Rishikesh. The yoga center of India, and also the place that 'hippy-ized' India in the 1960's when the Beatles met the Maharaji. I went yesterday for the day to see what all the fuss was about, and to also get a chance to see the Ganges River and perhaps witness a few pilgrimages. Rishikesh is where the Ganges comes out of the Himalayas.

The first thing that struck me were the tourists, mostly German, who were obviously inspired by John Lennon's wearing of Indian garb and Gandhi's bare feet. I suppose if I hung out doing yoga all day, meditating, living off of lentils and rice, and chilling with the roaming cows and monkeys; then I too may be wearing bindi's, smoking bidi's and wearing free-flowing linen blouses. A few photos of the murky Ganges waters and the sadhu's, traditional Indian wisemen, and of course, the cows. Moooooo.