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Damn man, you okay? Blow out?
Mr Blonde
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Personally, I think a brand new BMW is the best way to end a bad trip.
bikki_muncher69
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BMW = Be My Wife car
tomasolab
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ive only been a few places in india most of my eastern exerience is in nepal but just be sure you have a local you can trust to confer with on prices etc..
justsayknow
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Hey Bikki_Muncher,
The thing you really need to be careful of is the traffic if you'll be on a bike. India has the highest per capita road death toll in the world. Traffic has to be seen to be believed. Insane. Stay off the roads at night and make sure your horn is in good working order and as loud as hell!!!
^ This is probably the most important piece of HR info so far. I just got back from 3 weeks in south india and the traffic is insane. We saw a guy who had been on a motor bike getting carted off after a bus ran over the top of him and his bike. I dont think he survived.
Also if you do try the bhang be careful with the dose, it can take a while to hit and can hit hard depending on what they make it with.
I would love to be there for holi though. That festival looks awesome.
Also if you are far south enough see if you can get to a Theyyam ritual, really freaky to watch. They occur in southern karnataka and northern kerala during the dry season.
Freakybass
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pinkanga
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Crazy.
I went to India around 5 years ago for two weeks.
It was beautiful but also very confronting.
I wouldn't recommend Dehli city. Too noisy and crowded.
Can't comment on the south except from when my girfriend went there a few years before me.
She smoked charas, drank bung lassi (hash drinks), took K at a rave and hung out at their hotel on the beach. She loved it. She also loved the people and culture.
I went north to Srinigar and Jammu. Stayed on dahl lake (at the wrong time of year I think because the water level was low and full of rubbish). Beautiful snow covered mountains and running rivers.
On the way back to Dehli I was on the bus and started smelling weed. All along the side of the road was marijuana. When the bus stopped I stopped and picked some and hid it between the seats infront of me. Crossing the border a sniffer dog came on the bus and I started shitting myself. Luckily it didn't detect anything - must have been an explosives dog!
The roads are very dangerous. Travelling on the buses I would regularly see cars overtaking us on blind corners on the edges of cliffs.
I saw a decapitated dead body lying on the train tracks. I saw the most extreme poverty.
I couldn't get a plane out when I wanted and spent the last 2 days in my hotel room because I couldn't deal with markets and attention from all the people in the street.
You will notice alot of the men/teenagers holding hands. This is completely normal in their culture. They are not all gay.
Good luck!!! It will be amazing.
It was beautiful but also very confronting.
I wouldn't recommend Dehli city. Too noisy and crowded.
Can't comment on the south except from when my girfriend went there a few years before me.
She smoked charas, drank bung lassi (hash drinks), took K at a rave and hung out at their hotel on the beach. She loved it. She also loved the people and culture.
I went north to Srinigar and Jammu. Stayed on dahl lake (at the wrong time of year I think because the water level was low and full of rubbish). Beautiful snow covered mountains and running rivers.
On the way back to Dehli I was on the bus and started smelling weed. All along the side of the road was marijuana. When the bus stopped I stopped and picked some and hid it between the seats infront of me. Crossing the border a sniffer dog came on the bus and I started shitting myself. Luckily it didn't detect anything - must have been an explosives dog!
The roads are very dangerous. Travelling on the buses I would regularly see cars overtaking us on blind corners on the edges of cliffs.
I saw a decapitated dead body lying on the train tracks. I saw the most extreme poverty.
I couldn't get a plane out when I wanted and spent the last 2 days in my hotel room because I couldn't deal with markets and attention from all the people in the street.
You will notice alot of the men/teenagers holding hands. This is completely normal in their culture. They are not all gay.
Good luck!!! It will be amazing.
i have been to india twice, the last in december of last year for a month. some good advice on here, someone mentioned that alcohol is expensive which compared to australian prices is not true at all. usually you would pay around AUD$1-$2 for a 500ml kingfisher. you will get offered everything in the streets, especially from tuk tuk drivers. i am pretty sure they would tip off the cops pretty quickly if they sold you anything. i would rather recommend buying anything from a stall or in a resturant. always carry enough cash to bribe your way out if buying anything.
india is an amazing country, would go back for a third time in a heart beat, but from what i have heard, the jails are some of the worst in the world. be safe, have fun!
india is an amazing country, would go back for a third time in a heart beat, but from what i have heard, the jails are some of the worst in the world. be safe, have fun!
justsayknow
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^Yeah beer is usually that cheap but it isnt as widely available in many places. In some places you might have one liquor store per town and on the weekends you have to push and shove amongst a throng of people queing up at a little hole in the wall with bars on it, not the easiest to carry a carton out of. In some upmarket licensed premises you could pay the equivalent of Australian bar prices for a beer. This was in the rural south mind you and there werent very many licensed bars at all. Also I would recommend staying away from the locally produced fosters, stick with Kingfisher Premium or even the slightly stronger Kingfisher Red or Blue. Plenty of toddy bars though if you can stomach it...
On the whole, alcohol is comparitively expensive in India and not available on every street corner and restaurant like you might expect. It's really only in Goa that beer is everywhere and you get Kingfishers for $1-$2. Kingfisher is decent, most other local beers are absolute piss! In any upscale nightclub in Mumbai/Kolkata/Delhi you can expect to pay at least as much as you'd pay for a beer in a club here.
In less cosmopolitan cities, alcohol is still quite frowned upon and bars are sort of an underground thing. Even though beer is freely available in these places, you get bars full of men drinking in dark, secretive corners looking absolutely paranoid and ashamed. It's quite bizarre. Don't expect to see any women in these bars either!
Hash is common almost everywhere. Not that many Indians smoke it considering how available it is, but it's widely accepted among students. There are plenty of cool stoners among the younger generation, but most Indians think that hash is for tourists and sadhus. You'll be offered hash in almost any tourist area, the quality is excellent overall. Weed grows freely everywhere in the western Himalayan region and tourists smoke it openly (this is not necessarily a good idea, just an observation). Drugs are not everywhere in Goa like they used to be. There's still considerable drug use around within certain "scenes" which you'll discover if you hang around for long enough, but its very, very far from a hippie paradise.
Most pharmacists will still happily hand over 100 alprazolams to you - lots of fakes about though.
In less cosmopolitan cities, alcohol is still quite frowned upon and bars are sort of an underground thing. Even though beer is freely available in these places, you get bars full of men drinking in dark, secretive corners looking absolutely paranoid and ashamed. It's quite bizarre. Don't expect to see any women in these bars either!
Hash is common almost everywhere. Not that many Indians smoke it considering how available it is, but it's widely accepted among students. There are plenty of cool stoners among the younger generation, but most Indians think that hash is for tourists and sadhus. You'll be offered hash in almost any tourist area, the quality is excellent overall. Weed grows freely everywhere in the western Himalayan region and tourists smoke it openly (this is not necessarily a good idea, just an observation). Drugs are not everywhere in Goa like they used to be. There's still considerable drug use around within certain "scenes" which you'll discover if you hang around for long enough, but its very, very far from a hippie paradise.
Most pharmacists will still happily hand over 100 alprazolams to you - lots of fakes about though.
justsayknow
Bluelighter
Oh yeah I forgot to mention Puducherry enclave. They have way more relaxed liquor laws so if you are stopping in on your journeys stock up because the beer is cheaper and very easy to buy. I think it used to be a french colony or something.
And definitely this!: "Most pharmacists will still happily hand over 100 alprazolams to you"
Also I agree that some of the bars are nasty dark secretive corners, I wouldnt go in them if I was a woman either.
And definitely this!: "Most pharmacists will still happily hand over 100 alprazolams to you"
Also I agree that some of the bars are nasty dark secretive corners, I wouldnt go in them if I was a woman either.
rachamim
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Doing the whole Goa thing is tired in every way, cops everywhere along with scammers. Rajahstan, West Bengal or even better, get an Inner Line Permit and go see Aruchanal Pradesh. Opium and hash everywhere. It borders on Burma and is incredibly pristine. Until 2010 it was almost impossible to get the permit and if you did it was only for a week in a group of 7 or more (as in cheesy tour groups). Npw 2 people can apply and they are good for 30 days though Opium season is February and March. Assam to a lesser dehre (also need an Inner Line). Rajahstan requires no permit, opium is part of the local culture, but it is a desert environment. As for OTC, Benzos and toothache pills have a few mgs of codeine but it is very easy to get what you want in the larger cities.
Goa's still a nice place to visit as long as you don't go there for the drugs/raves/party/hippie crap.
OK, the beaches aren't that nice really, and the tourist scene is pretty depressing on the whole, but Goan culture (and food) is really different from the rest of India. You'll feel really relieved getting there anddiscovering how laidback everyone is after the madness of just about everywhere else (barring the remote/mountainous regions of course!)
Tribes like the Bishnoi in remote parts of Rajasthan use opium, mainly ceremonially. If you are invited to try it it is normally only in very small amounts. They are not in the habit of selling drugs to tourists, thankfully. Would love to visit AP/Assam on my next trip!
OK, the beaches aren't that nice really, and the tourist scene is pretty depressing on the whole, but Goan culture (and food) is really different from the rest of India. You'll feel really relieved getting there anddiscovering how laidback everyone is after the madness of just about everywhere else (barring the remote/mountainous regions of course!)
Tribes like the Bishnoi in remote parts of Rajasthan use opium, mainly ceremonially. If you are invited to try it it is normally only in very small amounts. They are not in the habit of selling drugs to tourists, thankfully. Would love to visit AP/Assam on my next trip!