India Staying alive on boiled potatoes, tea and joints
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Johan Kruseman
Updated on 18 October 2024
Updated on 18 October 2024
A bus and a horse-drawn carriage later, I met someone who called himself Alibaba. He had been eating only boiled potatoes for 39 years, drank only tea, and smoked only joints in his house carved into a rock. Every evening, he fed the peacocks. I have no idea how long the list of extremely extraordinary people will become, but India seems to have a patent on them.
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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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