Hmm, what to say about India? Did we like it? Yes. Did we hate it? Yes. Sometimes both in the same day. Did we love it? No. We can both honestly say that, while we may not have thoroughly enjoyed all of our time in India, we are both glad to have gone and experienced it. We both agree that there is no desire to ever return either.

India is a crazy place, like a whole planet wholly unto itself, completely separate from any other place in the world. The food, the people, the sites can all be good or bad depending on the how many times you blink within a moment. It’s beautiful, it’s wretchedly hideous, it’s humane, it’s the cruelest place on Earth. It’s a thousand things all at one: confounding, irritating, exciting, amazing, terrible, hypocritical, sensitive and so much more. It is quite possibly the most complicated place in the world.

(Check out the huge India photo gallery here)

Favorite moments:

• South indian food
• The pace of life in Goa
• Jaisalmer
• Riding camels
• Camping beneath the stars in the desert
• Seeing the mouth of the Ganges
• Celebrating Diwali
• Not dying
• Kerala’s backwaters in a quiet canoe

Not so great:

• The people (there are exceptions of course, but we’re talking generally here)
• Being pointed at, stared at, laughed at, photographed against our will, being groped, being shouted at by random people in the street
• Getting deathly ill
• Delhi
• Massive amounts of shit (literally) and trash that seem to cover every square meter of the country

Total Money Spent Per Person: $865.72

Average Per Day Costs Per Person:

• Lodging: $2.66
• Food: $3.12
• Transportation: $1.80
• Misc: $2.49 (Beer, going out, guides, park entrance, etc.)

Total Average Per Day, Per Person: $10.07

Number of Days:86