INDIA

We've been in India 5 days now. We arrived in Delhi on the 11th at 5am. We didn't get to see too much, had to sleep a little and then spent most of the day trying to find our way to the train station to buy tickets for the next day. From what little we saw, Delhi is a very busy place!

We went to Agra on the 12th to see the Taj Mahal. On the recommendation of our hotel, too hired a tour guide and it was a very good decision. Our guide was great, and filled us in on all the history and the architectural details. They say that even with all the hype, few are disappointed and it's true.

From Agra we took the train (16 hours...don't have enough battery life to tell that whole story) to Varanasi and we've been here since Friday. The city is on the Ganges river, considered the holiest river in India. Everything happens in this river, people bathe in it (themselves and as we saw today, their cows), do their laundry, drink from it, and send off the dead. We are staying close to the "burning ghat". According to our boat driver, people from all over India bring their dead relatives to be burned and their ashes placed into the Ganges. We were able to take both a sunset and sunrise boat trip down the river and saw a lot of interesting things.
All the photos below are taken from the river, except the Taj Mahal photo.

India has been a very interesting and eye opening experience. Tomorrow we are off to Nepal for probably 10 days and then back into India for a few days before flying to Bangkok.