Backpacking India In 45 Days - Travel Documentary

For the next 45

days

I will be

backpacking

all over India, from the southern state of Kerala to the ruins of Hampi and the beautiful landscape of Rishikesh along my crazy and wild journey through India. My time friends will accompany me. Every once in a while let's go

backpacking

in India in 45

days

heroes, the idea is that we start in South India and build up as the summer heat sets in, but that completely fell through. It's humid here, it's really very humid. Kerala, also known as God's Own Country. its beautiful and vibrant culture and its stunning backwaters is the state we couldn't miss unfortunately we started in the capital Trivandrum Trivandrum is not really set up for backpackers at all, it is very difficult to find decent restaurants or even a shop anyway after a long walk .

I finally found a restaurant and we ate some traditional South Indian food and then the owner showed up, his name is ROM, showed us his cool tattoos and then proceeded to take us to his most talkative 1970's studio to my collection. The next day I call my friends from high school. That's Salman and that's his job was to take us around Trivandrum in a day more like a night. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the top. There you are greeted with pleasant winds and a decent view of the Toronto Forest. It was the biggest single. Rock at Trivandrum Hall and since we are going to the beach we decided to take off here in front of the Bit Guard Church.

It's quite beautiful inside. We see the statue up there, actually about 3,000 years ago from the ocean. Love Devane just landed there a Brit like you, you know they've been the church around that statue of Jesus, so there's a belief like buying bread, like it's tied to your hand, you go in and you pray for it, you pray for it. something to come true, so eventually, when you realize that the thing tied around your hand breaks after seeing the beach with Arabian waves, our stomach was screaming for food for a 20 minute drive and my friends told me brought to this converted restaurant, what is a real alien chicken? alien, this perotta and this is naan bread, so good you shouldn't drive spicy for you, who died, not full of good Indian food and a bill of 865 rupees, only we ended the day in Toronto, like I said before, Chandram en It was not created for backpackers.

If I knew, I would have started somewhere else and now we are going to Alappuzha using the Indian train system. It is one of the largest in the world and transports thousands of people every day. I heard a lot about this Indian train. train system interestingly I have never been on a train before so starting with the Indian train system is a great experience so let's try some Indian food with ketchup it's great let's try it by the way It's very very oily, but it tastes very good, maybe it's not good for your health when you're on a train at 9am on a Friday. m. in the morning and you haven't slept last night.

Plus, hanging out on an Indian train is the best feeling in the world. A smooth three hour journey from Trivandrum to Alappuzha and the second day was a very good first experience being in a tree once we got off the train at Alappuzha. It's really amazing. They have this whole system in place where you pay like a rupee. i give you a tuk-tuk and it's pretty cheap, it cost us like 140 rupees, yeah, that's such a cool service, to be honest, I checked it on uber and it was like 300 rupees, sometimes it took, it's actually better than Hoover or all attacks or something else, one of the Lords. who came to this place described this place Venice of Ace because of how beautiful, how amazing this place looks and I understand why he described it like that because it is really beautiful in Kochi.

I highly recommend you to visit this area, it has good food, good vibes and many cheap hostels living in the state of Kerala. Kochi has a lot more tourists, a lot nicer restaurants, so the port looked a lot better. The streets have walking paths. Yes, not much, but better than nothing, another thing you notice in Kochi is a Many of the buildings are Dutch or Portuguese inspired because this is like a port city where many people from all over the world come to trade, such as those houses there, nothing like what you see in India, completely different, decide go to the beach Matt Matt Gandhi, to be honest, there is nothing special and the beach was very dirty, but that didn't stop these happy little ones school children will play.

People in Kochi are much happier, much more positive. I feel like it's the happiest group so far. Of the people I have seen behind me is the Portuguese Museum in Kochi, obviously being a museum they did not allow me to photograph inside so headed to the Dutch palace on the way, we decided to stop to thank them, they are potatoes, yes , it's really great. Okay, okay, I forgot the name of this, but this one is good too. He just fried something. The Dutch palace was another field of the Dutch palace and there was nothing at all, just some Himes going on and we couldn't get in because it's only for people from the Hindu religion is bloodless, but another, we have some goats on the road and they look very okay so the next day we headed to vape which is just on the other side of Fort Kochi and he is my favorite so behind me is the Chinese fishing net in The local language is called Chien avala.

There are plenty of them in Fort Kochi and Reppin Island, but apparently these fishing nets are disappearing because they don't catch many fish and the operating costs are high due to environmental problems. These are disappearing and they are not catching many fish, but it is really very interesting to see how all this works with stones and about five six fishermen working on each of them, okay, yes, very nice, three points, what the fish makes a flower. fish, well, fish, good fisherman, he was so kind that he invited us in and invited us to pass a kilo.

The fish is amazing. So amazing. That night we went to a traditional Indian Kappa Kali dance show, it's really native to this region and it's really nice that they're doing the Makeup right now so let's go check it out and here are some things we did in Kochi. Lulu ma went to Kochi metro and a tip: this really promoted a restaurant called dal roti. Now the food was decent, but I never understood why people had There are so many things online, so that's Kochi, beautiful city, beautiful people and a good fight. I would definitely recommend the city.

The train was leaving late at night, so we headed to the train station much earlier, sitting on the dirty floor, after a few mosquito bites. We were on our way, a 13 hour train ride from Kochi to go, everything was fine but the journey became very tiring anyway, let's stop for a first segment. Every time you hear about India, you hear about its excellent train system and it's really crazy how it's transported. Millions of people all year round in crazy India and they are still working, so in this short guide I will talk about the classes, the good, the bad and my own opinion.

Remember that I will only talk about long-distance trains and not short-distance trains. once the lowest class you have is general class, this is not highly recommended until you are on an extreme budget, you don't need any reservation, you just go to the train station and get a general class ticket and that's it, but the conditions They are absolutely crazy, you have 10 people sitting in a place for two, you have people on the floor, people on the ceiling, it's absolutely crazy, so this is not really recommended. The next step is the second class. Now it's like the general class, but you have to reserve the number of people. it's somewhat manageable, but again still crazy, not recommended at all.

Next you have a sleeper class again, you don't have air conditioning here, a lot of people, but it's good for your pocketbook now that we get to the big three, third AC, second AC and first. AC now I have only

travel

ed once in the third AC and it is a pretty good experience, you have three beds on each side and two on the other side so there are a total of eight beds per section, it is crowded but still manageable when you don't have options and you want to. to

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by train take thread and look, it is completely manageable to travel for more than 12 hours here the next one is one of the best and that is the second day look at the second day see a balance between budget and comfort it is right in the middle alone you have six beds compared to eight and there is much more headroom and less people, of course if I travel for a longer period of time I will definitely choose the second air conditioning and last but definitely not least the first air conditioner, this is the highest level of comfort you can Compare the second AC, it's really not a big difference and I'll get to that in a moment, so now let's get to the products first.

Indian Railway has an amazing app, it is absolutely amazing the amount of information you can get. From this app you can get live train stations, check your PNR number, check seeds, order food, many things can be done from this app, make sure to check this app. The second good thing is that the trains are on time, as you might think, with 1.2 billion people and It's crazy in India that the trains are always late, but most of the time they are on time. Now it's not as perfect as say Japan, but for what it is it's pretty good and when the train is late you get a notification on your phone telling you about it. it's late, I took her on seven train rides and I think she was late once so that's very good, next it's generally clean if you look around in India, most places it's very dirty, Unfortunately, trains are generally cleaner than you think.

They provide you with clean blankets, pillows and overall it's pretty clean, of course as you go in the lower classes the dirtier it gets but that's to be expected due to the amount of people that come after it, it's comfortable, the Train trips are generally very comfortable because you are not going very fast and you do not have very sharp turns, the amount of potholes is minimal and, in general, the comfort level is much higher than that of a bus or anything else. Now let's get to the bad part number one, it's very expensive if you're stuck halfway.

Economy train travel can be very expensive, they are more expensive than buses and sometimes the first air conditioning can cost as much as a plane ticket, so if you are on an economy train it may not be the best option for you, it is quite difficult to get seats. Trains you have to book three or four days in advance and sometimes even that puts you on the waiting list, you have to book the next ticket as soon as you get to the next city which can sometimes take the fun out of it to your backpacking experience, so yes.

It is very difficult to get seats on the trains and the last people shout, remember how I said it is very comfortable on the trains, well it is, but again people keep shouting on the train that you are trying to sleep and there will be people trying to sell you , for. scream all day the second day I see you paid it really goes down the drain but it is what it is overall on my train trip to India it's crazy a lot of travel documentaries exaggerate it a lot and I understand why What, to be honest, if you're on a budget, it's very difficult to justify the train prices anyway, that was a guide to India train.

This is day 2 in Goa. I didn't record anything yesterday after a long train ride. I was really good, better than me. It was expected, but after a long train ride I didn't really feel like recording anything, so I just went to the beach and relaxed. I kept my camera away, but on the second day today we are going to see many places around Goa. thank god I'm next to the lambi condo everything is close so far first impression this place looks like an island that's all I can say it looks like Thailand is more of a party atmosphere as I can I can understand why people smoke so much It's really because it you feel in the air.

The weather is much better. So, then, much better than better than all the care seems like 26 degrees and it's windy and it's perfect anyway, let's explore, come on, did you notice? Less honking, I don't see honking, you hear birds, that's rare in India. The next thing I did was Google the best beaches in Goa and these were the ones that came up. Here's the plan: We go from beach to beach until we reach 404 and this is what happens for the first time, so I just got to Colin's glass Colin, seriously, I don't know what all the fuss about the speech is, it's very dirty, there are so many people in Dolan Beach, the place next door where I stay is much better than this beach to be honest. so if you come to skip this beach, you won't miss much.

I mean there are water sports and stuff but not really it's not the beach for everyone and especially not for me so I decided to skip all the beaches and just head straight for a snack or a fort so far it looks amazing the view from here it's really nice you've got the ocean you've got the greenery and behind me there's a chip or a fork so yeah come on you know it was a slippery walk to thetop I would definitely avoid a rainy season, however the fort is just another old historic fort. It had a very good view from the top, although with the Arabian Sea flowing into the Chippewa River, one strange thing was that they burned grass everywhere, who burned this. place, what else did he do and we went up?

We went to the Panaji Capitol. It had very beautiful architecture. The entire city seemed to be at least a hundred years old, but at the same time it was new. We also went to the Church of the Immaculate Conception and met some fun local kids. the last day and I'm leaving right now. I'm having my morning tea. Seriously, I don't know what the high bar is. Although the atmosphere here is very nice. We are all enjoying the beach scene. Is incredible. Not all beaches are so controlling. It's pretty good, so if you tell me to go and make sure to visit this beach, it's pretty good compared to the other beaches I've been to.

I don't film all the beaches because it was the same thing over and over again, but this one is nice. Okay, but the general impression of Goa would be that there are a lot of old people and Russians. It's strange. I looked up why there are many Russians. There are many and many Russians. You will even see restaurant menus in Russian so if you are coming to India check it out but don't stay here more than three days because you will probably get bored three or four days should be absolutely fine don't miss too much our next stop was happy now there is many ways you can get to happy but by far the most convenient way is the bus.

You have two options here: stay in the hospital. take a bus to hampi for 15 rupees or just stay in hampi. Both work quite well, but the hospital is more developed and cheaper. We've just arrived. in hampi and i think this is the most peaceful place you can find in

india

for the first time. I can't hear any beeping from any car or anything. I can only hear nature and I feel like I'm making noise because I don't hear any opposing sounds. It's so peaceful and right now we're in this in this in this a band I don't know if it's abandoned but on this private road there's no one this is amazing this is just super super super peaceful let's go explore Moria we Let's explore this place that we saw in the distance, we don't know how to get there, but we just do it by intuition, I have no idea how to get there and there are rocks and lizards and stuff, but they actually look like fun things.

It's fun to explore so one thing you will see is that there are a lot of bottles here if you are a woman there or you collect them so yes we have so much trash from humans in this nice and beautiful place. pull this is not good you have most of them here we just got to the hampi pool because other words google shows it to me and that's what I want to call hampi pool as you can see that side is the pool empty or empty. Well, then we enter the daring vehicle, uh, Ganesha area and go to the sunset viewpoint because look at the beautiful sunset.

It looks very cute. There's a dog. I'm afraid of dogs. Don't make eye contact. Rihanna's videos can't describe how beautiful. This place is like a mixture of stones, vegetation, mountains, temples and history. You can't show it through the video, no matter how amazing what I recorded is, it won't show through the video, so the best you can do is no matter how difficult it is. It's for you to reach Hampi just be happy, it's 100 percent worse than every penny you pay, welcome to Hampi bike adventure, that doesn't sound that interesting, so today we have two bikes and we are going to ride everywhere.

Hampi by bike and see some amazing places and get some amazing photos. Hopefully it will be a fun ride and I hope you guys enjoy. Yes, the plan was to visit five different historical sites in Hampi and since they were not far apart, it was totally possible or was it. So our first stop we arrived at the underground Shiva temple. It looks beautiful so we found this side temple right next to the main temple. I don't know what's on top of this. He was burning. She says it's burned, but I think it is. only the aging of the water made it like this because it was burned, it will be much darker than this, that's what I think, but I don't know, second stop, we are the queen's bat, this is the southeast side of the old royal compound, some interesting facts about this.

There is a kind of small lake right around this place where there is a constant supply of fresh water. It's crazy how big it is, to be honest, this thing is bigger than my house. She is ready to bathe, also outside. You must have supply. of freshwater apparently there will be some crocodiles wandering around to protect the princess queen but apparently that's a thing for me I just stopped at this restaurant called mango tree it's packed and look so far. Wow, we stopped at the Chandra Shekar temple. It took me a million tries to say his name correctly, I finally got it right.

Anyway, it's a very small little temple, not famous at all. One thing I noticed is that every structure I walk into is cool on the inside, it's really cool on the inside. I think that's how they stayed calm in the past, it's a really calm place. I think if I ever lived in this place, I would come here quietly and you should come here too, okay guys, so this is the last stop of our day, the Royal Enclosure. The compound is quite large and is covered by a huge wall around it to protect from enemies, I suppose, but he will continue this adventure tomorrow the next day.

We continue exploring Hampi. Each temple we went to was different and beautiful in its own way. I loved. While we were exploring, we saw this tall mountain and decided to climb it because why don't we try to climb the top of a mountain? We're really not sure of the way, so I think we finally found the right path and we're going to hike to the top of that cool mountain, the view from there should be pretty good. I really hope it's worth going up there. I finally reached the top of this place. The view from the top is absolutely stunning.

Never for a second does Willi ask if happy is beautiful or not Hampi has a lot to offer, it was one of the best places in India, you can walk for weeks and weeks and still have something left to discover, it's quiet, the people He is friendly. I love the place, very happy. it is a must visit place in India traveling by bus in India is a huge market it is very big and so far I have traveled for more than 12 hours anyway let me stop the gibberish and jump right into it to hear the different guys. of the buses also remember this is discrediting all the local buses those drone counties are long ride bucks so you have the regular seat first oh cheese there is a clock so you have the regular seats first the buses find AC and non-AC, AC are generally around 150 or 200 rupees more expensive, but it is worth going to warmer areas with air conditioning and air-conditioned buses are usually much cleaner than non-ac buses , so you have a normal bus with air conditioning or without air conditioning and if you pay a little more you get to the They are called Volvo buses, they have bigger seats, you can lie down, you can relax, it is generally much more comfortable now, so Generally, this only comes with air conditioning, but you will see some buses with Big C and that do not have air conditioning, but let's get to the most interesting ones. and that is the bedroom, so there is bedroom with air conditioning and bedroom without air conditioning, but there are different types of bedroom, there is a 2 by 2 bedroom and a 1 by 2 bedroom, so the 2 by 2 bedrooms 2s generally have less space compared to 1 by 2s. 1 by 2 sleepers have a lot going on and of course there is air conditioning and non-air conditioning in this tube.

I personally take air conditioning all the time, but I've talked to some people who didn't take air conditioning and they really enjoyed it because it gets air in. and you know the smells that come in but some people can handle it and you know that's okay so let's get to the good part of the trip which number one bus would be cheaper there it's usually a lot cheaper than the trains of course , and what I'm talking about. As for cheap, it is much cheaper, like a ticket on the second air conditioning, and the train would cost you 2200.

The same ticket on a bus would cost you like 1200 rupees. The difference is really significant, so if you're looking to save some money, take the bus. The second would be their frequency, the buses frequency is actually higher than Trainz. It is very difficult to find hot tickets to book four or three days in advance and you are still on the waiting list, less you pay so much money, but stay. It's actually easier to get than train tickets, so you save yourself some stress. Also, the buses are really clean, especially the ones I've been on in the AC buses.

I mean, they're clean when they start, but you don't know what's going to happen at the end. the trip is because people throw garbage everywhere, like everywhere, now let's get to the bad part, part number one is the time, their times are not always accurate when I said always, it is never accurate if they tell you They will depart at 8:30, they are expected to depart. It was around 9:00 or 9:30, I even remember going from Goa to Hampi. The bus was supposed to leave at 7, it showed up at 8 and left at 10. Time wise, they are not the most reliable and the second thing is that comfortable buses are usually not that comfortable.

The trains are really comfortable buses. You are falling out of bed, it is moving and stopping the bus driver, I don't know what speed bump is so comfortable, it is really not good, also India is not really flat. In a lot of places there's this weird thing on the bus where they turn off the air conditioning every 10 or 15 minutes when they're going up a hill or something and it's so annoying that you're just trying to sleep and you're sweating and you're cold, you're sweating your embers, it's not a very good experience yeah that was the big Indian city guy on my list Hyderabad aka my biggest mistake going to Condor about 10 minutes ago and going straight because we don't have any.

Many times this place closes at 5:30 and we arrived around 4:30, so an hour to explore all this for a very short time. This is something strange. India in almost every historical monument I have seen people create their name on. sweetheart, it's so weird how I'll show you on the walls, like why would you destroy this old monument with your fucking name when it's so stupid it's literally very, very stupid finally made it to the top of the board, it's pretty easy to get up here three-two-one hey, it's very nice to meet some children from here, they are very friendly, very nice, so it was like a surprise Kinder at the top of the fort, apart from the view with all the pollution that the children have.

Great, they're the only guys in India who don't stare at you when you walk, they'll just play with you and wave to you, say goodbye and ask you where you're from and I'll go. I want to sell you anything. I forgot it. Founder 4. It was all downhill, from there we went to the old city of Hyderabad to see Charminar. It cost you 200 rupees to get into that building and literally to go up for 10 seconds, grab it and come back is definitely ours to see from the outside. Then I made my biggest mistake by drinking lightly this street juice, this juice alone killed me the next day when we visited Ramoji Film City.

Where do I start talking about Ramu G Film City? Hello, little friends, the biggest attraction now, I don't know where. To start talking about the bad things about your film city, it was a very, very bad experience for me. If you go to their website there is not a single mention about camera regulations but guess what there is and you can only find out when you are at the main gate now Rama G Film City is not close to the main city it is very far away, It takes a long time to get there by bus so you have two options here: return or leave your valuables at the locker counter and once you go to the locker counter in big bold letters it is written that we are not responsible for your items Of value, that's your only job anyway.

I decided to give him my camera so when I went to the locker counter I just asked the guy if it was going to be safe and the guy said "If you don't want to go in just give the ticket back and come back, yeah right after I did a 30-40 minute drive here, the movie City was decent, but with so much salt on my plate of experience, I didn't like it at all." but since it was fine, then you're thinking, what am I doing in this place besides ha? Well I'm in Varanasi right now because I usually like to give time before talking about a place and not get the best of my emotions and give or say something about an entire city just because I'm angry at that moment anyway let's move on and Let's talk about Hyderabad.

I am going to talk about the goods, the few goods and the bad part of Hyderabad, so the first thing is that a city is just it is just bad, it has about 6.8 million people, the pollution, the population is crazy, it is very, very dirty, there are bicycles aroundeverywhere, no one cares that you walk around, people spit everywhere, it's just not a good situation, the second thing is the people, the people are really not the friendliest you will meet, they keep staring and generally just They are not willing to do it now. I know this doesn't apply to everyone who lives in Hyderabad but overall there were a lot of rude people and the thing is I'm a backpacker or not I don't expect five star service I really don't care I don't want something special I just want something normal anymore you know a certain level where you walk in you say hello or hello it's like nothing, it's like it's dead, it's like everyone has this dome of negative attitude for some strange reason.

The third thing is that there is not much to see in Hyderabad, it is a city with people and that's it, you have the fort, you have the Romans. movie city that's it you're done so it's not really worth going there to see the place but one good thing you will find is that the food there is really good even though I got really sick anyway the Food in Hyderabad is excellent. -notch, it's absolutely amazing. I love the food in Hyderabad, so generally, you guys come to India and are thinking of stopping in Hyderabad for a day or two.

Skip it, believe me, you will find better places with better people, better landscapes, better, not everything. You waste your time in Hyderabad. I was unlucky to be stuck there for 4 days, but don't waste your time there. You are much better off in almost all other parts of India. So yeah, that was Hyderabad. It takes between 25 and 28 hours by train. from Hyderabad to Kolkata so we took the plane which took us 1 hour and 30 minutes on the first day in Kolkata trying to leave all the bad attitude in Hyderabad and trying to explore the city. So far it looks like I'm going to spend days in this city. really nice the roads are clean the greetings are much better than Hyderabad I'm just trying to keep the positive attitude goal right now we're going to be Viktor Memorial and yeah let's see what happens from there as you walk in we have interruptedfor selfie I said we, I wanted Say she, I look like a local anyway, so that's what happens when you're a foreigner in India, people randomly come and ask you for a selfie, which is please, during the night, at least they were nice and they asked, which is great.

Usually he just hears selfie, please demand a selfie. I think if we start charging foreigners for selfies because they charge us more to enter these places, then why not charge them to take pictures? They charge 10 rupees per photo there, it was like 10 guys. that's like 100 rupees 200 rupees that's like lunch in a small place behind me is the Victoria Memorial Hall dedicated to Queen Victoria it was built between 1906 and 1921 apparently it has over 30,000 collections I don't know what it was for in those days but right now it's just a tourist attraction in the middle of Kolkata, cameras are not allowed inside so I don't know what I can really show you, but this whole place looks really clean and nice, really cool place to relax in the middle of Calcutta, of course.

With no museum, I couldn't take pictures or videos inside, but make sure you visit on a weekday and not in week 4. I just visited the Victoria Memorial Hall. The whole place is huge, too many people, but one thing that was really fun. It's encouraging to me to use Indian money to build this whole place and then they charge the Indians to get in, but the thing is really nice, there are a lot of artifacts, there are a lot of statues, a lot of history. I like a lot. place actually if there were not many people and after that we decided to explore the city a little and we stumbled upon the famous Kolkata trying this chai and love made of clay it is popular in Kolkata region and let's see how it tastes apparently because of the cup , hey, it's different or better, I know I'm not moving much because it's full to capacity, it tastes better, I'm going to say, and this only costs 70 pieces.

Crazy ideas that you can melt down and recycle these cups, but I don't think that's the case, regardless, it's still better than plastic after you get a fresh cut. We are trying this jhaal muri that you get on the streets of Pokhara. It's puffed rice mixed with a lot of oil and it's made with mustard oil, onion, mashed potatoes, okay. oh yeah let's try it, this wasn't the best but it still tastes great, a little spicy. I wish puffed rice was much more fragrant and quite comfortable for that, be sure to try it. I will film it and it costs 10 rupees, only you can get it.

The 15 rupees one, which is larger and repeats, is worth it. The Coconut was a special place to me in a way, not just because I could understand everyone there, but because it was a former capital of British India, it's a kind of strange joy to be there. In a place with so many historical means behind it, I now know that there is a lot to do and see in Kolkata and West Bengal, but I was very tired of big cities at this time and wanted to escape at any cost, but overall Kolkata was very friendly since taxi drivers to street vendors.

I recommend you visit Calcutta if you visit India. Our bus ride that was supposed to take 12 hours yesterday, two girls traveled 27-28 hours and then getting here took another three hours. about an hour, so I arrived here late last night in this parish. The owner of a homestay in Seoul was super, super nice, he made dinner even though it was very late. Everything closes at 7:00 7:30. Another thing is that it's very cold, not that much outside, but in the room it's about 9 degrees, but for a guy who grew up in the desert in the middle of the desert, but you know, Desert Hot Country, this is pretty cold, the view is not the best at the moment because of all the clouds.

I know what that is, let's see what I can do today and see all the places we can walk or visit somehow you'll see the cold isn't the problem, it's the humidity, but I wasn't going to let this stop me from exploring. beautiful dear, this came to the beloved peace pagoda and next to the japanese buddhist temple they are located very close to each other. It was kind of a good hike, but it's a lot of fun because you might meet locals on the way to the top. the temples or you can just take the car entrance which is not fun, it is not recommended to walk and climb the hilly and difficult roads, you will meet the locals and have a lot of fun after walking and hiking all the little ones. small streets of Darjeeling we go to the main center of Darjeeling we have not been there because we related last night.

I think that's where all the main things are happening when we go and see what it's like. As I walked I realized how different India is because of its food attire, the people all looked different. I'm definitely not complaining, this was a breath of fresh air. Plus, my moms are delicious. You can't come to a Tea Hill town and not try their drinks. in this little tea shop called culture just next to the street, finally, after staying at home all day, I finally found out what the first flush, the second flush, and other flushes mean, so the second flush apparently It has a medium strength and the following ones are strong, the first one.

It's very, it's not strong, that's all and there are many selections of tea that you can find in Darjeeling. You will try normal summer tea. You only cost 40 rupees. The second player must be medium strong. Did you hear that sip? Let me repeat it. That's quite a mouthful, as Darjeeling is very close to Nepal. All the locals here spoke Nepali but interestingly, they also spoke English very fluently. It was very nice to see how diverse the culture of Darjeeling was. It was starting to rain a little here and there surrounded. by clouds above me look here is the Darjeeling toy train, our hotel owner told us it's just an expensive trick and the weather didn't allow for good views anyway so we skipped it.

It is absolutely cold outside as the clouds passed through us and Arjun. but today morning we went to Tiger Hill and that's how we went so we woke up around 4am. in the morning, the car picked us up around 4:30. It took us 20-30 minutes to get there, it was supposed to be dawn. It will be at 6 but we all go with people shouting for coffee Indian men taking bad selfies a lot of clouds a lot of tourists taking photos that's all we couldn't see the sunrise because or it doesn't sunrise what bad luck for us who did it I can't see the sunrise just the weather, you can't really do anything about it right now, it's even worse.

Pitts around 1000 rupees for everything and when I spoke to the car driver, he told me what is the best season to check out Tiger. Hill finished in November, it's a lot cooler then, but it's here a lot so you can see the views, so yeah, big waste of money, but you can't really predict the weather, what happened, what happened, You know, after that mistake of a day. I decide to walk around Darjeeling and meet the local people and without a doubt, these were the friendliest group of people I met in India. They didn't want anything from me nor did they want to sell me anything, they just wanted to say hello if you ever go.

Darkling, make sure you have a smile on your face and greet people very warmly for the people of Darjeeling, but the next day I decided to dress up as a homeless man and talk about the Darklings. Well, after staying here for three days, we will wake up today morning. I finally have a beautiful clear view, which is crazy crazy mountains far away from here, how can you love it? In conclusion, Darjeeling was an amazing cold experience. Make sure to check it out when you are in India. I really don't like waking up in the morning, but it fits along the bank of the Ganges, it's totally worth the wait, wait, how did it get to the Ganges?

Please, the idea was to take a 17 hour train ride from Siliguri to Varanasi which failed, there were no seats available, we will take a bus from siliguri to Varanasi which also failed as there is no direct bus, take a 12 hour overnight bus ride hours from Siliguri to Patna and then took the next bus to Varanasi which also failed so this is what happened. I took a 12 hour bus from Silly Guru to Patna, everything was fine, but once you reach Patna there are no buses to Varanasi, all the bus drivers will give you random information about this and in the end you get lost.

Fortunately, I made this guy very nice and he told me the best option is to take it. a train from Patna to Varanasi and that's what I did except there was a general class ticket. If you're wondering why I said that, little by little keep asking yourself if you know what it is, you know what it is, so it will never end, gods in the gang bank. around 85 gods, there are around 2000 temples in the entire city of Varanasi which is crazy, we are only two hours in but if you were to see each god it would take around 4 hours so behind me.

It was the cremation of the Hindu people, they kindly asked me not to film it and I didn't take the course, so apparently this goes on 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it goes on, it never stops, they have bodies learning all the time, it takes two to three hours and takes Around five to eight thousand rupees to burn a body comes from all over the country. Another interesting thing I learned is that there is a group of people who do not burn the body, so number one, if it is a child under ten years old, they do it. don't burn it if it's a pregnant woman if it's bitten by a cobra and a pretty specific person and if it's a holy person they don't burn them they tie them to a stone they go to the middle of the Ganges and they just drop them and they just sink slowly so Yes, they burn the body there and leave the ashes in the Ganges because it is a sacred procedure.

People who don't have money usually go to the government where they burn it using electricity, but most people just do it here. Now I know I said I was tired of big cities, but Varanasi was different, it's a big city, but it's not really crowded, but not really. Keep in mind that you shouldn't do anything stupid here, it is a sacred tourist city. You have these cool cows on the street. and people trying to scam you into their store the perfect mix that afternoon we went on a tuk-tuk adventure around Varanasi now this is what we went to several temples but the whole tour was too crowded to have a meaningful connection with the place which we went to.

I would really rather visit some places and spend more time anyway, after the whole temple adventure we followed this old man on a jury to see how saris were made in Varanasi and almost got ripped off. Further on, the entire journey costs us around 600 rupees. which is pretty good in my opinion, sometimes I prefer this to going alone, wait, what are you doing in the Ganges gang? Hey? We are back in Genji and at night we are going to see them puja. Some are thieves and This time is going to be better because people were praying and I will tell you more information as I have it.

They are creating some bodies and these two, the people who approach her or not, when they are creating the body, they do not. record it please, very rude because it's someone's family member or someone they really love has passed away and quality control is a ritual you really shouldn't record lifefrom Briones, so when there is someone burning bodies or reporting the next day, I decided to walk. along the bank of the Ganges for a closer look at the earth days and prayers, beware of all the scammers, they will be super friendly to you by finding common ground and then proceed to take you to their store regardless that it was wonderful. experience of watching them pray to other Ganges with their perfectly dressed suits and beautiful prayer ceremonies where nothing will be one of my favorite places not only in India but in the world this city is what I call controlled chaos everything is burning poop in the street Traffic crazy people, but fun at the same time.

I don't know how it really works, but it definitely works. Go to Varanasi. It was a long and uncomfortable 12-15 hour air-conditioned third trip from Varanasi to speed up the water. This wasn't because of the Train, but because of the night train passengers, people just take their seats without asking and you can't even wake them up anyway. How you do? Our trip to Rishikesh was a terrible trip, but guess what, that wasn't the worst part of our day. because my friend Claudia forgot her purse on the train, inside the purse were passports, credit cards, ID, driver's license, a few hundred dollars, really valuable things and we didn't even realize we were losing it until the police He called us from the train station so that you have to go all the way back to pick it up now, not only to get all the valuables back, but it was exactly the way we left it, not even a dollar missing.

The guy who returned to the police was just a normal train station worker and I don't want anything in return. I am sharing this story because there are many bad things in India but among them sometimes you find very very nice people, first of all you are cash rich in the foothills of Himalayas and that is a lie, no this is my second . day here in Rishikesh the first day I really didn't feel like recording anything. I was just rocking the place, but a quick summary would be that we went to the Little Buddha cafe. The place is quite nice.

I like walking on the streets of Rishikesh. It's really beautiful. Finally the weather. It's absolutely amazing here, I love it, it's not too difficult, it's not too cold, it's just perfect, you know, regardless of that, Rishikesh, the birthplace of yoga, is also the place where people come to find themselves for two weeks and comes back, but you know the place is nice. Well, Rishikesh is also a place where my travel

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stopped. You see, I love filming, but sometimes you just want to experience things as they are, so I kept the camera away for a few days, bought a ukulele and played it.

Riverside is okay, so the place I'm staying in Rishikesh is with Molly and the yoga retreat, it's white, literally, just the little Buddha cafe. I'll show you the balcony view, so this is our view from the hotel room. It's crazy, can you believe it? I just paid 500 rupees for this room and a view like this of the Ganges of course it changes from season to season or sometimes it's more expensive and sometimes I'm pretty sure it's cheaper but anyway it's a bargain. Let's move on to our next segment after transportation. Housing is one of the most important things you will have to deal with in India, so it is very important that you do this part correctly.

What are the ways you can book hotels and hostels in India? I personally use it. booking comm Agora really doesn't work that well in India booking.com and some other apps are your best option but guess what this is not the best way to book it. The best way to book hotels and hostels in India is by going to the hotel, yes it may seem really scary but believe me this is the best way to get cheap hotels now. I don't know why when you book through an app or online booking, the attitude towards you from the hotel owners is low because I already booked it, they don't really care, but if you go there and book it, you can usually get a much better price, better service and you have negotiation rights.

It can be scary when you are traveling all night and have nowhere to stay except India. It has a large number of hotels and it is very easy to just walk in and book. Another tip I would like to add is to make sure you check the rooms before you book them, when you go there and book you can check the rooms and sometimes the pictures online. lie so that's another reason to book when you go there you'll be able to see the hotel and if something doesn't work you can ask for a different room but again it's up to you if you don't want to do that you can book through the app it's not great thing now, let's talk about prices now India is not as cheap as you would think, so it is actually much more expensive.

Yes, you can get cheap hotels, but the standards are really low in Thielen. I booked the hotel for $15.00 and it was in better condition than the $30.00 hotel in India, so in India there is a certain level that you booked below that the hotel is just bad, so it's better to spend a couple of dollars more and go to a better hotel, of course, the price range depends on your budget you can book a hostel or hotel for $10 or $10,000 the price range is like any other tourist economy tree, it is all over the place but I would say that between fifteen and thirty dollars is a very good bet and you can even go to cheaper hostels but the problem with that is that it is almost full so it is a little difficult to get a bed, but again, it all depends on the time of year you go and what area you go to, so yeah, that was your guide to accommodation in India, so here it is.

My very honest first impression from a couple of days about Rishikesh, our upbringing is supposed to be a very spiritual religious place for people to come visit but because of all the tourists coming from all over the world and from India, this place has lost real vibes. Now I say, don't get me wrong, it still has the religious atmosphere of spiritual relaxation, but it is much more commercial now on every corner they are trying to sell you yoga, on every corner there is meditation and the real atmosphere is actually gone, but the people who came. Here, expecting that vibe to be forced into that because they were shirts, pants, bracelets, necklaces, they were just forced to be in that vibe for some reason and then at some point it gets really awkward, like they're trying hard to be more spiritual, but the thing is that you can.

Don't really try to be spiritual, it just happens within now, don't get me wrong. I don't hate people who come here to find themselves or get lost. I'm just saying that fashion is really being pushed for no reason. I don't know what it was like ten years ago now it's too commercial and yeah, but that's all they'll impress you with, so after four days of doing absolutely very little in Rishikesh, we're finally doing something where we're going camping. camping, rafting, hiking, all that stuff, so I thought I'd do something different, okay, so this is my phone and I'm going to turn it off completely at this point, it's two days one night, kind of an experiment. , but it's not really, I just have my camera and that's it, no maps, nothing, we look, whatever it is, it's closed, so after about an hour of driving and an hour of walking, finally we arrive at the camp, where we can explain how beautiful and magnificent this place is, everything has mountains. around you, but before we look at all this, let's see how we got here.

We leave the ark and it's about a mile uphill to the camp. It's like you're back in Thailand again trekking along this narrow trail. I see many Ayurvedic tracks and medicines in the mountains. It's crazy how we use modern medicine to survive, but these villagers we don't have the option to go all the way down to look for medicine, so they just use natural remedies and it works pretty well. for them now, of course, due to better transportation, some of them return for medicine, but they have been living here for hundreds of years without any problem because the mountain provides them with everything and they give back to the mountain the feeling of being in her. top of the world with all the mountains around you, but five seconds later you realize that their mountains are higher than where you are standing and these are not even the highest mountains, after a while we arrive at our camp, we have lunch and We left after resting a little we decided that we were going to go to this abandoned town right next to a camp.

It was abandoned about 15 years ago. Another thing is that I won't be wearing my good walking shoes in the fall. Alright. The abandoned town repeats itself during the day and is so creepy that we imagine during the night what it looks like. The people left this because in those days it was very difficult to get here, they didn't have schools or anything, so they just moved to a different place where you can have a better life, that's up to you, but now there is a school nearby. There are temples that are much easier to get to here.

Yes, you think Trek keeps getting better. You wouldn't think you have to see with your eyes, but the view is crazy. I would just like to put the highest point of the mountain we stayed on, it looks crazy from here you can see the Ganges from here you can see the little town after Rishikesh you can see the gem ah but it's that small so it's very very small and I know the view is not very good because of the angle of the sun. It's crazy to think how small we are compared to what we think.

You know the sun is finally setting and it seems magical. The moment is magical. It's worth it. Coming here on the second day of two days of camping, today we have a very long and high track, but before we leave this beautiful and beautiful place, let me show you the place first. You have the kitchen. You have a cooling area. You are number two until area number three. What I'm saying is that there are many places to relax. You have this room where you can play cards, have dinner, have lunch, but there is a fire there.

You also have a fireplace outside, of course, you have the bathroom, which by the way is very clean, considering its height. Overall a really nice conversation, let's have breakfast and get out of here, although I really don't want to leave. I could stay here for a week, believe me, but we have to do it. We are walking downhill for about five to five. Now in ten minutes I can see the beautiful nature around us and the fresh air and I slip a couple of times here and there, it's really going down. It feels like a routine, a shortcut to the end, little girl, still on the trail and now we're approaching a town, you know you're entering human territory when you just look around and see plastic everywhere we go and we make sure that there is waste.

The town was great. We saw some cute baby animals, a house made of stones, a tough woman climbing trees, and our guide. He showed us what to do when you run out of soap in the mountains after that we continued our trek Trek finally reached the road. I don't know what will happen next, but the part of the road that means a little less adventure, but. Your knees are a little happier than before, just stop by our unofficial campground. We have our juice from our amazing guide and some chips and bananas. Why not? You can see the Ganges from here.

You can see the top of one. You can see Rishikesh. Now that we are approaching the waterfall, the thing is that this one is a little smaller than the one at about 600 700 meters high, but it is still almost a waterfall, oh yeah, not the waterfall I was expecting anyway, I dip my feet into it and the trek is almost officially over, we're just walking a couple of kilometers I guess, and then we just take a car back to Lakshmi Chawla, but the adventure isn't over, it's okay, don't worry , we have rafting in rapids to do about 16 kilometers.

You see, the rafting was supposed to be crazy, but we were joined by this gentleman who didn't really want in on the action anyway. I jumped into the coal. The Ganges felt the holy water and we headed for some rapids, so. this is my passport a bangladeshi passport i was born in bangladesh around 2 years old i moved to qatar and live there for the rest of my life those born in bangladesh raised in qatar now i know this information may seem useless but trust me it will make sense later As for language, English is my first language because English is the only language I can speak, read, write, understand everything.

English is my first language, but in addition to English, I can speak Hindi Bengali or a little Arabic and I am learning French. Now that you know all the information, what I am going to tell you will make a lot of sense in India. I faced a lot of problems with racism every time I came to a hotel and they used to be very very welcoming, this would be really really nice until they see my passport, once they realize that I am from Bangladesh, their whole attitude towards me just changes and I have no ideawhy now I really don't know why they treat me or act differently when they find out I'm Bangladeshi, maybe. because we are neighbors and they don't see us as tourists but I don't really care it's not a good way to treat a person just because they have a different passport or their different color there are more than a few occasions where I had a bad experience with racism in India and the turning point of this experience of racism was in beautiful Rishikesh, unfortunately, so every time you check into a hotel they scan your Indian visa and your information page and fill in the details, this is normal, it is pretty.

In many places where this is done just for security and also required by the government but in Rishikesh something different happened after I checked in and stayed in the hotel or like two days a guy comes back and tells me to give me my photo he just wanted a passport size photo and I was super confused because I thought you already have the copy of my passport, you already have the copy of my visa, why are you in my photo? He says no, I can only have one accurate photo and I'm really confused at this point because I don't know what's going on and I asked him why a couple of times, when the guy was very nice, the hotel owner was very very nice , but then he said that the police want my photo and at that moment he was super. confused like why the police want my passport size photo and what will they do with it and then after I asked myself more questions like why what is this he just tells the truth he said ah people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh you know that in At some point they require a photo.

I am so confused because we have the visa given by the Indian government, why should I give my photo to the police? And in the end he broke it and said, "Because you're a Muslim and I can't describe the feeling that I was for straightening or that I was confused or whatever, it wasn't a good feeling because they're judging you based on your religion, where you're from." you are, probably your color, it's a very frustrating experience when, when, when I go to India to enjoy the country, enjoy the culture, enjoy everything and I end up having to give my photo because they think I'm a terrorist from Bangladesh.

What Is that it? At the same time I was thinking that I was white or that I had a better situation. passport or I was not Muslim, would they ask me for my photo now? I know not all of India is like that of course, but it had an impact that was a point turning point in the experience of racism, racism towards your passport, your color, really, really. Kills the mood most of the time with this experience in mind. If someone ever asked me if I would return to India, my answer would be definitely no. I would rather come to Nepal than return to India.

That's all. That's all I wanted. On racism in India, I say it was a very, very unfortunate experience. I would say that I stayed in India for a long time anyway. That's all apart from the obvious problem of racism, if you're white or have a good passport. Rishikesh is a very good place for I'm kidding. Rishikesh is a very nice place, but I suggest you stay in the mountains instead of the city. The city is too touristy and full of forced positivity. Good morning Jaipur. I feel very, very sick. Finally we reached the entrance of Jaipur.

We have very little time here, we just rented, we take the whole day, they will show us around. I didn't have time to research early, I booked the hotel, I just walked in and did whatever, but I'll have all day on this. to all ports and whenever possible and they are sane anyway let's take a look at Jaipur just enter the whole ship or city just called pink city but this thing is out there. The normal finger used to this is Rajasthani pink, which is a bit of clay. mud color and apparently if you put any color other than this the government finds you so our first stop was AMA also known as the wind paddle because there are 200 pieces to get for foreigners and 50 rupees for foreigners.

Indians arrived at the highest hour and a half and you can see the whole city from here it's really cool you can see the whole city pink orange so after we skip gentlemen why don't I don't think it's worth it for 200 rupees come on to hammer pork, it is one of the main forces in Jaipur, it is very big and yes, we will explore it. The outside area appears to have killed three, but let's go inside and see what happens. An interesting fact is that this is just not a palace I thought it was just a forest palace it is not a seemingly sent city called amber city it spreads around four square kilometers but let's go to the top I think it is much better and beautiful at the top I walked for like 15 to 20 minutes and finally reached the main place of Amber Fort for the Amber Palace it cost 500 for foreigners, well on the expensive side, but the architecture looks really beautiful, to be honest, the mountain views On that side are beautiful ancient architecture, but the thing is that I haven't explored the place yet, so let's go explore, we explore the smaller alleys and the bathrooms of this very big palace.

I'm sure we can spend another four hours here and I think this is the highest stop we can be at. If I look for stairs I go even higher, in my opinion there aren't any, it's really crazy how they were able to maintain all this to this day, even if this was hundreds of years ago, it's like the 16th century of adventure. It's not over here, now we are going to a different port or a different place, but I have no idea where we are going, only our driver is our boss today, he takes us where he takes us and we are just following the example. go there wherever the following places just go to java.

I have no idea about this place to follow our advice. The driver just stopped and checked this place out and it looks beautiful because there are like mountains around you and then you have Hall right in the middle of it. the links I think you have to get a boat to go there after hopping from one place to another it was time to get some delicious Rajasthani so we stopped at this place to eat Rajasthani food. We ordered a Rajasthani Colleen, also an idea for the chef, sweet and spicy please. one of the shoe itself, we just received a main plate and this looks like this, soldiers, let me tell you that unfortunately we didn't finish yesterday because halfway through our day trip I got very sick, so I decided not to record everything as you saw .

I went for lunch but unfortunately there was a scam at lunch, it was later explained that he took away the driver who was trying to scam us everywhere. There were a lot of scams involved yesterday and I think this is a very, very good gateway to scams in India. So in India there are many scams starting from lower small scam to mid level scam and up to high scam so I will tell you some scams to consider or not. Don't be completely fooled as a tourist by a small scam. Do you have people trying to sell you things?

It is very normal that they are only looking for clients. Sometimes they can be too aggressive. It bothers a lot of people, but that's how it is. It's not that crazy, you have to remember that as a tourist you will be charged a higher price and it is very easy to deal with the scam. If you're interested in buying, all you have to do is look at it, ask the price, and then walk away slowly. shaking your head as you walk away the price will keep going down, that's a really good way to deal with it and if you don't want to buy it I know it seems rude but trust me it works just to do this. go on a gray getaway like shooting it's a little rude but that's what you have to do to survive now for the three high level scam myths you have the Tor scam you have the food scam and you have the scam transportation, the real scam is a mid level scam where they take you on a full day tour or something where you book a complete tour package and at the end of the package they take you to a place to shop, a lot of people fall for under pressure and actually buys things.

You don't have to buy, just keep a plain face and do nothing and you can survive the next medium to high level scam: the food scam. This is a scam that happened to us in Rajasthan, where we went to a store. for lunch and when we asked for the menu, there was no menu but we have this special thali, okay sure let's get the SPECIAL. Solly, stupidly, even being in India for a month, we fell in love when we went to pay and we're. How much is this? And they said it was 350, but on the wall it was 250 and then it appears on many from below and it's like, look, it's 350.

I think before you didn't have a menu, but now everything is a Suddenly, it has many now. This won't happen often in the restaurant. These are rare cases, but it happens, so be careful and always ask for the menu. If they have a menu, tell them to display the prices on the wall or ask them before ordering. What the hell is the price? Because after eating the food, you only have to pay what they ask you and the last scam is one of the biggest, and that is France. Transportation is a very big industry in India and many people get scammed because of it.

For example, a tour of Jaipur at our hotel was 500 rupees when he went with the driver, he says it is 900 rupees. Now I've planned the day and you're like, you know what the fuck? Take 800 rupees and I really didn't want to bother because I was really sick but this is what they tell you a low price and you go to the place and it's a higher price so that's really bad and it took the driver every 10 seconds to try to take us to your store. You can check? You can check? No, I don't want to visit your store.

Other transportation scams sell you a ticket, like they sell you a good class with a bed and you go there and it's just a bad class with a bed, that's a scam, you have to be very careful. Always make sure you check online with different travel agencies before booking at the first store you come across because in India you have to travel a lot and you really don't want to fall for the scam because you may lose a lot of money and last. What I mean is that you can always haggle. I didn't know you can haggle at shipping stores and guess what you can haggle.

You can haggle literally everywhere. It's just a city of bargaining. You have to haggle if you want to save money anyway. It was a scam, luckily our hell is like a three minute walk from one of the Taj Mahal interests anyway, here's the thing: if you have a credit card, pay with a card, there are little to no people in the credit card line and it's much faster they got the tickets and now they're lining up to go. Nothing has changed since it was built except that according to the change, the British were not rebuilt or renovated, like almost all other heritage sites in India, just to move on.

They didn't do anything to him, he's still the first. They built it, it's still perfect. Also, during times of war they used to cover it so that enemies couldn't see it, so it has been protected for a long time and is still visible. However, the Taj Mahal disappeared, it was a sight to see from the grand entrance to the garden and of course the great white marble, the feeling cannot really be described, it was brilliant, it was huge and beautiful, truly one of the Wonders of the World. The end of our Taj Mahal site for Taj Mahal but now let's take a look, there are many places where you can visit Agra such as Agra folding burst tomb and many more but the haggling at this place was too much at this point for me I just wanted to stay home anyway, it was time to eat but this time not in a restaurant so I tried Indian street food for the first time.

I tried to avoid it all over India, but I finally tried it and it's called papa tikki or something like that. Yesterday we were shot again on camera today because it's too dark to film yesterday. It's amazing, I don't know what it's completely made of, but let's try it again. There is so much sauce in this onion, cheese and potatoes that it is mixed with. things but it's like a combination of bittersweet. I see it all together, it's crazy, but it's really good, so if you come to India, make sure you try this. Spend the next few days in India's capital, New Delhi.

I didn't really do anything exciting there. but that's the end of my crazy and wild journey in India, to be honest, I don't know how to end it. India is a country that you cannot completely love or hate. It has to be a mix of both if someone went to India. and I told you hey, I totally loved it, he's lying at the same time, if he says he totally hates it, he's lying, the country is too diverse and big to totally hate or love it, you can find people from all walks of life life different. culture different language India is a completely different world anyway thanks for watching