Hubby and I always follow a very simple trip planning rule: start off with a bang. I thought all of India counted as the bang so I didn’t pay much attention to what came in which order on our itinerary but, in retrospect, our bang came at the end: Varanasi. We loved the Taj Mahal...
India is overwhelming and utterly defined by its contrasts. So much of my experience of the country and people can only be recounted in dualities. It is luminously beautiful, garrish-ly rich and totally accessible. It is darkly dirty, impossibly poor and so much lives unsaid and unexplained to a foreigner’s eye. Unlike any other country...
