Pigeons running riot in the Red Fort, Delhi.



Guys praying at the spot where Gandhi was cremated.



This is Jama Masjid, Delhi, the largest mosque in India. You had to go in in your bare feet and the ground was scorching hot. There were matts in paths around the mosque, but to get this photo I had to go off the matt onto the stone and I burnt my feet. I hope it was worth it.



This is a squirrel in the grounds of the Red Fort. Hope you like it, Emma.

We spent ten days in India.

We spent the first two days seeing different sights in Delhi. The first day we saw the Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Rajghat (where Gandhi was cremated), the National Museum and Humayun's Tomb, which is a picturesque building housing the tomb of Humayum (naturally enough) and it was built by the same chap as built the Taj Mahal. I forget his name but your on the internet so you can look it up. The second day we went to the Lotus Temple, which is a prayer room for all faiths, and the Akshardham Monument which is a monument to some religious guy. There were sculptures of elephants all around the base of the monument signifying elephants and nature, elephants and man and elephants and the divine. There were stories from ancient Indian folklore to go along with some of the sculptures. It's a pretty cool building and afterwards me and Steven spoke to a young American monk about our thoughts on the place. Wק רקאורמקג איקרק איק כםךךם'ןמע 'קקל אם דקק ש פרקאאט ןצפרקדדןהק Mודןבשך F. םומאשןמ דים'ץ Whoopsת איקרק,ד דםצק יקנרק'

Whoops, there's some Hebrew. We returned to Akshardham the following week to see a pretty impressive musical fountain show which depicted the beginning of the world according to Hinduism. Unfortunately we went on the night it was narrated in Hindi (it's in English on alternate nights), but it was still visually stunning and the music was cool.

On the third day we drove for five hours to see the Taj Mahal. It was cool to see and very photogenic, but at the end of the day it's just a big building.

That night we stayed in Agra, where the Taj Mahal is, and the following day we went to Keoladeo national park which is a bird sanctuary. This was great and I got some cool photos.

We then drove on to Jaipur and got a hotel for the night. The next day we saw some of the sights of Jaipur, the City Palace, Hawa Mahal (which means temple of winds) and Nahargarh, a fort with a great view of Jaipur.

Hawa Mahal was a place where women could come and view different parts of the city at a
time when they were expected to stay out of sight at certain times.

The next day we went to Jantar Mantar which is an observatory which boasts the largest sundial in the world, which is accurate to two seconds. We got a guide and he showed us how to calculate the time, and then would say the time, we looked at our watches and lo and behold, it was right.

The last couple of days we didn't do much, just a bit of shopping and relaxation. It was my birthday on the Tuesday and we were in Pizza Hut and the staff all sang an embarrassing song about celebrating with pizza, or something. The also made me stand up and announce my name and that it was my birthday.

We were all glad to fly out of India on the 14th of September.