This place was one of the most life changing countries I have ever visited; it was the best and worst places I had visited.
Below are the words I wrote when I returned back to the ship after the trip we had taken:
India was amazing; it was both beautiful and heartrenching at the same time. I am still having a hard to time expressing my feelings and emotions about India. Just like every country we have visited there is a lot of poverty, but it seems India’s poverty is out in the open more. You see these beautiful women where these manificiantlly colored sarees living in a tin building.
I was able to see the poverty more when we rode the trains. For the train, I saw why India smelled the way it did. People used the restroom whereever they pleased. On the way back from Jaipur we rode on sleeper trains, which was another experience on its own. It was basically bunk beds. The cushion was about 2 inches thick.
Using the restroom was an experience all by itself. In most places, the restroom was a hole in the ground, where you just squat and do what you have to do.
The Taj Mahal was breathtaking as I pictured in my head. Pictures don’t even come close to the beauty it is in person. Seeing the Taj was the last thing I thought I would ever see. The beautiful sarees seeemed to be even brighter next to the beautiful white marble.
India was an experience of a lifetime. The world right now is so worried about Africa, a place that does need all the help it can get. I just wish some of the help would go towards India, because there is just as much poverty or maybe more in India. I can’t wait to return to India and lend a helping hand.
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