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INDIA IS SUCH A DIVERSE COUNTRY, WITH ITS POPULATION EXCEEDING THE BILLION MARK ITS NO WONDER. THERE ARE MANY WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS PLACE, ITS HECTIC,CHAOTIC, DIRTY, SO POLLUTED BUT THEN ITS ALSO BREATHTAKING, IN ALL THE NOISE AND MADNESS ARE GEMS OF PLACES LIKE THE TEMPLES, THE DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES AND SOME GENUINELY FRIENDLY PE0PLE. BUT NOTHING I READ ABOUT INDIA CAN PREPARE U FOR WHEN U GET HERE.IT REALLY IS A PLACE LIKE NO OTHER.ITS AN EXPERIENCE EVERYONE SHOULD UNDERTAKE. I WILL DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT .THOUGH WE VE HAD GOOD AND BAD TIMES , THEIR ARE DAYS WHEN U HATE AND LOVE IT, IT REALLY GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN AND THATS WHY I WILL PROBABLY COME BACK..BUT JUST AS WE ARE GETTING USE TO THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE, AND WE ARE PROS WITH BARGAINING DOWN THE RICHSHAW DRIVERS WE HAVE TO LEAVE.3WEEKS IS DEFINITELY NOT ENOUGH TIME.BUT IM PROUD OF THE DISTANCES WE HAVE TRAVELLED.FROM DELHI THE CAPITAL WITH ALL ITS DELBOYS AND RODNEYS, TO JAIPUR THE PINK CITY AND ALL ITS CHARMERS(RAUL AND JANU) TO AGGRESSIVE AGRA WITH ITS ANNOYING TOUTS BUT THE TAJ MAHAL MADE UP FOR THIS, TO THE HOLY CITY OF VARANASSI AND THEN TO THE CALMER MORE STRUCTURED CALCUTTA.

ITS NOT FAIR TO CATERGORISE OUR EXPERIENCES INTO POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE BECAUSE SIMPLY GOOD OR BAD THEY ARE STILL EXPERIENCES AND ONE CAN LEARN FROM THEM.( I THINK WE HAVE) BUT I WOULD LIKE TO TELL U MY FAVOURITE EXPERIENCE.

THE TAJ MAHAL

ARRIVING IN AGRA WAS MAD.LOTS OF PEOPLE HARRASIN U FOR MONEY, TO BUY THINGS ETC. IT WAS A ROASTING DAY. ALL WE WANTED TO DO WAS SEE THE TAJ MAHAL.TEE WASNT TOO PUSHED IN SEEING IT. SO WE THOUGHT WE COULD WALK AROUND ITS GARDENS BUT U CANT DO THIS U HAV TO PAY THE 750RUPEES ALOT OF MONEY IN.BUT BELIEVE ME ITS WORTH IT. FOR ME WHEN SOMEONE MENTIONS INDIA I THINK OF THE TAJ MAHAL.ITS WHERE I REALLY FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT I WAS IN INDIA.IT WA AMAZING.SO ROMANTIC.I PERSONALLY THINK ITS MORE ROMANTIC THAN PARIS.THE REASON ITS SO ROMANTIC IS BECAUSE THE EMPEROR AT THE TIME BUILT IT IN HONOUR OF HIS WIFE WHO DIED GIVING CHILDBIRTH.SO LISTEN UP LADS ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PROPOSE TO ME IT WILL HAVE TO BE AT THE TAJ MAHAL.HE HE.

AFTER THIS IT WOULD HAVE TO BE THE TIGER FORT OVERLOOKING THE PINK CITY JAIPUR AT SUNSET.IT WAS BREATHTAKING WITH ALL THE LIGHTS.IN THE BACKGROUND U COULD HERE ALL THE NOISE, PEOPLE PRAYING AND ME AND TEE SINGING MOLLY MALONE TO OUR RICKSHAW DRIVERS JANU AND RAUL.V SURREAL BUT BRILLIANT.

INDIA IS A REAL EYE OPENER.THE POVERTY IS UNBELIVABLE.,WE HAVE SEEN SOME HORRID SIGHTS LIKE BABIES JUST LYING ON THE GROUND CRYING COVERED IN FLIES.SUCH THINGS ARE HARD TO BLOCK OUT BUT U HAVE TO IN ODER TO SEE THE OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPENING.BUT ARRIVING IN CALCUTTA AND VISITING THE HOPE FOUNDATION WHERE LISA WORKS WAS AN AMAZING DAY.THE PEOPLE HERE WORK REALLY HARD TO LOOK AFTER 26 GIRLS RANGING IN ALL DIFFERENT AGES.IT WAS GREAT TO MEET THEM AND SEE THEIR EYES LIGHT UP WHEN WE GAVE THEM PRESENTS.JUST SHOWS U THAT KIDS ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE THE SAME NICE TO SEE SUCH ORGANISATIONS HELPING THE CHILDREN.

THINGS THAT I LL NEVER FORGET ABOUT INIDA

THE HORNS-THE BEEP THEIR HORNS EVEN WHEN THERE IS NOBODY INFRONT OF THEM FOR NO REASON.THE NOISE NEVER STOPS.
THE SPITTING-THEY ARE ALWAYS SPITTING- SOMETIMES U HAV TO DODGE THEM SPITTING AT U.
THE SMELL OF THE STRETS-MIXTURE OF THE DIFFERENT FOODS BEING COOKED AND ALSO THE SMELL OF PEE- BUT U DO GET USE TO IT.ITS JUST IF U GET A GUSH OF IT BOY DOES IT STINK
THE SKINNY DOGS- THEY LOOK LIKE THEY HAVENT BEEN FEED IN YEARS.THEY LOOK MORE LIKE CATS.
THE COWS ON THE ST AND AT THE STATION, ASWELL AS THE MONKIES.
THE RICHSHAW DRIVERS TRYING TO RIP US OFF ALL THE TIME-THEIR VOICES YES MADAM RICHSHAWWWWWWWWWWW. THEY STILL ASK EVEN THOUGH U VE TOLD THEM 20TIMES.

IT WAS ALL AN EXPERIECE WHICH WE ENJOYED AND ENDURED AND WE ARE JUST GLAD THAT WE MANAGED IT WITH SAFETY.SINCE WE HAVE BEEN HERE ALOT HAS HAPPENED TO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE, WITH THE TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN PAKISTAN, TO TODAY A MASSIVE TRAIN CRASH AND JUST BEFORE WE CAME OUT WE LOOKED AT THE NEWS AND THERE WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK IN DELHI.THIS I MUST SAY REALLY FREAKED US OUT.THE REASON IT DID IS BECAUSE ARE ORIGNAL PLAN WAS NOT TO LEAVE FROM CALCUTTA BUT TO LEAVE FROM DELHI AND TO GO BACK TO PAHARGANJ AREA WHERE WE STAYED A FEW WEEKS AGO.THIS WAS ONE OF THE PLACES THAT WAS HIT.IT KILLED 35 PEOPLE.NOW MAYBE WE WOULDNT OF BEING OUT ETC BUT STILL ITS SCARY.IT MAKES U THINK HOW PRECIOUS LIFE IS. WE ARE JUST HOPING THAT A POLISH COUPLE THAT WE MET A FEW WEEKS AGO ARE SAFE AS THEY WERE LEAVING DELHI IN 2DAYS TO BACK TO POLAND. THE IMAGES ON THE NEWS ARE HORRIFIC.V FRIGHTENING.I HOPE THEY CATCH WHOEVER DID THIS.

WE VE HAD A GOOD TIME HERE. SOMETHING WE HOPE TO CONTINUE IN THAILAND.LOOKING FORWARD TO THE BEACHES.WILL EMAIL WHEN WE ARRIVE.TAKE CARE FOR NOW.LOVE LIDS.