I Love / Hate India

Still can't really get my head around India. It is just so alien to everywhere else I have ever been. And even though we're travelling in a truck, that sanitises us from the real flavour of the streets, it's still an awesome experience to travel through the country.

And that's what we've been doing. Travelling. Lots. It's been a mad dash from fort to temple to palace, and then back to another fort and another temple. We're about templed/forted/palaced out now, which is lucky, cos this is the end of the trip. However, one building stood out. Of course, the Taj Mahal. Had the same sort of feeling seeing that for the first time as I did when I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time. I'd seen all the pics and films before, but they just don't do it justice. We went at dawn to catch the pink glow of the rising sun (didn't happen, too smoggy) and again in the evening to catch the golden rays of the setting sun (didn't happen, too cloudy, and got caught up in beach cricket anyway).

So now it's just about time to say goodbye to another bunch of new and good friends that I made on this trip. I hate this part; it sucks bigtime.