India

India was fascinating on so many levels. For a nation whose holy men and women are renown for meditation and sitting in silence, its people are on the move everywhere. The crush of humanity that seems so natural to them would be shocking for westerners used to privacy and “personal space.” People are jammed shoulder to shoulder, and there is sometimes little space to move through the crowds of young, old, cars, carts, and cows.

A nation exporting its hi-tech coders and engineers, it is simultaneously one whose history is alive and present in the streets, in the faces of its shepherds, its craftsmen, its mystics.