Quote: (03-02-2013 06:34 PM)GameTheory Wrote:
Quote: (02-12-2013 08:20 PM)Mersault Wrote:
Quote: (02-12-2013 07:26 PM)GameTheory Wrote:
Quote: (02-11-2013 11:50 PM)Cyclone Wrote:
My indian friend (actually from Nepal) told me she want to some club with some of her cousins and chicks got really wild there. I.e. girls would be hitting on guys, aggressively, and they were the white-skin types that would sneak out of their parents' homes at midnight and stuff.
That type of scene is out there - you just can't find it as a tourist (maybe a student, or intern)
name of club and location?
Quote: (02-12-2013 10:29 AM)Mersault Wrote:
... I almost died there....
OMG what happened? where you attacked ?
No, i wasn't attacked. The story isn't that interesting, and i won't embellish it for the sake of the forum, so i won't bore you with it.
Suffice to say, I became ill (a type of virus) and almost died. Not to say i was resuscitated, no, i wasn't flat lining, it wasn't dramatic, but had i not sought help and stumbled into a hospital i would have soon died.
Anyway. Reading back through the posts on here you'd be tempted to think that anybody reading this who hadn't been to India would be put off going. I'd like to stake a counter claim. Go. By all means go.
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any recommendations for a complete newby to India? i know of Goa, but are there any other parts that won't get me infected and killed by some exotic strain of virus ?
I'm not sure what you are after. If you want adventure, begin in Rajasthan and work your way north towards Amritsar. The final part of the journey will most likely require coach / bus. It is a long way but for much of it trains should connect you via Delhi or maybe even Chandigar. It can be quite dangerous up in the far north east. It is tribal. Act accordingly.
If you want Wes Anderson style traveling go to see the ghats in Varanasi and work your way north east towards Nepal. You will see plenty of other westerners doing this type of route (3 or 4 per 1000 people each train) and some of those yoga ashram chicks are easier than yoghurt. If you manage to get all the way to Kathmandu (pretty easy and straightforward to get to) then you might as well venture into the Himalayas. Find yourself a team to go with and bang the chicks on the way up and way down. If you are under 40 and in decent shape you won't need a guide or porter. Make sure your insurance covers you for Nepal.
Goa is pretty lame. Best part about it is the beaches but even these aren't that great compared to other countries. Plenty of Scandinavian / American / Canadian / German types on a backpacking year out who think they are in the coolest place on earth and down to bang. Banging in Goa is relatively straight forward if you have any type of effective game to work on 18-24 year old students. Quality of chick is pretty 'meh' though.
Much of the south is pretty lame. Some might tell you to go to Kerala. Anybody with an interest in social anthropology will tell you this place is fascinating. In a sense it is. In a typical sense though, it is a huge dump. The amount of rubbish that people spew about places like Fort Cochin or whatever it is called makes me lose faith in human judgement. Eh. Of course, there is perspective, each to their own, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so forth, yes, but, also, there is an aesthetic standard that connects to language and enables us to make sense of words like 'nice' and 'beautiful'. If you throw it around so easily and say, well, yeah, forget about it.
Dude. I don't know what you are after in India. You mention not becoming ill, well, I don't know. You might become ill anywhere. Nowhere in India is cleaner than somewhere else really. Ok, one part of Mumbai is cleaner than another, for example, but, to a westerner, well, it is all dirty. If you are scared of being ill, then don't go.
If you only want to bang Indian chicks then go to London. If you want to bang Scandinavian backpackers then go to La Paz and pretend you're Jewish and just out of the army. If you want adventure and, basically, to pass time enjoyably (after all, that is all that adventure amounts to, to me) then go to India and take trains all around the country. Anything specific, just PM me and i will let you know what i know.