10/15/09 1st Full Day in Kolkata, India The second we stepped out of our guesthouse we immediately ran into our four friends from the plane...I'm thinking fate or karma - either way it worked out perfectly since Anna and I had no clue how backpacking or India in general worked. We made our way along crappy narrow roads complete with mass amounts of exhaust (constantly being emitted by the mass of honking traffic), begging mothers and children (usually you can tell the scams from a mile away so the feeling of guilt really isn't as bad as you may think), garbage abound, skinny mangey dogs, rickshaws, and streams of green or brown water (yum). All in all we are excited to be in India! We had breakfast and headed off to walk to the Victoria Memorial
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