The place I'd like to visit

I have never been abroad, but I have always dreamed to travel to a new continent. Specially, I imagine myself going to Europe, because there are so many countries that are interesting, also because of the historical places, and I think it has to be a quite different culture. Speaking of culture, I believe that I really want to know a whole different culture, something that escapes from western influence or almost in some way… because you know this culture is globalized.

For that reason, the place I’d like to visit is located in Asia, and it’s actually India. The truth is that I don’t know very much about it and our teacher has helped me a little in that way, but it interests me principally because of its typical music and for its religious festivals, or its religion as such. I think they are quite interesting and exciting. I know something of its music because I usually listen a lot of Ravi Shankar compositions, who is a known Indian musician that get famous on the sixties. He used to play the sitar and his compositions are called “ragas”. His music makes me calm and relax a lot. 

Also there is an interesting religious festival called Holi. Did you know that the traders have taken it to Chile as a commercial festival? It actually will be really soon, I don’t know exactly when. Well… I think I’d like to know the real festival. 

Oh, and I forgot to say that I would really like to know the Himalayas !!

Other thing I’d like to do would be eat its typical food. I’m vegetarian, so I’m a little limited in that way. But I have known that there are many vegetarians there, so I think I’m not so limited.

I think I wouldn’t like to work, study or live right there because I don’t speak the same language, and I think it’s a big difficulty to do anything. Also I don’t know which job I could get there. Maybe I’m a little afraid of these things because of my ignorance, but if I like the place, I would think it twice.