Kolkata, India

We took our flight to India, and it was good. 24 Hours later, we have experienced so much (such is India-the opposite of Laos). For starters...Urinals are anywhere you please (for men, but a toilet is impossible for a women to find), we participated in a protest march (we don't know for what), we've seen 2 goats sacrificed to appease the blood lust of the Hindu goddess Kali (she apparently requires that 50 get beheaded everyday), got tikka's (the Hindu forehead paint), took pictures of Sadhus, or Hindu ascetics (one with an exposed pierced penis with a chain attached and slung over his shoulder), walked around barefoot in the grossest place imaginable (we had to-it was a temple), experienced bus rides and the much less daunting human-powered rickshaw, saw a kid pooping in the street, walked around the world's largest Banyan tree (it's 450 meters in circumference, and 48,800 square meters in area), saw cows in the city and played our first cricket game. This does not count the monuments, markets, and other things we actually PLANNED to see. So many more days to come; so much more to see.