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Mother India

India is nothing short of a sensory assult, its vibrancy unmatched by anywhere on earth. Beyond its jostling cities, lie beach paradises and primary forests, weeping desert plains, broken by fairytale princely forts and green, tea-drenched foothills. A lifetime is not long enought to know India. The far north has Tibetain Buddhist monastries hewn from jagged Himalayan cliffs, where prayer flags flutter in the thin air of the world's highest mountain peaks. The south responds with riotous Hindu temples, candy-pop confections crammed with gaudy gods, accompanied by dancing painted elephants and bugle -playing Brahmins. In between lie the Muslim mausoleums, mosques of vast proportions, spraling Sikh temple complexes plated with gold and everywhere lie the ruins of dynasties long spend..