Doodh Patti

Anne Engedal, 20, a student from Silkeborg, Denmark, leaps into the air as her friends snap her photo. “I prefer to see a place for a longer period of time than just seeing the sights and moving on, because otherwise you don’t get a feel for what’s really going on. It’s really the main kick of traveling for me — that you can meet people in such different circumstances, and really, it’s the same things that make people happy and it’s the same things that you can bond over. I had been in India for about three months doing volunteer work for lower-class children in Rajasthan when this picture was taken, and we had just left the project to go on a monthlong trip. You meet a lot of people in India who have traveled there for a long time, and they say ‘Oh, Taj Mahal, it’s just another tourist attraction, don’t go there, it’s boring.’ So we came with mixed expectations. But when you get there, it’s even more beautiful than you thought. This incredibly big stone structure, it seems so light because it’s white marble. You get the feeling that the person who created this must have been really, really developed and civilized.” As told to Austin Considine