Today didn't go exactly as planned, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good day. After waking up and having breakfast, we hit the road to head to Jaipur. It's about a 6 hour drive, but we made a stop in Fatehpur Sikri to see the home of Akbar. grandfather of the builder of the Taj Mahal. It was huge, and the guy had 4 wives, each of whom he built a separate house/palace sector for. His Hindu wife is the one who bore his only son (the Taj's creator's father) so he...

Agra is an adventure! After eating breakfast and freshening up, we headed out at 1000 to see the Taj Mahal. It is so much more than I expected! Monuments, for me at least, tend to be a bit of a let down. You get to see the wonderful building/monument/whatever, take your tacky tourist picture in front of it, and then when you proceed up to the actual monument there isn't much to see. I feel culturally ignorant saying this, because there is a beautiful love story...

This travel day was an interesting one. We left the hotel shortly after 0330, heading to the train station. We took one bus in shifts since it can hold 40 people. Well, they were planning on us having so much luggage, so some people had to bring it on the bus with them, meaning people couldn't sit and we needed to take 3 trips. Why we didn't just have multiple busses take one trip I don't know, because the 3rd bus hardly made it. Luckily I was the first one so I...

Today is our last day and the feelz are hitting everyone hard. Getting up this morning was interesting. After leaving skybar I went back with Amy to her room so she could look for her phone or some other silly reason that prevented me (gave me an excuse) from going to my own room, and in true Carla fashion I sat down on the bed to wait while she looked and promptly passed out. Neither her nor her roommate could wake me up so they just let me sleep (typical). I j...

Today is our second to last day in Hyderabad! It's starting to become bitter sweet. Congress is drawing to and end and I'm leaving most of the American friends I've made, but we're also about to start the Post Congress Tour and most of the international friends I've made are going. Although I was exhausted, I woke up for a morning workshop on what I thought was local Indian herbal medicine. And again, my research of the activity was wrong and I was slightly disa...