MY VERY FIRST ENTRY: INDIA...

So, here we go, I will start this thing with a little taste of my recent trip to India, though neither words nor pictures could ever truly do it justice. In the future, I will try to post the entries from the journal I kept while I was there (but let's be honest, who knows if I'll ever actually get around to doing it...)

Ok, here we have a collage of photos (some low quality, cell phone, oops) starting in Calcutta/Kolkata (West Bengal) where I volunteered for one month at Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying and the Destitute (Nirmal Hriday) and as a music teacher at M.E.N.T.A.I.D. (school for mentally handicapped children). Then, with Luz, traveling for about two weeks across Northern India...first Bodhgaya (where Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, reached enlightenment under the Bodhi tree), then Varanasi (sacred Hindu city, on the banks of the Ganges), then on to the Golden Triangle (Delhi with its Red Fort, the Jama Masjid, Qutab Minar; Agra, with, of course, the Taj Mahal; & Jaipur, The Pink City, with its palaces and the Amber Fort--not to mention the elephants and camels!! :) A truly unforgettable journey, filled with too many incredible experiences, and people, to even know where to begin...

Click on the link below to see the photos (then when the page opens just click on "Slideshow"):

https://picasaweb.google.com/106866973565951157311/India2006?authkey=Gv1sRgCP3al8a-4ZTwiQE

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