Monday, August 14, 2006

India


India,it is often said,is not a country but a continent.From north to south and east to west,the people are different,the languages are different,the customs are different,the country is different.There are few countries on earth with the enormous variety that India has to offer.It's a place that somehow gets into your blood.Love it or hate it you can never ignore India.India is a triangle with the top formed by the mighty Himalayan mountain chain.Here you will find the intriguing Tibetan region of Ladakh and the astonishingly beautiful Himalayan areas of Kashmir,Himachal Pradesh,the Garhwal of UttarPradesh and the Darjeeling and Sikkim regions.South of this is the flat Ganges basin with the colourful and comparatively affluent Punjab to the north-west,the capital city New Delhi and important tourist attractions like Agra(with the Taj Mahal),Khajuraho,Varanasi and the holy Ganges.This plain reaches the sea at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal where you find teeming Calcutta(now Kolkata),South of this northern plain the Deccan plateau rises.

Basically india is what you make of it and what you want it to be.If you want to see temples there are temples,if it's history you want India has plenty of it;the forts,abandoned cities,ruins,battlefields and monuments all have their tales to tell.If you simply want to lie on the beach there are enough of those to satisfy the most avid sun worshipper.If walking and the open air is your thing then head for the trekking routes of the Himalaya,some of which are as wild and deserted as you could ask for.If you simply want to meet the real India you'll come face to face with it all the time.India is not a place you simply and clinically 'see';it's a total experience,an assault on the senses,a place you'll never forget.
Source:Lonely Planet

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