Viajar a India 💖 Consejos para Viajeros ✈️
Tips for traveling to India, a country that leaves no one indifferent.
This video is focused on practical advice, especially for independent travelers.
Remember that in LosViajeros.com, in the India forum, you have all the necessary information to organize your trip: https://www.losviajeros.com/foros.php... ✈️
This video, like most of ours, is divided into chapters. In it we will discuss practical topics: visas, how to get to the country, currency exchange, security and scams, transport and roads, accommodation, gastronomy, climate and its main tourist attractions.
The first piece of advice for anyone visiting India is to be patient: chaos is normal.
When it comes to traveling with children, each family is different. Mine visited India for the first time when they were five and seven years old.
Visa for India
Indian bureaucracy has improved compared to previous years with the online visa, but it is still not exactly an optimal process.
How to get to India (Airports)
Most travelers arrive in India by plane, through one of the many modern international airports: Delhi and Bombay, Chennai, Calcutta, Bangalore or Hyderabad. Its airports serve as a stopover to Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
Currency, change and cards
The currency of India is the Indian rupee. In many places they do not accept bank cards and this makes it necessary to carry some cash in rupees in your wallet.
SIM card for mobile
The most popular operators with the best coverage in India are: Vodafone Idea, Airtel India and Jio.
SIM cards are easy to buy in almost any corner of India, from the airport to any corner kiosk.
Security and Scams
India is a relatively safe country in terms of physical security. Foreigners do not usually suffer violent crimes except on rare occasions. There is usually tourist police in the most emblematic places.
The little thymus is a cancer so deeply rooted in Indian society that even Indians themselves suffer from it.
Health in India and vaccines
The sanitary and hygienic situation in India is very irregular. A visit to Foreign Medicine is more than recommended.
Transport in India
The railway network was a British heritage and reaches almost anywhere. A new high-speed train network links the main cities.
Roads and Driving in India
Public or private highways are spreading across the country.
Accommodation in India
India offers accommodation of a very varied range. Hotel search engines Booking and Agora are common among Western travelers.
There are quite a few scams and deceptions with Indian hotels. Be careful with new establishments or those with few reviews.
Climate in India
India's climate is greatly affected by both extreme heat and monsoons. The monsoon is a time of torrential rains. Roads may be closed and it may rain heavily for several days in a row.
Indian Gastronomy
Indian cuisine is world famous. We are not going to dwell much on that aspect. Surely you know many of their most famous dishes and condiments.
Most restaurants are 100% vegetarian.
Agencies to travel to India
You can go to India with a Spanish agency or tour operator, with a local agency or driver, or on your own with your backpack. You can consult our forum.
Attractions of India
It is impossible to list the tourist attractions of India, so here we will make a brief summary by area.
Northern India is a melting pot of cultures and the area that is usually visited on the first trip to India. Almost all travelers include the Delhi Agra Jaipur triangle and its countless architectural gems in their northern itinerary.
Rajasthan is a fairy tale region of one thousand and one nights, with desert cities such as Bikaner or Jaisalmer, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Pushkar. Benares is the sacred city of the Hindus.
South India preserves the essence of the country with wonderful temples that are still alive, flooded by the devotion of the faithful. The cities and temples of Tamil Nadu like Madurai, Trichy, Kanchipuram...
The cities on the coast tend to have English influence (Chennai and Bombay), Portuguese (Cochin or Goa), Dutch, French (Pondicherry)... The south has extensive beaches and magical experiences, such as sailing the channels of the Backwaters (Kerala). .
The area of India close to the Himalayan mountains and has Tibetan and Nepalese influence and a cooler climate.
#travelindia #india #tipsindia #indiatravel
00:00 Travel to India
05:35 Geography
09:46 Visa for India
11:11 Airports
12:01 Currency and cards
14:13 Mobile SIM card
15:29 Security and Scams
18:05 Health and vaccines
19:33 Transportation
20:02 Roads and Driving
22:01 Agencies and drivers
24:33 Accommodation
29:29 Weather
30:50 Gastronomy
33:57 Attractive
34:13 North India
35:48 South India
37:04 Himalayas
38:07 Farewell