Here's a shot from the train of the Rajasthan desert countryside that I enjoyed seeing.
I'm finally starting to recover from whatever sickness I caught a few days ago. I'm really tired though, as the sickness took a lot of energy out of me. I holed up in Delhi for two days trying to recover. I did get out for enough time yesterday to tour the Red Fort in the heart of Old Delhi. It gave quite an amazing impression of the power that the Mughal emperors commanded.
Tomorrow I will catch a morning bus to Rishikesh, a small town on the Ganges river in the foothills of the Himalayas. I expect it to be crowded with tourists from both India and abroad, but I've been in the crowded madness of the cities so long that anything else will be a welcome relief. I'm excited to jump in the clear cold waters of the Ganges, for at this stage the famous holy river is more of a mountain stream than the wide muddy grave that it becomes on its journey south and east.
Rishikesh will probably be my last spot to visit in India, as I will fly to Istanbul on the fifteenth. I've learned an incredible amount in my two months here, yet I'm amazed at how much mystery is left.
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