FIRST WEEK

Hello from India! This is my first post with an update of what's been happening over the last few days I have been here. I have enjoyed Delhis finest public transport, such as the Tuk Tuk, where we encouraged the driver's to race each other to the hotel (nearly crashed a few times). We spent the last few days on small boats going down the Ganges, where we sat listening to music and chilling - the life of Kings! At night we camped by the river banks and enjoyed the peacefulness of untouched India. All food was cooked freshly on board another boat - best Indian food I have ever had! With regards to food - it is totally different to Indian food in England - there is no comparison in taste and look - hence why you have to come to India to have real Indian food. The group is pretty cool - as most people are young but we have the wisdom of older generations aswell. With regards to the people of India, most have been warm and we have been approached a few times by Indians to have photos with them. The funniest story was the BONG MAN - where this small Indian man selling Bongs would not stop following us in Delhi, and when we thought we had lost him, he would appear in front of us saying Bong Bong Bong! He even jumped on the moving Tuk Tuk to secure a sell from us. Well I am now in Varanssi, and have just visited the famous Budhist temple - where we sought enlightment and this is where I will leave you with a saying that I have copied down from this temple: "Those who know the essential to be essential and the unessentuial to be unessential, dwelling the right thoughts, do arrive at the essential"