India, it is often said, is not a country but a continent. From north to South and east to west the people are different, the customs are different, the country is different. There are few countries on earth with the enormous variety that India has to offer and it's a place which somehow gets into your blood. Love it or hate it you can never ignore India. Very briefly, India is a triangle with the top formed by the mighty Himalayan mountain chain. Here you find the intriguing Tibetan Region of Ladakh and the astonishingly beautiful Himalayan areas of kashmir,Himachal Pradesh, the garhwal of Uttaranchal and the Darjeeling and sikkim regions. South of this the flat Ganges basin with the colorful and comparatively affluent Punjab to the north-west, the capital city New Delhi and important tourist attractions like Agra ,Khajuraho, Varanasi and the holy Ganges. This plain reaches the sea at the northern end of the bay of Bengal where you find teeming Calcutta .South of this northern plain the deccan plateau rises. Here you will find cities that tell of the rise and fall of the Hindu and Muslim kingdoms and the modern metropolis that their successors, The British built at Bombay. Basically India is what you make of it and what you want it to be.