Enjoy your trip, Sage.
I spent a week in India and Mongolia and a month in China a couple summers ago.
Be sure to drink lots of tea! China tea tastes better to me but Indian tea is serious quality as well.
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I'll have my IC post up soon, prepare for the ultimate butchering of the English language (It's not my native language per se, though I was born in America)