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Welp, that's it for the India portion of the blog. There were some moments of great frustration, but overall it was a great five months....

In the first pic, I am wearing the traditional outfit of the women in a certain rural community outside of Jodhpur. I tried this on during o...

We took many trains during our Rajasthani trip. Some cars were so intensely crowded that we actually saw a man accidentally fall out and ban...

You often see bad English written on signs here and there. That’s fine, especially since I’m not sure my written German is much better! Any...

Hippie town! A lot of Westerners live in this small town. They look like what one may term as “hippies.” Yeah, you know what I mean. Getting...

This is Jaipur, the pink city. It is the loudest and craziest of the cities we visited in Rajasthan. There is also so much dust in the air t...

Many babies, like the one in this first pic, have their eyes rimmed in black eyeliner. I was told this is solely for beauty reasons. Also,...

Even though opium is officially illegal in India, the government allows some people to keep a little opium because it has become a part of ...

While on the rural trip, we saw people and the art they create. In the first three photos, you can see people who make clay pots, weave carp...

We took a daytrip to the rural communities outside Jodhpur. In these tiny villages, there is rarely any running water or electricity. At tim...

These are some of the ways the high and mighty residents of the fort used to travel in the past. Looking cool and elegant.

This fort is so cool. But getting there isn’t. It sits high above Jodhpur. In the hot mid-afternoon desert heat, we walked all the way up st...

This omelet shop, in the center of Jodhpur, is famous and mentioned in a lot of guidebooks (the owner of the shop is standing underneath the...

We spent a ridiculous amount of time sitting on the floor of this bracelet shop. . Our bracelets, made out of gum resin and formed over hot ...

When it comes to animals, this is hands-down India. Rarely will a day go by that you won’t see a cow or, more especially, a dog regardless o...