India

India - it seems like my diary was a recounting of all the difficult trips and frustrating experiences we had. I generally didn't spend much time describing all the amazing things that we saw but that was probably because it was all in the guide books anyway.

India is a magnificent place to visit but it's also a very frustrating place to visit. Historical forts, temples, mosques, hotels in lakes, maharajah's palaces, grand colonial buildings, elephants, camels and cows everywhere, ancient cars, rickshaws, tombs, the Taj Mahal, amazing colours and smells. But also bureaucracy, people following you around, grabbing you, no respite from the heat and dust, smells, squalor, terrifying bus journeys, baksheesh, terrifying queues and toilets that would make trainspotting jealous.

And....don't go to the desert states at the hottest time of the year!


And where did we go......

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