What was your shortest trip to India |
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Jan 24th, 2006, 22:14
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| anxious to get to India  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Arizona
Posts: 17
| What was your shortest trip to India What is the shortest length of time you spent in India? With regard to jet lag, was it too short? I want to go back, but don't have another free month, so I considering a quick week from the US. |
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Jan 24th, 2006, 22:21
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| Chakravartan  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Canada
Posts: 750
| I've made three trips of three weeks each. I don't get jet lag, but they were still too short because it usually costs me a week just to get from the fly-in point to where I want to go and back again.
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Jan 24th, 2006, 22:24
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| On the Road, wherever I am  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: in the mountains of Idaho . . . now the red-rock plateau of southern Utah
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 | My shortest trip to India was ten weeks: seven weeks in Rajasthan, three in Dharamsala, one day in Delhi. |
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Jan 24th, 2006, 22:50
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| Up in the hills with my head in the clouds...  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: India/UK
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| I flew to India for a dinner party last year. Arrived in Mumbai on early on 24th November and got to the party in Ooty ½ an hour before the party started! I wanted to stay longer, but departed on 5th December after being in India for only 12 days. It was my parents' 55th Wedding Anniversary, so it was worth the trip!
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Jan 25th, 2006, 00:12
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Germany
Posts: 149
| Short trips The first time we went to India, we only had two weeks vacation, Everyone thought we were mad, but we figured it was better than staying home - and we were 100% right! I told this to someone recently who told me he flew from Germany to Thailand for 4 days and found it very relaxing to be away from the kids screaming for attention and "buy me this", etc. He read a book in peace on the plane, got some sun on the beach and good food in the evening and thought it was altogether a very smart idea. I'd do the same for Delhi! |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 00:22
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: May 2004 Location: UK
Posts: 2,134
| Most of the packaged tourists to Goa go for 2weeks,,,,,,,,,,, |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 00:58
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| Naan.tering Nabob  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap
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| On one arrival to India when I got to the hotel there was an urgent message waiting for me to fly to Taipei to help with a technical issue. I delayed it as long as I could to get some of that good Indian food, get my head together, and book a flight. So Left only 4 days after my arrival. From Taipei I had to fix a software problem in Sydney - so then flew to Australia after only 3 days in Taipei. After a week in Sydney, I had to fly back to Toronto for some urgent meetings. Spent a week in Toronto and then flew back to India arriving 3 weeks after my original touchdown! Don't really recommend those whirlwind tours but it's fun looking back on it now and those Frequent flier points are a nice bonus.
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Jan 25th, 2006, 02:27
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| Nothing is illegal until you get caught~  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cleveland, Ohio USA
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 | 10 days....including travel time....I'd do it again in a second, any time is better than no time. Next time I do go I will take my kids with me so I'm not missing them every second and maybe I will stay a week or two longer. 
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Jan 25th, 2006, 03:11
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Brisbane Australia
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| While I would have loved much longer (like three months), three weeks as a first-timer which was enough time for us to acclimatise and travel from Mumbai-Delhi via Udaipur, Jodphur, Jaipur, Agra. I think trying to do anything more would have left us exhausted - too many experiences in too short a time!! But I think I could take a one week visit (maybe a stopover on the way to Europe) if I was staying in one place and not trying to cram everything in. |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 03:20
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| मेरा नाम  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Switzerland
Posts: 500
| shortest trip, hmmmmm Oh yeah, that was for about 2 days. Ok, it was only for transit  |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 03:31
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The US
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| Total travel time from US was one week, so that would be around 3 days in India. Quick business trip to Chandigarh, and back home. No time to worry about jet lag.
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Jan 25th, 2006, 06:40
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| This is just a cameo appearance  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| Many working people find it difficult to take more than two weeks for any one trip. My times in India, when I had a job, were about 10 to 14 days each. |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 07:00
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| Member  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Yangon, MYANMAR
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| Shortest trip to India : 3 weeks business trip in 2003. Longest trip : 38 years, 9 months, 17 days - from birth till September 2001, when I left the shores of India for the first time ! 
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Jan 25th, 2006, 09:39
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| re-member  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: revolving around the sun standing still
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| my shortest was a month. it worked out alright, though i was in no way ready to leave when the time came to go. i bought a special ticket that required only a one month stay. now, i would not even consider going for less than three months, though my next stay will be at least six.
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Jan 25th, 2006, 10:17
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia
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| My next trip will be my shortest - 3 and a bit weeks. It was going to be shorter, about 2 weeks, but I quit my job and can afford to take an extra week over there before worrying about a new job If I had the money and limited time though, I'd still go for a week - better than nothing! |
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