Infinite I said:
Im off to India in January for three weeks, always wanted to go now its happening I cant wait! Im going to goa for a week then getting the train to kerala for a week then back to goa. Ill ask my dad about thailand as hes been before, would love to hear if anyone has any tips for India? Cheers
cool, yeah ive been there, got plenty of tips
Be careful with drugs, it can end your trip in a very bad way. You may get away with baksheesh (bribe) or you may be the unlucky one and be the example that they want to show they are doing their job to the bosses or the news, and really go to prison. Better not risk it!
As for places, I suggest you go to Anjuna, maybe a bit overhyped, there's plenty of fake hippies and what not, but its still very cool. You can potentially rent a room there and could be good. I suggest you rent a bike, but please please be careful driving! Always use honk in every corner! Do not stay on the south part of the baga river, at baga beach, thats for mainstream tourists! I think staying around the anjuna/vagator area is muuuch better.
For renting bikes, (highly recommended) a lot of people will be able to find for you, but I suggest, if you can find, to talk to the petrol lady in a little wooden shack in one of the small streets just next to the church near to the orchard stores (little market where you can get good cheese and stuff like this). She wont steal you (much
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) like many others do
You really MUST chill out and eat often at the german bakery in anjuna. Its a super cool place with amazing food of all kinds (vegetable curry, aloo gobi, all kinds of breads like naan, chapati, all of their juices, etc etc), and theres many nice travelers hanging out there.
Having a bike is really the way to go, to be mobile.. Then you can go have breakfast in chapora, in Scarlet's.. Ask for a fruit salad with icecream
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Dont worry about the dirty looks or the cockroaches, its awesome hahaha. Careful with cows passing by, they might want a little taste of your fruit bowl
I also suggest you make the trip to Arambol. Its also a kinda famous beach for hippies.. On the right side of the beach (looking towards the sea), you can go through this little town and around the rocks to get to a more empty beach with a lake and some hills surrounding it, its nice! Also sometimes there are parties around arambol.
In any case, the way to check for parties is to be driving around and just ask people if they know of anything. Ninebar, a super commercial trance bar that ends kinda early, is a place for sure music and meeting some people, asking for parties later on, but there are LOADS of police there and its really commercial music.
There might be party in hilltop too, its on the way to nine bar. There are other places like bamboo forest and so on, but you'll just have to ask people and see whats happening. Many parties will end with police, others will be very commercial, and there might, if you're lucky, be some super awesome party at some point. Just be driving around, dont expect much and you might have fun.
If you're in goa, please make a side-trip to Hampi. Its in karnataka, but not too far, like a night bus away (crazy bus lol). You'll REALLY thank me for this tip if you go there, I promiss.. Such a surreal scenario with some amazing temples and monkeys in the middle of some crazy hills made of huge bolders.
I dont know man there are so many things I could probably say, but for now I'll leave it at this and if I remember something else important Ill tell you