Tuesday, January 01, 2008

India: Massage

After a morning of freezing to death on a safari Jeep, we went back to the hotel to grab some breakfast and get a massage. The cheap bastard in me couldn't pass up an 800 rupee ($20) hour massage.

This is a picture of the massage mat, where we had the massage done on our hotel room floor. The only major issue was that the room was absolutely freezing (subtropical climates have a tendency not to invest in centralized heating.)

The massages fell into the chocolate cake category - you can't have a bad one. But this was definitely not a Kelly Lowe massage as far as ambiance. The real interesting thing though was the fact that it was a traditional Indian massage - so a lot of chakra massaging, different strokes, different order to the body parts that I'm usually used to.