Search India!!! After Australia Rich and I headed to India for a month of backpacking. Thought it would be good to do something totally different to snowboarding for a change. Here is what we got up to.... We arrived in the city of Chennai, which is a pretty bad city even by indian standards. We had to walk to the train station the first day to book our train tickets, and it was honestly the most terrifying experience of my life!! Going from the the peaceful mountains straight into the centre of an indian city was the biggest culture shock ever. I think unless you have gone to India its hard to describe what its like, but it is INTENSE, cars, cows, rickshaws, bikes, no rules on the road, (people walk on the road like cars as the pavement is for the homeless) horns, heat, poverty, people grabbing at you, staring, a million men, rubbish EVERYWHERE, dirt, dust and just soooo many people. No westerners AT ALL! Thailand is peaceful in comparison!! I nearly broke Rich's hand on the walk as I was squeezing it so tight ( even tho you're not actually supposed to show any public affection!). But this is what I had wanted, I wanted to have a totally different experience! And we def got that! We made it! back from the train station in one peice, and and the next day we went on our first sleeper train, 16 hours over to Kerela. Sleeper trains are