Preliminary brotherly advice on India
According to my brother, who just came from India, when visiting the country, it is too easy to measure time in western time units, and that creates problems to your original visit schedule. Everything apparently takes much longer, and people are generally much more relaxed than our fixated deadline-oriented lives. As a result, the advice is to concentrate the visit to within a single region.
Other useful notes on the place is that it is full of spiritually-oriented people, which I suppose it ranges between the harmless sejour in an Ayurvedic Centre or Yoga practicioners, and the plain loonie.(loony?). Further, that it is cheap by all western standards, and that it is advisable to avoid street food stalls that look dodgy, which is quite logical.
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Matter of fact observation and advice indeed.
I am an Indian and have had chance to visit a number of countries. I am greatly amused at the way we Indians behave and conduct ourselves, especially when within India.
So as to help small budget travelers to India, I have started a small blog, indiaadvice.blogspot.com
I intend to offer free, genuine advice to travelers to India so that they experience the rich cultural and natural diversity of the sub-continent and do not go back with bad memories of any kind.
Hi Blogger,
I will be visiting your country end/sep for a couple of weeks (hopefull the monsoon would have finished by then), and will try to see some Diwali (did I write that correctly) celebrations, and post interesting comments and photographs.
I intend to see Kerala, and if I have time, the classic New Delhi, Agra and Taj Mahal triangle. We'll see.
I will look into your blog shortly, but I welcome tips and advice of any kind about India.
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