Ten Random Thoughts On My Travels In India
Feb 1st, 2009 |
A Journey Into WD’s Wandering Mind:
- You never forget your first view of the Taj Mahal.
- One word : Chai. Drink it, drink lots of it. “Chai” means “tea”, so when I order a “Chai Tea” at Starbucks, what am I really ordering?
- I got used to dodging cows on the street and people staring at me on the bus.
- I never got used to people doing their business on the street, and hopefully I was not the one staring.
- Trains make good blog entries but not timely travel tools.
- Remember what I told you about toilet paper? Carry It. Some hotels will charge you for it!
- Ditto for hand sanitizer. Indian bathrooms will test your sanitation tolerance. Hey maybe that is why some people choose to go outside!
- Four Westerners crowded into a rickshaw is as interesting to Indians as twenty Indians in a rickshaw is to a Westerner.
- Finding a good yoga teacher is harder than you think. WS can write a whole entry on this subject.
- For Nomadic Matt: I saw more people eating with their hands in Singapore’s Little India than the whole time we spent in Rajasthan. Crazy!
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Tracy said:
I love reading of your adventures….I’m so envious. I really want to go to India! I’m still trying to figure out the financial logistics of traveling for over a year. Wow, over 461 days — Congrats!
megan said:
Oh, how I can relate to every item on that list! India is shocking, frustrating, dirty but oh so much fun
I think Pico Iyer said it best for me:
“Every trip through India was to some extent a magical mystery tour into chaos and colour and commotion. India might not be the easiest or loveliest place in the world, most travelers agreed, but it was surely the most shocking, the most amusing, the most overwhelming, the happiest and the saddest; the most human”
Nomadic Matt said:
No one eating with their hands!? I’m disappointed. forget india!!!