Less old buildings, most still standing

Forty-eight hours ago I was in Phnom Penh, today I saw two camels (or maybe it was the same camel twice), a tomb of a great king of India, monkeys going at it in the street, sunrise over Delhi, I was the subject of countless Indian photos (it's like being a celebrity here, they all want to take their picture with you! I ended up covering my hair after this happened a handful of times and that seemed to lessen their fascination). I saw semi-trucks the size of small ocean liners, at least 16 people stuffed into the Indian version of a tuk-tuk, Cera and I were gently but insistently man-handled by of couple of old Indian women...oh, and I saw the Taj Mahal. No big deal. Last week it was the great temples of Angkor, today it was the Taj. It's a hard life travelling the globe. :) The Taj was just as stunningly beautiful, white, amazing, wondrous and large as everyone says it it. It was also full of Indian tourists. This is the first time I've been to a famous landmark and not been one of countless Caucasians. It was the same at Fort Agra and the Tomb of Akbar; Indian tourists everywhere and only a handful of Caucasians. It was an interesting experience.

I realized today that when I'm seeing 'THE sights' in a country, I don't feel like I'm really experiencing the country. Sure Angkor Wat (Siem Reap) and The Killing Fields, S21 and the Royal Palace (Phnom Penh) and the Taj Mahal (Agra) are all incredible sights to behold, but they're only a fraction of what's really there.