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(Dana) 70% of the population of India lives in villages and towns. That is 900 million people living outside the cities. We are sitting in our bus passing countless villages along the way. Images fly by. Each seems like a National Geographic photo waiting to be taken. But if we stop each time, we’ll never […]

(Emma) As we pull in I hear the horn playing. Six elephants are lined up with their attire on and painted very nicely. A man in a colorful turban sits on top to direct the elephant (to keep us from failing miserably). I get out with my camera in hand. First, we feed the elephants […]

(Dana)  Sometimes expectations are so high that reality never reaches them.  How many times in life have I been disappointed by the “must-see” or “must do?”  On this journey, there have been a few destinations with the potential for disappointment.  After all, could the pyramids or Machu Picchu or yesterday’s destination – the Taj Mahal […]

The INDIAD (This the verse in which a wayward merchant from Londontown and his family find our Six Explorers in deepest Rajasthan) In Udaipur, where lakes abound But dry’s the river bank At a Maharana’s home we found The wandering famille Blanc One palace floats in the middle of a lake, Glimmering despite 500 years decay […]

(Andrew) I was looking forward to Holi since Antarctica. Now it has come and gone. Not without leaving behind a splash of color in our lives. According to one legend, Holi originated when the Hindu love and music god, Krishna, showed his affection to women tending their cows by throwing colored water at them. Holi […]

(Alex) Yesterday, I found my new favorite holiday — Holi. Holi is the Indian colors festival which happens every year on the day after the full moon in March, this year, it fell on March 20th. Holi is a social holiday, where friends get together, drink and catch up while throwing their gulal (colored powder) […]

(Reis) There are many things that people need to see to believe are actually real and existing. For instance, a friend buys a new house, and he show you a picture of it. You can’t really comprehend it until you visit it in person and see it with your own eyes. Same with the Indian […]

(Dana) No way.  I can’t imagine.  Subjugates women.  Not for me.  These are just some of the thoughts that I – and probably most of my female friends – would have voiced about arranged marriages.  But spending time in the villages of India has given me an appreciation of why 99% of marriages in this […]

(Greg) A tigress and her two cubs wait, thirsty, to cross a road inside a reserve while local pilgrims trek to and from a temple inside that same reserve. The tigress and her cubs are forced to wait, getting thirstier and more desperate. At dusk, 6 rambunctious, drunk young men coming rolling down the mountain […]

(Dana) Sometimes on this adventure, we get lucky… lucky to be in the right place at the right time. March 2nd is the annual puja (ceremony), celebrating the wedding of Lord Shiva at the Jageshwar Temple in the Himalayan hills. Arriving in Jageshwar, a town of maybe a hundred families, we are quickly swept into […]