My trip to India was noisy, smelly, spicy, chaotic, exciting, challenging, different, smoggy, dirty, dusty, religious and above all a lot of fun.

I was fully expecting to see cows everywhere, but what surprised me was to see cows eating plastic, rubbish and the like. Most cows are owned by a family, who milk them in the morning and them the cows are free to roam for the rest of the day, until they return home (this in it's self is quite a interesting thing to watch). The cows spend there days, sitting in the middle of the road, walking up to and investigating whatever takes their fancy and going through the piles of rubbish which are everywhere. So it's quite amazing some to the things you see cows eating.

It's not just cows that you see everywhere. Life in India is pretty good for animals, as it is good karma to treat them well. The cities are full of dogs, goats, pigs and evening monkeys (monkeys not so much in Delhi) going about their business in piece.

The monkeys were one of the highlights. There are two types of monkeys in Indian and they are a lot of fun to watch. In particular, the monkey temple we visited was not only fun because of all the monkeys, but the temple itself was one of the better ones I saw.

Talking of temples. They are everywhere and you quickly get templed out. Having said I did see some really interesting temples. The following temples were stand outs:

* Bhandasar Temple (a Jain Temple in Bikaner) - probably my favourite Jain Temple.
* Karni Mata Temple ('Rat' Temple) - not so much impressive for the temple, but worth seeing because of the rats.

* ____________ (Monkey Temple) - from the outside it didn't look much, but the temple was great and the monkeys were a lot of fun.

* Gurdwara Bangla Sahib (Sheik Temple in Delhi) - completely different to anything else I saw and was an amazing experience.

Indian's love their cricket. It was weird (but fun) being in India while India was playing Australia in the boxing day test. I was really surprised to see them showing live games between other nations, such as South Africa V New Zealand. What was evening more surprising was that you could even catch Australian Domestic Cricket on TV. As a result of the recent issues between the Australian and Indian Cricket teams I found out that India accounts for about 70% of the global cricket revenue. This helps explain all the cricket on TV.