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=**DIARY ENTRY 1**=

Well I have just arrived in India for my 5 day adventure! When the plane landed in New Delhi, I was amazed at the number of people surrounding me! I've been told that New Delhi is one of the wealthiest regions in India, and the population of the entire country is currently is 1,129,866,154 people (Thats over 1.1 billion!). What a huge amount of people to be living (relative to) in such a small space. Apparently India's population accounts for 1/6th of the worlds entire population, amazing! This was definitely my first culture shock when arriving here from Australia, which is so open and with a population of a mere 21 million people.

Whilst being transported from the airport to our hotel, I noticed the second culture difference. I couldn't help but notice the diversity of cultures and ethnic groups surrounding me. I asked one of the people at the information desk what the percentages of different ethnic groups were and I was told that the Indo-Aryan ethnic group stood for 72% of the population, the Dravidian ethnic group was 25%, and Mongoloid and other groups were only 3%. With more than 2000 different groups within these percentages however, it's not surprising how many people do live here!

It's evening now, and tomorrow I have a day jam-packed with sightseeing, so I'll be heading off now. I'll make sure that I write in here tomorrow all the new and exciting things that I will find out about India and it's people. Here is a picture that i picked up from the Information Desk =]