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Since time
immemorial, India has attracted visitors with an almost magnetic
intensity. The medieval world regarded India as a metaphor for all
that was exotic and rich beyond compare; India attracts, seduces
and enchants with a unique combination of sights, sounds and
sensations. Whatever it is you want from a holiday you'll find it
in India . There are royal palaces, abandoned cities, monuments
and desert fortresses, temples, beach resorts, hill stations,
mountains, lakes, and some of the best wildlife reserves in the
world. Traditional music and dance, excellent cuisine, colorful
costumes, hustling towns and cities, quite apart from the
recognized sights, the typical Indian street is teeming with life
and an experience in itself. A veritable living theatre of people
hawking goods, gossiping, begging, haggling, of wandering sacred
cows, of mules and camels, laden with spices, fruit, vegetables
and goods of every description, of overworked rickshaw wallahs
pedaling in the hot sun and over-loaded dusty buses. India is a
total experience, an assault on the senses.
This is a beautiful land full of the exotic enchantment of the
east with a strong religious mystique and enormous natural
resources, but this is only one side of India. It is also a place
of incredible noise and poverty. Of vast population, a large
country with large problems. This powerful sense of contrast
between extravagant luxury and sheer poverty, incredible beauty
and basic ugliness will leave you spinning. But it is the key to
understanding India; India is an amazing land full of
contradiction, colour and energy. It is a land that is seldom
peaceful, rarely private and can often be frustrating. And once
it's in your blood stream you won't get it out. One visit won't be
enough and you'll be back. of that you can be sure.
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