India

India has always been an important destination for Everyone. It is a country so different from any other in the world, that all who travel there come home with deep and lasting impressions. It is a country with such overwhelming feelings of religion, colour, crowds, and extremes, that makes each day a new experience, and each traveller feels that they have indeed spent time away from the ordinary and everyday.

The most experienced of travellers often find the complexities, seeming chaos, and sheer numbers in India quite overwhelming. India can be the hardest, yet most rewarding country to visit.

Highlights include a visit to the Ganges early in the morning to take a boat ride past the Bathing Ghats. The early morning light of the rising sun touches the river with a golden glow that gives colour and magic to the astounding scenes along the river. Men carrying brass pots to ritually pour the water over themselves, women bobbing into the water in beautiful saris, holy men greeting the sun or seated in audience beneath large umbrellas, hawkers, children playing, curious tourists, and family groups at the burning ghats, attending the cremation of a loved one…….all part of the Varanasi scene. And all making the early morning rise most worth while.

It is difficult to totally describe the internationally accepted symbol of India "the Taj Mahal". A few metres of celluloid are always used to capture the images of this magnificent building at sunrise, full sunlight, and sunset, from every direction imaginable. This marble and precious stone monument can really have the most hardened of travellers searching for superlatives when they try to describe their first "Taj" experience.