We started our journey from the city that never sleeps a.k. a Mumbai. Our first day turned to be very hectic, and we walked almost 10 km the same day itself. But the Marathi cuisine was so delicious that it refilled all the energy we had lost. From there we went to Pune and saw the beautiful forts it had hidden inside its massive modern architecture. From there we went on to explore the small but architecturally significant city, Solapur. We then entered south India via two cities, the first Alleppey, where we met the world’s largest single mural painting and its exclusive backwaters which were a must visit. We then left south India via Chennai, where a temple was built to respect the poet and was wholly dedicated to him. We then went to Hyderabad to discover the brilliantly constructed an acoustic system of the Golconda fort. The trip to Bhubaneswar from Hyderabad was the longest in our whole trip, but we had quite a lot of fun during that time. From there we went to Konark and puri to see the very soul of these cities, the sun temple, and the Jagannath temple respectively. From here we were now going to enter the north-east part of India, this was the best part of our trip, but was also quite expensive on the pocket aspect of the fellowship. Along the way, we also met another explorer fellowship group MiaSanMia and had many remarkable experiences with them. From here we went on to discover the archeological talents exhibited by states such as, in Bihar we went to Bodh Gaya, in Madhya Pradesh we visited Khajuraho. Our experiences in Agra and Delhi were exciting but in equal amount exhaustive as well mainly because of the high temperature present in those cities then. We ended our journey in the pink city of India a.k. A Jaipur. This city was met with some less amount of excitement because this was the last part of our whole trip. Neither of us had traveled this long, so this was a different type of experience. We faced several difficulties, such as shortage of money, lack of vegetarian food in some cities, pollution in the big metro cities. All the three of us felt homesickness after nearly ¾ of the journey; this made the last part of our trip challenging to suffice. But overall this was an eye-opening experience, especially for us who were not used to such a lifestyle (we hardly traveled in sleeper class, overcrowded buses, train, etc.)
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