India

Everyone told me: you will either hate or love this country.  It's a country full of different aspects.

South India was similar to Sri Lanka. Green, nice beaches,  tea plantages,  colors,  spices and a lot of textiles. People were nice and it seems that they are not that poor.

Also Goa was very enjoyable. You can easily get lost in Goa.  Just live day by day. Sun, beach and party. Great time. =)

North India was quite a culture shock. Everthing really dirty, trash everywhere,  cows in the street and eating the trash. A lot of poor people are asking for money and are sleeping on the street or in their hut. Men pee around in public and spit like world champions. Therefore in the town very smelly. There is so much noise everywhere,  that you are feeling so exhausted and so dirty after coming back to the hotel.

But sure there is also another part: bright colours, interesting belivings; very strong belivings. Different culture and behaviour.
We travelled for sure over 100 hours by train through whole India. The people in general are nice, but everyone is taking pictures of you, even without asking. In the Bus, on the street, at the beach. I really don't care about making pictures of me and I am happy to pose for them, but on the beach it's really annoying.  I even could not go swimming alone, because everybody was taking sneaky pictures. We did not have every day the patience for them. But sometimes it was funny. In Mumbai Steffi and I were asked for a photo by one guy. In the end there where crowds of people around us and everyone asked for pictures.

I am so pleased to be in Pokhara currently. After a 12 hour journey in a local bus over the congested, dusty and dirty towns to the border of Nepal we are happy to enjoy ourself now in the Himalaya Mountains.  Here everthing is so clean and quiet - like home :*