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eLmuchacho
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Reged: 01/12/02
Posts: 2845
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Can you stay long with a few grand and low budget and adventurous attitude?
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lbc1980
Grom
Reged: 01/22/10
Posts: 34
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How low budget do you want to go? You've heard it before probably, but India is about extremes. You could stay one day on a few grand, or a few months I bet, depending on your tolerance. I'm not the best judge of low budget in India - I've been 5 times but always with family to stay with family, and after paying a bucketload to get there with a family of 4 we hang around a lot and don't do a lot of moving around, mainly because I have 2 young kids, and mainly because I can't do low budget with them, and since my budget is gone by the time I get there the options are limited. When I got married there in 2000 I moved around the most, and had the most fun (no kids yet).
We took a plane from Bangalore to Managalore and one hour from the airport, stayed on the beach for 5 days in a beach house that used to be a bidi (kind of Indian cigarette) factory, ate fish curry every meal, bodysurfed, met my relatives and I can't remember much else. After 5 days we were going to visit my wife's relatives in Cochin and went by train from Mangalore. We left around midnight I guess on a trip that was supposed to be 6 hours. There was one set of tracks. That's when the journey began. I guess you could say, that's when I saw India for the first time. The journey turned into 15 hours because we had to wait for the oncoming train. It was perhaps one of the most intense journeys of my life. We passed through villages, rice fields; I had never seen such vivid colors. We traveled second class. When my wife was in school she said she traveled third class from Bangalore to Delhi, and everyone was sick with a stomach bug by the time they arrived. Don't do third class. 2nd class was insane, perfect, you met all kinds of people. First class is stuffy I heard, and expensive, and you want nothing to do with rich Indians, unless you can hook up with their daughters. Go to a club for that. Every chick will have black hair. After that, you will never look at a blond the same way. Not ever. That 15 hours I saw more of India than I've seen in the last 4 trips there sitting in cars, now going with the wife's family to shopping malls and all the other terrible modern conveniences that India now has, like international corporations and credit cards. Stay away from all that bullshit. Look up cheap places to stay, don't eat any street food that is not cooked... don't eat anything that is not cooked, unless it's a covered fruit. Well I don't know, INdia has changed a lot, a lot of the water is treated now, but you're on the road, just be careful, don't eat uncooked food, I stand by that. Eat Indian food. Go to South India, I don't know anything about North India, but of course you gotta see the Taj Majal and agra and Jaipur I'm told, but south India, Kerala, it's insane. Drink coconut water from coconut for like, I don't know, under 25 cents. It's true what they say, India will totally change your life and warp you. Get on a train, sit on trains, buses, throw away your watch. Go to Goa. Goa is killer. You might find a wave there. Killer markets, bars, restaurants, clubs, the most insane food. All of India has the most insane food. Tell anyone who tells you not to go to India to fark off, that place is ***** insane, I fall in love with the place when I'm there, but I hate sitting in cars and going to malls, that's not where it's at, stay away from that poop. There is an indian version of starbucks, coffee day or something it's called, it's good, you can even drink the ice (my kids do). India is more than whatever people say, stay as long as you can, go Singapore Airlines, stop on the way in Bali, sell your boards after, stay in India as long as possible, see everything. I remember, on that same trip, we were in the Mumbai airport, the air conditioning was broken. We were on an epic layover. Not sure, maybe we were on our way home. There was this long row of chairs, and we fell asleep, for a long time, and every time I woke up the people next to us were speaking a different language. That is India. I remember my wife told me that when she was a kid, there was a guy who would come by in a cart and cook fried rice. It reminded me of "100 Years of Solitude." It's like that, primitive, still is in so many ways, just stay away from cars and expensive restaurants, in a way they do that stuff really well, as good or better than here, because they really know how to cook, but stay away from that crap if you can, see villages, buses, trains, that stuff. Stay a long time.
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tater
Legend (inyourownmind)
Reged: 04/29/04
Posts: 340
Loc: Closed out
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Yes, no doubt. You will be pissed though by the time you leave because you'll know what you should have been paying for things when you first arrived  I've been lots of places but you will never see poverty like you will there.
One story, I have seen people that would actually beg with a dead baby or toddler in their arms to heighten your sympathy. gnarly.
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airik
Grom
Reged: 04/11/12
Posts: 8
Loc: San Francisco, CA
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Been there twice...no other place like India. It will assault ALL your senses; GO! I'd recommend spending more time outside of the big cities, you'll get a better sense of the beauty the country has to offer and it will be cheaper/more adventurous.
I assume you'll be wanting to stick to the coast to surf, but if you get inland and go up north. Darjeeling is up on the boarder of Nepal in the tea country and is a unique special spot offering views of mt. everest.
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