We really enjoyed the India trip and we thought it was amazing. Each place we stayed was completely different and held new experiences, some good and some bad like showering everyday with a bucket of cold ‘clean’ hand pumped water in Jharkhali and trying to sleep through the noise in Kolkata every night. When we arrived in Kolkata many different characteristics of the city became obvious to me on the bus trip from the airport to Lee Memorial and during our explorations on the first day. Our senses were assaulted by new smells and sounds. On the first day Ajeeta, Rory, Chris and us went out into Kolkata city with Sean, Philip and Kate and subsequently got lost and wandered around identical looking streets for roughly 2 hours. The next few days we went on day trips around interesting parts of the city such as The Queen Victoria Memorial and New Market. Kolkata has a lot of negative characteristics such as the widespread poverty, the overcrowding and lack of space, the rubbish all over the streets, the noise pollution, the stray dogs everywhere and the air was dirty and thick with smog which blotted out the sunlight but for me the positives outweighed the negatives. The sprawling street markets, the nice people, the river going through it, the cheap food, the city's very unique and distinctive character and the fact that Ajeeta and I (Fareed) got the nice comfy, springy beds while the other lads suffered on wooden beds.
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