Kempty Falls

Mussoorie,26-03-1994. Kempty Falls is about 15 km. from Mussourie and the place to go when you are an indian on your honeymoon. They go there by taxi or rent a Maruti van with choffer. On the way up they buy the blossoms of trees that have fallen oof and have been carefully arranged in a bunch and subseqeuntly sold by by small local children. Almost everyone in Mussoorie seems to be employed in the indian honeymoon business. Everywhere in this small hill station i see hotels ,with TV in every room, video parlours at every street corner, restaurants, bars and souvenir shops with that typical junk that is so popular among indians, you can ride a horse on the mall or be transported around by a man powered rickshaw. I walked the 15 km. to Kempty Falls yesterday which was all the way down and with an astounding number of private schools along the way, obviously for the offspring of rich and weel to do locals. The beautifull scenery along the way was more rewarding than Kempty Falls itself which was obscured by by the many chai stalls, restaurants and all the tourbusses, lots of noisy indians and a few women with pythons of varying sizes, the locals like to be photographed with one or more of these unfortunate reptiles hanging around their necks. Had my dinner with a german buddhist lady from Hagen.