Subject: Post: <p>Arrived to Helsinki, which looks surprisingly sunny and warm today. Now just the bus to Turku... I did find the Burger King at Zurich airport by the way. 15.60€ for a Double Whopper meal, but it sure was tasting worth the price. Especially with extra bacon. :P</p><p>What was left from these two weeks? Well, when departing I was not sure that I even wanted to go. Most of the friends who had visited India did not like it, and described it more as a landfill where everybody just wants your money.</p><p>Now after these two weeks I can say that a part of that is true. The cities are dirty, big part of the population is extremely poor, hygiene level is far from Western standard or actually from any standard. But you get used to it in a couple of days.</p><p>And the taxi drivers, salesmen and so on are extremely annoying, restlessly insisting that you use their services. Random beggers not so much. However, ignoring the taxi drivers etc, almost everybody else we met was extremely friendly and welcoming, going far from their path to help us.</p><p>Special thanks go to Serai Tiger Camp owner who made our first days in India so special and easy, spending his time with us and doing everything to make our stay comfortable. He was not the only one though, not at all.</p><p>Many times I was losing my nerves due to the massive difference between Indian and Finnish personalities. We Finns like to maintain our personal space and silence, and even on a bus stop stand a couple of meters from each other. Indians seem to like to pile up with each other, do not have any concept of proper queueing and for example waiting first for passengers to exit a train is completely impossible before rushing in. That's just a cultural difference though, not a big problem.</p><p>Every region we visited was totally different from the others, in any matter. And all of them had a lot of beautiful places and things. Too bad in two weeks we only could visit a couple of main regions of the country, leaving a lot for the next time.</p><p>And yes, the next time will definitely come, sooner or later. India did not climb to the top of the list of my favourite countries, I still love Latin America much more, but.. It did climb pretty high, and I want to see the rest of the regions too. Himalayas, South India, the islands and their diving waters and so on.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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