Thread: India...

Benares/Varanasi is well worth a visit.

Ghats on the Ganges in the early AM

really can't compare it to anything!!!

I'll post some of my India pics here for

your viewing pleasure when I get a chance..

Nothing amazing, I think Chris' has the

real India photography cover'd... I had a

good but too short trip there in 2004 or 5.

I think Bodh Gaya is also a destination. more

flights heading in their now from Buddhist

countries like LOS- for 'pilgrimage' type holidays...
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You can say hi to the top-knotted sadhu from nebraska
who has been sitting there for 7 or 8 years now i believe
he's quite chatty for someone in a deep state of concentrative
bliss...especially with the ladies...

Good Luck unwell. I have enough problems dealing with Thai's, I could not imagine dealing with Indians on a continual basis. My opinion alone. To visit yes, but I am too old for the hard travelling of India.

good luck.

Originally Posted by aging one

Good Luck unwell. I have enough problems dealing with Thai's, I could not imagine dealing with Indians on a continual basis. My opinion alone. To visit yes, but I am too old for the hard travelling of India.
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Dude, it ain't that hard, I did a month by bus and train, ate good food, three beers a night, a nice room with fan and bathroom, all the sights and pressies, and I still only spent about 500 bux.

IMHO, if you can do Laos or Cambodia, then you can do India..it's just massiver is all.
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Have a boss time unW.

Well 25+ years ago I found Sri Lanka to be hard travelling. Was told to forget India if I though Sri Lanka was hard. I just cant stand millions of people around me. Its me its not the country.

Rajastan is awesome and not to crowded AO. I've heard Sri Lankans are a bit rougher than Indians too. I just rekon there's something there for everyone man.

Originally Posted by aging one

Well 25+ years ago I found Sri Lanka to be hard travelling. Was told to forget India if I though Sri Lanka was hard. I just cant stand millions of people around me. Its me its not the country.

Ain't nothin' wrong with that. I went to India after about 11 months in Lanka, by which time I'd pretty much mastered the basics of being there and gotten comfortable- went north knowing it'd be much more. I made it through fine but it was a bit shocking- just how much more. Steeper learning curve there, for sure. And the people! Everywhere! All the time! Something in the air, even when you get away from the people. It's as if there were a some kind of bio-dome around the country- no air gets in or out - everytime you breathe in: that's Indian air. Those are Indian smells. This is India, nowhere else baby. Deal with it.
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Originally Posted by Matthew

Deal with it.

Or dont thats the beauty of freedom.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Unwell....Hey, glad this may be underway.

I spent my time pretty well in the North. Didn't get south of Rajastan. But let me address these things

1. Kolkatta......This place has a spirit unique. I would say on the planet. There's something very unique about the Bengali culture here. Many places to see. Stay in the Sutter street area if you get there. It will be a nice experience.

2. I'd try to get to Darjeeling.....A town way up in the foothills of the Himalyas. And yet looks in places like a quaint Scottish town. Very interesting folk there. (Expats)

3. The Chula Valley.....There's a valley in there where the country is rough and beautiful. You're probably not interested in such things , but this is ganja central. Everything is cheap and just lots of people from the west who settled over there in the sixties, and remain still. (see Shimla, Mandi, Manali). Incidentally, if I go back, which is likely, this is where I would hang my hat.

4. I'd visit Dharamsala (Mcleod Ganj), home of the Dalai Lama. This is a very interesting place. You could spend a lifetime there. Magic...Tibetan energy very strong here.

5. Visit Rajastan.....just way to many places to mention here. You want desert, check it out. And absoltuley don't leave this state without at least trying their famous "milkshakes" at least once. I'd miss Dephi, old and new. Nightmare. But that's a personal experience perhaps. In any case, if you travel in the north, inevitably you are going to end up there.

I got a six month visa pretty easily from Korea. That was with a Canadian passport. About sixty US. Thirty five pounds to you.

I met people who had been there for years, literally. Without having to leave. Compared to Thailand, pretty striaghtforward.

I do hope you make it there . Way to many places to mention. You'll love Goa.

India rocks.

(Jees , you've got me thinking now)

Wow Russell, I'm just a flyin' reading about it!

Mujibar was trying to get a job in India.

The Personnel Manager said, "Mujibar, you have
passed all the tests, except one. Unless you pass
it you cannot qualify for this job."

Mujibar said, "I am ready."

The manager said, "Make a sentence using the
words Yellow, Pink and Green."

Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said,
"Mister manager, I am ready."

The manager said, "Go ahead."

Mujibar said, "The telephone goes green, green,
and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.'"

Mujibar now works as a technician at a call
center for computer problems.

No doubt you have spoken to him.

WTF? Unners, I thought you were going back 'home'?

Fair play duder. I want to visit India, but without the poo issue.

does the poo issue bothet you?
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WTF? Unners, I thought you were going back 'home'?

Fair play duder. I want to visit India, but without the poo issue.

Does the poo issue bother you?

Originally Posted by Nickyboy

I thought you were going back 'home'?

so did i mate, seems it doesn't want me right now...mai pen rai...