in Munnar, Kerala, which apparently is very popular in the country.
I took an 80-minute whole body massage with medical steam bath. Three different oil/gel was used in this therapy pax. One for my hair and scalp, a cool gel for the face (awesome, like no other!), and a warmed oil for the body. My masseuse began with my hair and scalp and a head massage. Which was followed by a relieving face massage which made me feel the most beautiful face on the planet (!). She then continued down to my whole body. She carefully, but deliberately poured a warm thick oil all over me while I lay naked on a black leather bed with my eyes leisurely closed. She put so much oil I can swim on it if I must. The pressure from her capable hands while she massages me literally squeezed out the pain and fatigue out of my muscles. This took place for about an hour and I swear I went to heaven! A therapeutic steam bath followed for 20 minutes. It was a bliss. It was heavenly therapeutic.
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Now I am back to Germany. Back to being a commoner. And back to work. But I will definitely treat myself to some royal experience from time to time. I think we all should. 🙂
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