I posted this video on my Youtube account 4 days ago. It shows the first few days of our India experience, but in all honesty, it is quite misleading in a number of ways. Firstly, this is not an accurate representation of my experience, and secondly, India is nothing like this. The truth is that it is home to some of the most terrible, destitute poverty on the planet, and it’s not fun seeing that. I think that many people want to like India, including me, but it’s just not realistic to say India is a great place for travel and fun. You will see the craziest and most awful things in your life. You will be unable to say whether some people are alive or dead, and the mountains of trash climb sometimes as high as the second floor. Human feces litter the streets and you know that the people who live there have no hope and no chance. It is depressing and gross in many ways. That being said, we only visited a small section of Northern India, and there were many things I really loved about the trip. For example, the food was absolutely splendid and the monuments really were beautiful. It is simply wrong that (at least Northern India) is a good place to take a family (as our guide book says). It is overall so sad to see so much suffering around you at all times. And even apart from that, most places you look, smog is floating and mounds of trash are blowing in the wind. It is just impossible to enjoy yourself and even help many people.

In conclusion, there were many things that I absolutely loved about India, but I felt like I needed to be honest about our experience and what I really think about traveling there. I believe that many people have sugar-coated it to an inappropriate extent and I really just needed some content for a video. Never the less, enjoy!

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