Turkey Eclipses India
Suzan Crane and her rag-tag posse from Goa attended a solar eclipse, which was the high point of an entrancing festival. (Originally published in Untamed Travel, July 2006)
March 20 – Oblivious to Delhi’s daily madness swirling around him, Michael is charging down the main bazaar of Pahar Ganj waving his hands like a lunatic. “I’ve got them,” he shouts, displaying airline tickets with the exuberance of someone holding a winning lottery number. Down the road a large crew is gathered, excitedly discussing the imminent event. Half of Goa, it seems, is in India’s capital preparing – not for the traditional post-winter journey north – but for a mass exodus west. In a few days we’ll all be in Turkey for the week-long SoulClipse Festival, where India-heads will join 8,000 other global partiers outside the Mediterranean city of Antalya to experience the mind-blowing phenomenon of a total solar eclipse.
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