India Travel Guide

By The Non Fiction Author

The India Traveler's Guide to Make The Most Out of Your Trip.
You have decided to travel to India! You are about to go on a trip of a lifetime. Do you know where in India you are going? If you are just beginning to explore the options, you have opened the perfect guide book to help you narrow down your options. The subcontinent of India is vast with diverse landscapes, culture, religion, peoples and climates. It is important to first figure out what kind of vacation and experience you are looking for during your stay in India.
Are you an urbanite looking to discover the flavor and rhythm of the world’s most crowded cities? Or are you traveling to India for a deeper connection, healing and rediscovering yourself? If you are an adventurer, what exactly is the adventure you are looking for? Do you crave to be around the peoples of another culture, another time and look deep into the past or do you need a remote location? It does not matter what category you fit into, India has something for everyone from north to south and east to west. You can customize the ideal vacation to satisfy all your expectations and more in India. It just takes a little research.
Get out some paper and a pen and write out your list. It helps if you have a map at hand and maybe grab your highlighter and some strips of paper to keep the pages in this book which interest you the most. India is impressively complex, grand and mysterious. There is no way you can keep track of it all without a little assistance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Non Fiction Author
• Release date: Apr 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370992416

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India Travel Guide

The India Traveler's Guide to Make The Most Out of Your Trip

By The Non Fiction Author

Published by The Non Fiction Author

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why You Will Fall In Love With India!

Chapter 1: Welcome to India!

Chapter 2: Planning Your Trip In Advance (Itineraries, Costs, Weather)

Chapter 3: Cultural Immersion (Culture, Accent, Manners)

Chapter 4: Delhi & the North

Chapter 5: Mumbai and Central India

Chapter 6: The Himalayas of India

Chapter 7: The Northeast

Chapter 8: Kolkata (Calcutta)

Chapter 9: South India

Chapter 10: Goa & India’s Beaches

Conclusion: Have You Booked Your Ticket Yet?

Introduction:

Why You Will Fall In Love With India!

You have decided to travel to India! You are about to go on a trip of a lifetime. Do you know where in India you are going? If you are just beginning to explore the options, you have opened the perfect guide book to help you narrow down your options. The subcontinent of India is vast with diverse landscapes, culture, religion, peoples and climates. It is important to first figure out what kind of vacation and experience you are looking for during your stay in India.

Are you an urbanite looking to discover the flavor and rhythm of the world’s most crowded cities? Or are you traveling to India for a deeper connection, healing and rediscovering yourself? If you are an adventurer, what exactly is the adventure you are looking for? Do you crave to be around the peoples of another culture, another time and look deep into the past or do you need a remote location? It does not matter what category you fit into, India has something for everyone from north to south and east to west. You can customize the ideal vacation to satisfy all your expectations and more in India. It just takes a little research.

Get out some paper and a pen and write out your list. It helps if you have a map at hand and maybe grab your highlighter and some strips of paper to keep the pages in this book which interest you the most. India is impressively complex, grand and mysterious. There is no way you can keep track of it all without a little assistance.

Chapter 1:

Welcome to India!

India Highlights

One of the first tips anyone can give you if you are planning a trip to India is to pick a region; North, East, Central, the Himalayas of India or South. It goes without saying that India is an enormous country and getting around from region to region is not the easiest. A lot of what you want to see and do, as it is with travelling to most countries in the world is dependent on the time you will have. Each region will have its highlights and things to see and a lot of what you want to see and experience depends on each type of traveler. But to get you started, here are just a few reasons why most people come to India to see and experience.

• Delhi and the Jama Masjid (Great Mosque), the Chandi Chowk market and Sikh Temple. We will delve into this city a bit more in its own separate chapter.

• Mumbai. Likewise, we will have a separate chapter on Mumbai as well in a bit.

• Agra on the outer part of Delhi is known for the ‘Great Mosque’, the Masjid-i-Jahan Numa.

• The beaches of Goa are a great retreat for those in search of meditation and yoga retreats.

• The temple at Tirupati and royal tombs in Andhra Pradesh.

• Jammu and Kashmir are a bit controversial for most tourists and not everyone is comfortable visiting these areas. Here you can find more Buddist monasteries and the Shiva caves that are a popular pilgrimage destination. If these areas make you feel uneasy, you can head to Leh, the Buddist Ladakh region or Srinagar for some house-boating.

• The beaches of Karnataka in the south of India are often overlooked and Goa is typically the favored, however there are ancient ruins and a rich royal heritage. If you are looking for a yoga retreat, you can find it here, national parks, beaches and coffee plantations.

• Visit the abandoned cities of Madhya Pradesh of central India away from the congestion of the larger cities that India is recognized for today. Here you can visit national parks and see the wildlife in this side of the world and the erotic temples of Khajuraho.