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Meeting a fortune-teller for one hour in an empty bus
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Johan Kruseman
Updated on 14 August 2024
Updated on 14 August 2024
In Rajasthan, the province I was in, there are many fantastically interesting places. The next one was Jaisalmer, and at the bus station in Jodhpur, I found a willing man to show me the bus to Jaisalmer. He took me to an empty bus, and he sat next to me in the bus. Since I had never seen an empty bus going somewhere that same day, I asked when it would depart. He said in an hour and started fortune-telling.
According to him, he was a famous fortune-teller. He asked for my date of birth and asked to see my hand. Then he could tell from the lines on my hand that I was an Aries. Hmmm, almost right, but the date of birth I had just told him was definitely associated with the zodiac sign Pisces. Not deterred by this setback, he grabbed my hand again and read that I currently had stomach problems. Not a strange thought in India, but I felt perfectly fine. He quickly corrected himself by saying that he had forgotten the future line: “in the near future, you will have stomach problems.”
Time to move on! I got out of the still empty bus, and quickly found the real bus to Jaisalmer, which was leaving in ten minutes.
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Traveled route: Ganges, Varanassi, Agra, Taj Mahal, Buland Darwaza, Jaipur, Fatehpur Shekhawati, Ajmer, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Bundi, Udaipur, Mumbai, Goa, Hampi
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