India Pictures
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The Taj Mahal at dawn, Agra, India.
Click on the image to see 12 pages of India pictures starting in Kerala, in the the south.
India offers the traveller an amazing, chaotic kaleidoscope of culture, colour, spirituality and claustrophobic insanity.
The must-see list ranges from the Taj in Agra to the forts, palaces and moustachioed men of India's prime tourist state - Rajasthan, naughty but nice temples in Khajuraho, pilgrims bathing in the Ganges at Varanasi, wandering cows on hectic roads, bizarre sadhus, vermilion saris, medieval silver
jewellery, snake charmers, wild wedding parties, hilarious head waggles and much, much more.
Beaches go on for ever, towns are crazed but absorbing [absorbing too many people on the whole!] and Indian
festivals - of which there are many - are mind-boggling.
India is generally safe, low cost, has fine weather if you go to the right place at the right time and is populated by relaxed, amiable people, though rather too many of them.
However...Amitabh Kant, Indian tourist officer said this: 'We have hoardings obscuring heritage sites, we have terrible roads, we have sewage and solid waste problems. And we have some of the lousiest airports in the world.'
On the other hand, a vehicle with English-speaking driver will cost not much more than a normal self-drive car, so spoil yourself, get a chauffeur!
The Amber Fort, Jaipur in India, under seige by tour elephants.