Physical geography India is huge; the 7th largest country in the world. I was planning to travel around by bus, but I spent 8 hours squashed into a seat with 2 women, a goat and 3 chickens, and only covered a tiny distance on the map. I gave up on the buses at this point and decided to get planes whenever I could. I've always thought of India as a hot place, and most of it is, but I spent a few days in the Himalaya and wished I'd taken my thermal vest. The mountains are in the north at the borders with China, and they are the tallest in the world. After this I needed a few days to recover and so flew down to Goa beach on the Indian Ocean. On the way I baked in the deserts of Rajasthan and got soaked in the highlands of Assam, the wettest place on earth. There are three basic seasons in India: hot, wet and cool. It rains a lot between June and September, and I saw some places in Orissa that had been flooded in the Monsoon. But then I also saw places where the rains had failed to arrive and people were struggling with drought. How hot, wet and cool you get really depends on where you live. There is a lot of great wildlife in India including lions, tigers, leopards, panthers, shaggy sloth bears, elephants, rhinoceroses and all sorts of snakes and lizards. Unfortunately some of these were killed by British hunters and others died when many of the forests were destroyed.