Chandipur beach

''The sea beach in Chandipur is surely one among the finest beaches of the country, but with a plus. Here the waters recede five kilometers offshore and proceed rhythmically after a regular interval everyday. The sand-dunes green with wild creepers and the casuarina whistling with the breeze create a fantastic moment for a visitor absorbed in observing the play of the tide. It is well connected by regular bus service from Balasore.''
The Great Orissa Road Atlas, Edition: 2011 © Vardhman Publications

This panegyric hardly differs from other descriptions of great destinations in India that you can find in tourist pamphlets and posters, for they everywhere arrogantly glorify the ideal state of specified place, just as it would be if the residents haven't made it so dirty and disgusting.The latter, unrevealed, is the actual reality that will (among other obstacles) certainly keep you away from the joy of natural beauties. You are going to spend money for accommodation (which holds the same secret: looks great on the flyer..), and more money for transport when trying to get out of there. Does the idilic description come from persons with unimaginably different concepts and standards? ...

''Incredible India'' is a motto which stretches from the posters in Indian Ambassy (where they shamelessly asked for the bribe), all the way to the middle-of-nowhere village in India where it comes from a mouth of local guy responding cynically to one of the numerous shocks on your Foreigner face.

This (as well as some other Indian themes) definitely evokes again ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', Andersen's fairy tale: did no one see that the emperor has no clothes or I'm just in the middle of some strange play and still don't comprehend? What do I get for pretending that Emperor has a divine robe? The ''smart-asses'' behind the pamphlets got the bliss of their only one beloved God - the Rupee, but my benefit from the unintelligible 'incredible' experiences of disgust is also not to remain in silence: expansion of my inner setup, my previous sets of notions. That's a trade.. Dirt in India – it's not a news. But a gigantic question mark still remains above the head, urgently seeking a comfort in utopian visions of future - if the anticipated global disaster does not happen.
At the Chandipur beach – you surely can see it coming rapidly.

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A beautiful sand beach at the east coast, state Orissa, was suppose to be a refuge from awful Bhubaneswar, and depressive areas around Jajapur where they didn't let us in the only-for-Hindus Biraja temple. There you can observe the contrast between beautiful jungle and humans that stand indifferent in their own dirt. Do they really have the eye-filters against certain things as Arundhati Roy (''The God of Small Things'') named it, or they can see but they merged with pretending it's alright? A skill that is passed on for generations...
So we hoped to reach this beach, sleep at the fresh air, and to wake up with a sunrise... Yeah, right!

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After we finally got to the scary beach (garbage dump) in the middle of the night, we changed our mind and tried to get a hotel. But they (as usually) priced it triple - the ''foreigner price''. There was also no way to go back to a town Balasore at that time, so we went back to the beach and slept at 2 square meters without garbage.

Around 5 AM, three tourist buses excreted bunch of insane Indian tourists with cellphones and fresh garbage who came yelling and screaming to walk those five kilometers offshore where waters recede, for cool pic to take and fresh shit to leave, as well as at least one piece of plastic per person, a gift for the sand.

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They were just standing in their own trash and they were still emitting excited screeches about their own existence.
While I was taking pictures of the beach for this blog, they were taking videos of me, to show a Foreigner when they come back from a vacation. No one will see garbage on the video also. I would take more pictures but I saw my travel companion waiting for me all terrified by those facts that you can't do nothing with but drown in anxiety, so I left quickly.

Shameless, blind, ignorant, demented...?
It doesn't help.

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