India - The Land of the Rupees

Our Asia experience was enhance by adding India to the mixture. We don't think that the trip would have been complete without India, amazing on so many levels. You'll notice below we have more pictures than usual. The reason for this is we did more cities than usual, especially in the short amount of time we had. 15 cities and 3100 kilometers in five in a half weeks, thats fast movin'!

Also since this is the last blog for quite some time we thought that we would let the pictures do all the writing for us. :)

Mysore Palace

Bandipur National Park
Side Note: Hunting of any animal in India is illegal.







Picture was taken as our driver was reversing down the trail trying to escape the pissed off 15 foot elephant who was making a B-line for the truck. If you look closely in the bottom right corner you can see the outline of the top of her head.








This is a very funny and ironic sign, not just because it tells you where the correct placement of poop and pea goes but because no one cares and does it anywhere anyways(men and women).


Our host in Bangalore, MusH Jamal. Does he look familiar to anyone from Cal Poly, he went there once. Yes, we were locked out after 5 days. Apparently you use the helmet on your head, who knew.

Cochin


Jayanthan transformation...


















Backwaters near Allepey.




Kanyakmari - the most southern point of India. Also the place where the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea converge.




Mamallapuram
















Varanasi








Our karma candle lady.










Agra




















Jaipur - The Pink City













Jodhpur - The Blue City







Emma and I were asked by the mother and father of this child if we would like to have it. After a couple minutes of deliberating, we decided no.











So on August 21st we departed for Lexington Park, Maryland from Delhi. The last leg of our trip will be exploring the great country we left September 7th of last year. We look forward to the camping, the cooking and the hiking!

Mmm hamburgers, Cali. save us a burrito!

ET