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Tickets booked!
« on: September 27, 2011, 02:53:37 AM »


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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2011, 03:08:05 AM »
Cool, Italy!
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« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2011, 03:09:18 AM »
Nice! I'm actually leaving in a week to backpack there for 2 months.
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« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2011, 03:11:40 AM »
Awesome Bob, can't wait for intel from the ground so I can see what's hot and what's not. I'm only going for 5 weeks though  :'(

So far this is on my to do list:
Mumbai
Udaipur
Jodphur
Jasailmer
Delhi
Shimla
Agra
Varanasi
Chilling the fuck somewhere in Goa

What are you thinking of?

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« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2011, 03:12:39 AM »
How long you going? Our trip is stupidly ambitious for 2 months. Lots and lots and lots of trains. Can't wait!
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2011, 03:15:21 AM »
I got 5 weeks.

Oh man I looked at the train times, they aren't that bad. You can get sleepers many times. And the distances aren't as crazy as in China where I had many 20+ hour rides. The problem is booking the trains though it seems, will you book online, once youre there through agents or what?

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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2011, 03:15:36 AM »
Places we'll hit:
Rishikesh area (hiking for a while)
Amritsar
Jaisalmer
Jaipur
Agra
Varanasi
Khajuraho (kama sutra carvings :-*)
Aurangabad
Hyderabad
Chennai
Kochi
Bangalore
Hampi
Mumbai


It's an insane itinerary, but it'll work. Just booked all the trains today, actually.
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2011, 03:18:10 AM »
Oh man I forgot about Hampi. I want to go to Hampi too, it looks mad.

You're initienary is more crazy, it's more over the place, but then again you have 3 weeks more  :)

I want to do some hiking too, maybe around Shimla. But it's gonna be winter when I go, so not sure how that will look. I'm curious about this Rishikesh area now...
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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2011, 03:30:50 AM »
We wanted to go hiking way up in Leh, but our itinerary was already pretty tight.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2011, 03:35:39 AM »
I'm very excited about the food man. Can't wait to try out all those street stalls.

Just looking at the places where you're going is making me reconsider Shimla and Udaipur in favour of something else.
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« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2011, 04:00:23 AM »
Thats some awesome write up.

I def want to see some nature and do some hiking. I was thinking of having Shimla as a base. What are your thoughts on this?

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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2011, 04:02:40 AM »
Hey cool post. Thanks man.
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« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2011, 04:22:59 AM »
Yeah Shimla is going to be our stop midway through the trip, and Goa for a week at the end of it.

I'll be there in winter yes, doesn't seem too cold. Anyhoo if it's snowing that would be awesome too, to see snow and beaches in one trip  :hump

I'm really curious about the hussling, I've never had trouble with it before.

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« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2011, 04:48:00 AM »
I hate hippies man, your account is exactly what I hate about them.

I just want a beach hut, or some nice resort where I can chill the fuck for a week out after 4 weeks of travel around India and all this fucking rain in Europe.

Pretty extreme first trip DC btw.
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« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2011, 08:44:52 AM »
I am so jealous of you guys, I'd love to take a trip over there just to eat the food. :drool

My friend is getting married in Hyderabad the end of the month. Wish I could've made it over there to see the ceremony.
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« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2011, 08:58:42 AM »
I spent a month in India when I was 17.  I never really got past the fact that I could buy hasheesh and a banquet halls worth of munchies for an hours worth of American minimum wage to pro-actively take in the culture smh.  Way, way too young and stupid to appreciate the trip for what it was.  I definitely intend to head back someday though, the sites were beautiful and perhaps because I was totally unprepared, the culture shock left a deep impression.  You're going to have a blast. 

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« Reply #16 on: September 27, 2011, 10:29:33 AM »
So cool to see so many folks have been there :)

I can't wait to go on the road again :rock

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« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2011, 12:05:25 PM »
I was hoping this would be your American tour!

Same here. I'd love to see your take on all the different regions.

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India is incredible. I went there in 1999.
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« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2011, 12:33:51 PM »
my travel buddy just booked a wicked hotel in agra right by the taj with a balcony and shit. giddy.
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« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2011, 01:09:40 PM »
anyone have any good India stories?
 
I lost my passport the day before my trip home.  My friends went home, and I was stuck in New Dehli negotiating with the US Embassy, Air India, the New Dehli police department, and the fleet of rickshaw drivers who were much more interested in showing me their bros antique shop on the other side of town than taking me to anywhere I needed to go.  As a young, sheltered, ignorant American I was pretty much scared shitless for the entire 14 extra days I spent there (a major hurricane had hit Mumbai, crippling Air India's database and making an earlier escape impossible).  The only solace I had was the hotels television, which had a channel devoted almost exclusively to reruns of Full House, and the tin of hash the Israeli's who had shared a room with me had left behind.  Hash was rare to find in New Dehli, at least compared to the locations I had been to further North, because the authorities were much more strict within the city.  After dealing with Indian bureaucracy all day long, I would come back to the hotel, flip on the tv, and smoke my brains dumb.  3 days before my newly arranged flight, there's a knock on the door, which was already unexpected, and when I opened it there were at least 15 police officers and 2 police canines to greet me.  The smell of hash was overwhelming, and I had left the tin wide open by my bed.  There is a very long, drawn out pause, and finally one of the officers issues a command and all policemen run up to the next flight.  They literally do not say a word to me.  Apparently there was a runaway.  But I was literally shaking for the next couple of hours.  I eventually made it home without reliving the plot to Midnight Express.

tl;dr - don't lose your passport. 
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« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2011, 01:15:21 PM »
Damn. Now that's a travel story if there ever was one. Something that will stay with you forever. Which year was this?
You say you were too young and too stoned to really enjoy it, but I think it left a deep mark on you anyway.

I'm googling for affordable resorts in GOA now, I know I'm supposed to stay in a shitty beach hut, and I will too, but I'd like to book 1/2 nights in a nice resort and suprise the miss at the end of our holiday  :-[

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« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2011, 01:23:13 PM »
Summer of 2005.  It definitely left a mark.  And yea, being the target for almost every type of scam artist imaginable is a hardening experience.  I remember a friendly snake charmer convincing me to put his snake around my neck so my friends could take photos (read: I am dumb) and than he whispered in my ears that unless I gave him 800 rupees he would sick the snake on me.   And the huge package of saffron threads I bought on the cheap turned out to be plant stems painted red.  You really have to go in expecting to be scammed regularly.

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« Reply #22 on: September 27, 2011, 01:26:52 PM »
wow. crazy story. best I can think of was getting mugged in Vietnam. oh, I also lost my passport for a good hour on the last day of my stay in iraq. finding it was the most relief I've ever felt.
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« Reply #23 on: September 27, 2011, 07:46:13 PM »
wow. crazy story. best I can think of was getting mugged in Vietnam. oh, I also lost my passport for a good hour on the last day of my stay in iraq. finding it was the most relief I've ever felt.

how is Vietnam?

I'm about to stumble into some free time in a few months.  Figured I should visit Asia because that's a thing to do as a youngster, before life shits in your mouf, or during, or after.

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« Reply #24 on: September 27, 2011, 08:26:30 PM »
Yeah, Vietnam is great. The Pho alone was worth the trip. :drool
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« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2011, 12:48:50 AM »
Shit, I'm worried. I fucked up when my plane arrives, so the girl I'm travelling with is going to have to spend a day alone in Delhi. I only worry because she has no travel experience and Indian touts sound ruthless. Fuccckkkkk.
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« Reply #26 on: September 28, 2011, 01:07:09 AM »
Wait, somehow we both miraculously fucked this up and we're meeting on the same day, but not the same day either of us realized. doi. :heartbeat
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« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2011, 05:03:14 AM »
Haha sucker  :lol

Vietnam is cool, I only spent a few days there but I def want to go back. Very vibrant.