Weirdest place in India?

Brisso · Aug 29th, 2007, 09:24

Down a basement near Main Ghat in Benares, sitting circled by four heavy mafia gentlemen ...

New-South-Welshman · Aug 29th, 2007, 13:10

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Originally Posted by GauhatiBoy

Goa definitely. Not the tradidional Goa but the naked hippies and the drugs there.

I was shocked to see naked people there (but as a teenage boy, I also liked seeing naked women). That was so weird, I mean in western countries there are places where it's permitted, nothing wrong with that I guess, but very striking in Goa. Plus these people were doing standing-on-their-heads "yoga" naked,and all in public. And a guy with an English accent selling "fresh apple hash cake" and people asking if I wanted to buy heroin. That is weird to me no matter what country and especially in India. And I had a couple things stolen there, presumably from these beach dwellers. A comb and a water bottle. That beach was wonderful for the most part as I pretended those strange people weren't there. It really was wonderful but for that stuff. That was 29 years ago.

Sounds like culture shock. Haha. Yeah, that's heaps weird a guy selling heroin out in the open like that, but I guess nowadays it wouldn't happen. Or can someone prove me wrong?

shashank.aggarwal · Aug 29th, 2007, 13:14

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Originally Posted by Brisso

Down a basement near Main Ghat in Benares, sitting circled by four heavy mafia gentlemen ...

how did you recognize them to be mafia ??

Piscesman · Aug 30th, 2007, 04:36

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Originally Posted by global_yatri

what would "goa finished" look like - every inch of the beaches occupied by tourists? hmm - yup, that would be the magic of goa finished anyway

He he, I agree. The 'finished' bit is the way it was originally told to me.

GauhatiBoy · Aug 30th, 2007, 07:18

Just a little bit before I left India, was touring with a friend. We were travelling 5th class everything, high school kids. Since the weather was mild there in Goa, we slept on park benches and actually got a pretty good night's sleep until . .

A pig was slaughtered right close to us. We were sleeping where the Saturday market was to open in the morning. Imagine an alarm clock times 100, at 5 AM. Just wasn't ready for that at all

Then there was my experience in France, but that's for another site.

kalbarri · Oct 3rd, 2007, 12:48

[quote=himadventures;81059]It is concrete jungle with no soul at all QUOTE]

that is very depressing to hear. i lived 9 months there in the seventies and it was a magical and stunningly beautiful place with mostly wooden buildings. hashish was common and gunja grew even opposite the police station but no hard drug scene and no insensitive dance parties.

kalbarri · Oct 3rd, 2007, 13:20

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Originally Posted by Mangogirl

I think Puri is a weird place. There's lots of black magic going on in the fishing village and it's soooo hard to leave that place. First time I went there I only stayed for one week but the second time I stayed for a whole month! And it's not much to see or to do there (except for going to the bhang shop

)

i stayed with a swami near the beach at a small temple, beside a burning place (for bodies, that is) and apparently the big wigs at the huge temple in town didn't approve of him. as you say, black magic was how i interpreted the vibe too. lots of weird happenings and one of the saddhus in black, lurking around.
one night at the other end of the beach at a place called SANTANAS there was a CANCERIAN party. lots of us born under that sign were partying, not with alcohol but there was plenty of ganja. a plateful of hash cakes was put in front of me and i wasn't going to indulge but finally decided on a nibble and then, of course, another nibble until i was completely blasted and pretended i was a movie star all the way home in the rickshaw, in the early morning.
when i got back to the temple, everyone else was asleep but the enrgy there felt so freaky that i packed up and left the next day. really loved it there though and after a stint further down the coast went back for a while but rented a room in a house in the sand.

PeakXV · Mar 22nd, 2008, 10:10

I had to look up 'weird' in my 'concise oxford computer table dictionary' and it says 'queer, odd, old-fashioned, strange, incomprehensible' ..... which pretty well covers, in one way or another, every nook & cranny in the country!

Jong · Jul 13th, 2008, 07:22

Hampi, Goa, Manali, Varanasi, Pushkar.... this places are touristic.
Tourism make place weird.

Skarzan · Jul 13th, 2008, 08:20

The weirdest place in India, bar none, is India!

Of course, it goes without saying that "weirdness" is in the eye and mood of the beholder. The question just doesn't work for me. Weirdest sculpture (another thread), now that makes more sense to me.

brownboy66 · Jul 13th, 2008, 15:40

in a supermarket (with a french name) in Delhi, with a Thai friend, listening to a new zealand song over the p.a. The song was called "how bizzare".

singsub · Jul 13th, 2008, 15:56

reading this thread made me feel that during all my travels in india i was actually traveling in some other place. or i totally missed the vibe in most places i went to. i have been more than once to varanasi, manali, goa, puri, kamakhya bari - but never did i see or sense any black magic or a rampant drug scene. ganja and charas max. met sadhus yes but not agoris or hardcore tantrics. saw topless women in goa yes, but no nudies. maybe india presents a different side of itself to foreigners which is kept hidden from locals.

New-South-Welshman · Aug 5th, 2008, 09:58

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Originally Posted by brownboy66

in a supermarket (with a french name) in Delhi, with a Thai friend, listening to a new zealand song over the p.a. The song was called "how bizzare".

Ahhh by the Otara Millionaires Club. I've never see a supermarket in Delhi? Where abouts is this French named one?

brownboy66 · Aug 5th, 2008, 11:06

yep...omc

. The supermarket is Le Mache in Vasant Lok (I have yet to work out what the french part is.......)

Oct 3rd, 2007, 12:48	#66
kalbarri kalbarri Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: WESTERN australia Posts: 364	so sad.. [quote=himadventures;81059]It is concrete jungle with no soul at all QUOTE] that is very depressing to hear. i lived 9 months there in the seventies and it was a magical and stunningly beautiful place with mostly wooden buildings. hashish was common and gunja grew even opposite the police station but no hard drug scene and no insensitive dance parties.

Mar 22nd, 2008, 10:10	#68
PeakXV Naan.tering Nabob Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Abode of Glooscap Posts: 4,186	I had to look up 'weird' in my 'concise oxford computer table dictionary' and it says 'queer, odd, old-fashioned, strange, incomprehensible' ..... which pretty well covers, in one way or another, every nook & cranny in the country! __________________ We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started ...and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Don't go to India ~ Pre-trip Warnings & Misconceptions?

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brownboy66 Chicken 65 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Delhi Posts: 2,254	weirdest place... in a supermarket (with a french name) in Delhi, with a Thai friend, listening to a new zealand song over the p.a. The song was called "how bizzare". __________________ "the last meal is history - its the next one that's important" - Garfield (the cat) IndiaMike Mod Team.... just some plonker with access to the mod tools

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singsub Account Closed Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: right next door to hell Posts: 1,171	reading this thread made me feel that during all my travels in india i was actually traveling in some other place. or i totally missed the vibe in most places i went to. i have been more than once to varanasi, manali, goa, puri, kamakhya bari - but never did i see or sense any black magic or a rampant drug scene. ganja and charas max. met sadhus yes but not agoris or hardcore tantrics. saw topless women in goa yes, but no nudies. maybe india presents a different side of itself to foreigners which is kept hidden from locals. Last edited by singsub : Jul 13th, 2008 at 19:45.

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Aug 29th, 2007, 09:24	#61
Brisso Specialist muddler Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Brisbane Posts: 526	Down a basement near Main Ghat in Benares, sitting circled by four heavy mafia gentlemen ...

Aug 30th, 2007, 07:18	#65
GauhatiBoy Not sure where I'm from Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 281	Just a little bit before I left India, was touring with a friend. We were travelling 5th class everything, high school kids. Since the weather was mild there in Goa, we slept on park benches and actually got a pretty good night's sleep until . . A pig was slaughtered right close to us. We were sleeping where the Saturday market was to open in the morning. Imagine an alarm clock times 100, at 5 AM. Just wasn't ready for that at all Then there was my experience in France, but that's for another site.

Jul 13th, 2008, 07:22	#69
Jong Jong Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: between India and far East Posts: 4	Hampi, Goa, Manali, Varanasi, Pushkar.... this places are touristic. Tourism make place weird.

Jul 13th, 2008, 08:20	#70
Skarzan AsiaModern Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA Posts: 25	The weirdest place in India, bar none, is India! Of course, it goes without saying that "weirdness" is in the eye and mood of the beholder. The question just doesn't work for me. Weirdest sculpture (another thread), now that makes more sense to me.

Aug 5th, 2008, 11:06	#74
brownboy66 Chicken 65 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New Delhi Posts: 2,254	yep...omc . The supermarket is Le Mache in Vasant Lok (I have yet to work out what the french part is.......)

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