Looking for a challenge

101challenges

Hi all
Me and my brother are travelling in Asia including India for 1 year from Dec 07. We are doing 101 challenges on the way (www.101challenges.com) and need to know where we can see and participate in the art of fire walking. Has anybody came across this on their travels? These challenges are placed by people visiting our site and we have to attempt them when we are away, this is one challenge we need professional help with.
So if you know of anywhere please let me know.
Cheers
Lee

rangers

Hi
Sanjay again here.
Here are few new kinda challenge if u like.

1.Chasing wild elepahnts out of villages?

2.Chasing corcodiles outa villages?

3.Playing BANATI.

ready??
smiles
Sanjay

steven_ber

Hello Lee and welcome to indiamike.com

I've had a quick look at your website.

Your idea is brilliant, but I really hope you get to choose the challenges and don't have to take the ideas that get the most votes.

Some of the challenges were probably suggested with the best intentions, but without a lot of thought.

Visiting a charity for a weekend or even a week will only hinder the charity, not help it.

Be careful about suggestions including nudity or kissing, our British sense of humour doesn't travel well and some people can be very offended by such behaviour.

Love the Thai Ladyboys suggestion, but watch out, some of those Ladyboys are known to be violent, especially in groups.

One suggested challenge: -

There are soldiers in India who play the bagpipes, find them and play alongside them with some borrowed bagpipes.

Anyway, good luck with the challenge.

__________________
.
How to get helpful replies to your transport/Itinerary questions.



Train information.

rangers

Yes I agree with Steven.

And bagpiper yes ..can be an idea too and I do have a battalion next to my garden who plays them every evening.
Hope I can help you out.

Or how about charming a pet snake !( non poison one of course)

As I told you..welcome to this place.You can get active reports .All the best.

sanjay

edwardseco

Fire walking, I know that is done in Sri Lanka, could head there. Eating monkey brains as well according to the movie..

Shark

How about drinking the urine of a cow as it comes straight from the vessel. I kid you not, I have seen a Sadhu in Gokarana do just that.

New-South-Welshman

Sounds like my next trip to India, except I only have one challenge. Visit every pub/club in Bombay. And get totally blasted.

__________________
Mr. Burns "Non-violence never solved anything!"

edwardseco

There is a procession in Pune where they stick arrows through their cheeks (no blood). Others hang fruits from their bodies using fish hooks. Join in for a real adventure. But, there is a trick to it..

Nick-H

You can do firewalking in UK --- if you must!

There are knacks and techniques to these things, and if I was ever to try (doubt that I would), I'd rather have a total understanding of the language of the person teaching me. You're not going to get very far afterwards with burnt feet.

I understand that it is to do with conquering your fears and so on, but I think I'll stick to shopping!

__________________
.


Just one member of the IndiaMike Mod Team

shashank.aggarwal

There have been several documentaries on Discovery channel about these things. These things do look scary and actually requires a lot of guts, but there is a lot of science involved in them. Any person who can dare can do these things...

Like for example fire-walking..its not the 'fire' that they walk on, but they walk on 'Sholay' I guess we call them ambers in english...

They actually give light and heat, however on the outside they get covered with ash..this ash is very poor conductor of heat and when a person starts to walk on it, the ash covers the bottom of the feet and also there is a outer shell of ash on ambers as well..so the amount of heat that actually is transferred is very low and hence the person doesn't feel much of heat..

__________________
Travelogue - Around India
Random Reviews

101challenges

Cheers to all that replied.
If you fancy challenging us can you do it through the site as its a lot simpler for us. Firewalking in Sri lanka, well we are going there too, any idea where and when?
Cheers again all
Lee

Nick-H

Shashank, that would be embers. Amber is the brown fossilised resin from which beads and jewellery are found.

I'm interested by your explanation, which makes sense to me. But I also know that when you sit by the glowing embers of a fire, it gives off quite a lot of heat. I think there is risk, and people have been injured doing this.

Cameleer

Don’t forget when doing the firewalking to put a piece of coal in-between your teeth and blow out glowing embers.
The firewalkers that I saw when in Bikaner put water over the sand getting it nice and wet so their feet were wet before and after crossing the coals.
They got a big log fire going and then moved the burning logs out of the way leaving only the coals which of course are only burning along the upper layer where there is air. Deeper down it’s much cooler and when walking across it you can kick your feet into the coals digging down where it is cooler, this also puts on a better show as glowing embers go flying as you kick them getting to the cooler ones.
Ok, who’s up to doing some firewalking now?

Nick-H

It sounds great.

In theory.

You go ahead. I'll just watch.

And hold the first-aid kit !

nyraghu

When I was a graduate student in Madras long ago, some of my friends who were associated with the then new Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF) used to walk on embers in some of their rural camps. These camps had several purposes, one of which was to dispel the idea that such things need divine or miraculous powers. The Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP), which was perhaps the first of these organisations, used to conduct similar camps in Kerala.

I don't remember the scientific explanation for the phenomenon. One thing my friends used to say was that one should walk easily, without hurrying or pausing. Anyway, if you are seriously interested, let me know, and I can try to put you in touch with some of them.

Walking on embers is often done in large temple fairs, as is described in a news report of such a walk in 2005 by over hundred thousand people near Erode, Tamil Nadu.

Going OT a bit, but for a worthy cause, the TNSF is a voluntary organization (an NGO in local parlance), and publishes wonderful science magazines for children in Tamil and English, called `Thulir' and `Jantar Mantar,' respectively. If people are interested in these magazines, please let me know, and I can put you in touch with the relevant people.

Raghu.