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Published: February 9th 2005
Kolkata is definitely the most modern city we have been to. The British influence is very recognizable. There have been a few brief moments when the surroundings seemed almost American, but an India-only event, like a sheep herd in the city park, brings us back to reality. I found some decent camera stores so I broke down and bought a digital camera. I just couldn't be without one. So now there will be some hopefully highly anticipated pictures on the blog. So far we have visited the Victoria Memorial, the Local art museum, the botanical gardens, and the Kali Temple. The botanical garden hosts one of the largest Banyan trees in the world. The single tree takes up an area of 400 square meters and is over 250 years old. We have also had some of the best food here in Kolkata. This may just be because we lucked up on our choice of restaurants more than in the previous cities. The temperature has also been much warmer than the rest of the north, our sleeping bags are becoming much too warm. We have a couple of more days here and we are going to check out Mother Teresa's foundation tomorrow and see what kind of volunteer work we might could do. Bean also has found an organization in Chennai that will allow us to volunteer for the tsunami relief effort for a short period of time. We are going to buy some toys here in Kolkata before we leave for the orphaned children to play with. By far, our favorite activity here was the cinema. We watched a Hindi film called Tezaab: The acid of love. It was almost as good as late night cinemax movies, minus the nudity. The film was in Hindi with no subtitles but we easily follwed the plot. It was a very overused one: woman cheats on husband -> husband kills the other man ... Needless to say, we probably won't watch another hindi movie, this one was so good that it completely satisfied our Hindi movie hunger.
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