About India

India is a vast country filled with unimaginable resources and inherent culture with one foot swathed in ancient traditions and the other striding into the entrepreneurial e-age, few countries on earth embrace diversity as passionately as India.

With a population of one billion people and growing, India is as vast as it is crowded and as sublime as it is squalid. The plains are as flat and featureless as the Himalayas are towering and spectacular. The religious text as perplexing as their underlying message is simple and the people as easy-going as they are tenacious.

India, it is often said, is not a country but a continent. From North to South and East to West, the people are different, the languages are different, the customs are different, the country is different. India's landmass is roughly an upside – down triangle with the top formed by the mighty Himalayan mountain chain. Here one can find the intriguing Tibetian influenced region of Ladakh & awesome mountainous areas of Himachal Pradesh, Garhwal, Darjeeling & Sikkim regions. South of this is the flat ganges plain, crossing east from the colourful and comparatively affluent Panjab in the north-west, past the capital city Delhi & tourist attractions such as Agra (with the Taj Mahal), Khajurao, Varanasi and the holy Ganges to the northern part of Bay of Bengal, where you find frenetic Kolkata (Calcutta), which has long been acknowledged as India's cultural capital.

South of this northern plain the Deccan plateau rises. Here one would find cities that mirror the rise and fall of the Hindu & Muslim Kingdoms and the modern metropolis that their successors the British built at Mumbai (Bombay).

Finally there is the steamy South India's Dravidian heartland which is first as extraordinarily diverse in terms of its landscapes, people, arts, traditions and culture as is north India.

India's glorious diversity can make it a veritable quagmire when planning itineraries. If one is interested to see places of worship, there is an astonishing array of sacred sites. If it's history, India is bursting with it. If one wants some time out to simply splash around, there are beaches to satiate the most avid sun worshipper Lovers of the great outdoors have no dearth of scenic walks, which include some of the most beautiful and sequestered Himalayan trekking routes.

India would be exactly what one would make of it, an asult on all the sense, a journey that's impossible to define because its so different for everyone. No matter where one goes, what one does, it's a place one can never forget.

India, since time immemorial has beckoned and welcomed the traveller, intrigued the visitor and often held him in her embrace forever. Many came here never to return and become one with the others in this ancient melting pot of people and many have returned back with India in their hearts. Well, this is what India is, you have to see it to believe it, you have to experience it to have a feel of it.