A Guide to Travelling in India
India is vast. It is the world’s seventh largest country by land mass and has more than one billion people living here, making it the world’s second most populous country after China. Cradled within this huge mass is a nation full of seemingly endless diversity with regard to landscapes, language, culture, food and people. India has the capacity in equal measure to overload the senses of and delight to the extreme all those who venture here.
India is not for everyone; there are those who will tell you that while visiting India you cannot fail to come across displays of abject poverty on an almost constant basis – something which can push your emotional buttons to the max. They will speak of the seemingly ever-present dust-clouds, odours of dung-smoke and diesel fumes which serve to irritate both body and mind.
However, tourists and travellers still flock here in vast numbers every year and for every detractor who relates all that is negative, there are also those who will describe India as something very different. These are the people who have become beguiled and bewitched by a land in which Buddha lived and which still practices rituals so ancient no-one knows exactly where and when they began. These are the people who have enjoyed India’s fantastic cuisine and its stunning wildlife or perhaps wandered – full of wonder – around bazaars teeming with the exotic and colourful or found themselves constantly face-to-face with quirky reminders of the British Raj. These are the[……]
