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finest tours I’ve enjoyed anywhere, with a com- streets of the big cities with scooters, auto-
prehensive itinerary, skilled guides, well- rickshaws, busses, trucks and cars forging
orchestrated arrangements, and variety of ex- ahead, horns honking, to wandering cows and
periences to educate and enlighten us during oxen-driven carts in smaller towns, to the
visits to five cities. serenity of the temples, mosques, parks and
India is a mystical and often magical country wildlife sanctuaries. We met wonderful people
with many surprises, assaults to the senses and of faith from different religions (Hindu, Muslim,
contrasts everywhere, from utter chaos in the Sikh). It was enlightening to learn more about

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