What is the chief hazard of India travel ??? |
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| Vendors, drivers (in short, HECKLERS) |     | 25 | 22.52% |
| Pollution, fumes, beggars. |    | 12 | 10.81% |
| Filth, lack of hygine, risk of disease. |    | 36 | 32.43% |
| Chaos, confusion and the lack of a proper "system" in almost all offices/agencies. |    | 10 | 9.01% |
| Uncertainty and lack of puntuality in all modes of transport. |    | 4 | 3.60% |
| Starers, "grabbers", oglers and "100s of stupid question askers". |    | 13 | 11.71% |
| Others (please comment to explain what it actually is) | | 11 | 9.91% |
| Voters: 111. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Dec 30th, 2004, 16:34
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| Sentient Being  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Australia
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| The traffic and roads...I've read about it and the killer roads and traffic scare me - I'm don't care about the hecklers - that's just the way things are in India. |
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Dec 30th, 2004, 16:37
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| Honorary Mod  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: McLaren Vale, South Australia
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| "Drivers / hecklers?" (?) or "uncertainly / punctuality"? I would just say "road and traffic dangers"
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Dec 30th, 2004, 20:47
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| only about a fifth of people who are casting a vote , are also adding a comment  ( |
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Dec 30th, 2004, 21:06
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| newbie-wallah Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: MI - USA
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| I almost put hecklers but I went with risk of disease. Hecklers are definitely the biggest annoyance but I think risk of disease is a bigger hazard. Even if you stick to the posh areas your food is still being prepared by people who don't live in particularly hygenic circumstances. There are endless stories of people getting sick even though they only ate in fancy hotels. |
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Dec 30th, 2004, 22:04
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Southampton UK
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| I've ticked the health factor also as both Caroline and I have both managed to pick up some bugs (one serious) on our last two visits. Perhaps as we get older our immune systems are going down a bit. Touts are a nuisance but not health threatening. I would like to see more women working in the catering business as I think they would be more careful in the matter of personal hygiene. |
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Dec 30th, 2004, 22:51
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Dec 30th, 2004, 22:53
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| Bulk Carrier  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Chennai
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| To me, the biggest hazard is an upset tummy, bad loos and no water...all tied up.
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Dec 31st, 2004, 03:17
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| its not very hazardous to add a line, is it !!!  come on everyone,,, this is my very first thread... pls find something bad to say about your india trip and type it here...  |
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Dec 31st, 2004, 05:33
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| Maha Guru Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: The OC
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| Okay, seriously; everyone in our "group" suffered from respiratory problems from the air pollution in the bigger cities. |
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Dec 31st, 2004, 05:47
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| well sorry everyone for all the various hazards they encountered while in india.... guess one needs to pass some test or the other, or pay a price in some way or the other, before they can discover this sub-continent. all i hope, is that they go back thinking, that despite the hazards, "IT WAS WORTH IT!!" as for skell... i know.. its a problem for us too... one suggestion... try to explore the cities in early morning if you can, that way you can breathe fresh early morning air and also beat the office time traffic and fumes. also another good time slot is mid-day... say between 11-5 on weekdays...,just before the "homeward bound" office workers start restoring ...insanity, to our city roads again. |
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Dec 31st, 2004, 17:01
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| i was reading the archieves.... could monkeys be one of the main hazards in india? i noticed that there were basically 2 types of monkeys... one with black faces and the other with red butts |
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Dec 31st, 2004, 21:36
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Jan 1st, 2005, 00:16
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Jan 1st, 2005, 06:15
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| Member  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Midwest USA
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| just got back two weeks ago from my first encounter. I voted for pollution and fumes as I just couldn't get over the lack of available oxygen when riding around in the tuktuk! The hygiene and filth I can overcome, but without a canister of oxygen at my side the fumes are overwhelming. You are right Bengal about choosing your times to explore in the cities. Ranakpur was a breath of fresh air, literally, after other places. I also really hated the fact that the touts caused me to become a bit hostile, non-speaking, to some Indians that truly wanted to just speak some english. I ended up having a 5 hour discussion with a young guy in Delhi that was wanting to better his english in order to get an outsourcing job..what a hoot. Overall, none of it, the fumes, filth, touts overbearing Pushkarians or whatever will dissuade me from my next trip to India! |
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Jan 1st, 2005, 06:32
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| "Overall, none of it, the fumes, filth, touts overbearing Pushkarians or whatever will dissuade me from my next trip to India!" >> india seems to have claimed another victim. you are most welcome. please do come as often as you can. hopefully the pollution will have lessened a bit by then what with the various city municipal corporatons enforcing stricter (as if they were strict b4 lol) emmision standards and phasing out the old diesel-guzzling & fume-spewing buses with newer ones. 2 things.. was it a rickshaw or a tuk-tuk you rode? in india they arnt called tuk-tuks . and which ranakpur are you talking about? the one i passed through in rajasthan on the way from jodhpur to udaipur surely is no place to visit !! must be another i dont know of :P |
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