India (Northern)
© Photos from the album of Linda Young
Delhi, Jaipur, Udaipur, Agra, Varanasi, Mumbai. India is a shock to the senses. I have never been anywhere else where I felt as if every single one of my senses was engaged simultaneously at all times! In the streets, there are people everywhere! And elephant and cows and dogs and monkeys and carts and bikes and scooters and cars and tracks and tut-tuts and women in beautiful saris and children and cats and tricycles and camels and buses and wagons and snakes and goats and tires on flatbeds and street markets everywhere. There are no stop lights, no lanes, just one huge jumble of species, and might makes right. Add to this the pungent saffron and curry assailing your nostrils, the cacophony of sounds, the heat of the sun on your skin, and the taste of the dust from the road on your tongue. You can hardly absorb so much.
Have you ever seen anything so out of time as this? Do you know what will happen if you wait much longer to go? The ultimate irony is that you can experience these things by day as if you lived hundreds of years ago then dwell by night in a luxurious palace. This is the most amazing of all worlds. But the former will disappear. Let us book you to India now.
