I'm not going there again,,,,,,,,

kiranlal

i hate agra i been there several times may be i met wrong people , and i love Dharamsala

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Getting lost in a neighbourhoud with narrow streets in Ahemdabad, young children started to follow me. Starting with 10 ending up with 50 or 70. Started to throwing stones at me. Since I was a foreigner I thought I should take care about how to react to the children. However got nervous about keeping myself alive. Two man, standing there saw my problems and decided to help me. One taking a stick next to the door to keep the crowd back. Telling me to get away, they would keep back the children.

got a fight with a rickshaw driver about the price.

Standing on the roof of my hotel, the was a flock of black birds, circling and coming closer all the time. Finally I had to go inside since they started to attack me like in a Hitchcock movie.

about 2 months later I red in the paper that there were many people murdered in Ahmedabad, in Moslims/Hindu fight. I was not surprised, since there was something in the atmosphere of Ahmedabad which felt no good.

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camelgirl

Without the Taj Mahal, Agra would just be a horrible, dirty city. Having the Taj there makes it worse because of the stark contrast with such beauty.

But even in Agra we had a good experience many years ago. My husband got really sick with Typhoid fever right after we got there . We wound up staying for one week in Lauries Hotel and everyone was very nice. It was very scary and awful for that week, but the Doctor was nice and I have a good memory from Agra back then. Though in a recent trip, I did hate it except for the Taj.

freenote

what are peaple talking about?? I thought Agra was wonderfull. Arrived in a A/C car . had a good look at the Taj .Then left .Nice town !!!

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chapati

I don't know what I did in Thiruvanathapuram but I stayed like 5 days........And why? I still don't know Why didn't I just leave. That were 5 of the most boring days of my life . So NEVER again!!!

Wait.........I remember, I stayed there because it was most southly point of india (I thought then).......

Leith

It was my first day in India which coensided with Diwali and we had hired a car and driver to take us to Rishikesh. On the outskirts of Dehli the driver stopped the car, got out and poured a bottle of water over his head.....he was finding it hard to stay awake. With the holiday traffic and a semi concious driver I indured the most frightening eight hours of my life. So for me it's being driven on crowded Indian roads.

And as for the much maligned Agra; we got marooned there for six days and I've never had a better time. The touts haselled us on the first day, joked with us on the second,
shared philosophy on the third and played cricket on the fourth.....the're just trying to make a dollar in trying curcumstances.

Duryodhan

I was on a university-arranged study trip in India for 3 weeks. At one point, we were in New Delhi, it was evening, and 2 Dutch guys from my group and myself were bored out of our skulls. We went around trying to look for bars, discos, anything, but had no luck. The rickshaw drivers didn't know of any cool places.

So we were surfing the Internet at a cybercafe trying to find out if New Delhi had a night life. After some surfing and researching, one of us had the following bright idea: "Let's check out the local red light district". We all agreed. (We were seriously bored.)

So a rickshaw driver agrees to take us there. We arrived at this desolate and really dark and long street with stairs leading upstairs every few meters. There was nothing to see outside, so we decided to go up some stairs. We walked up to the first floor (there were, I believe 3 floors) and looked into two large rooms. Sitting inside were literally dozens of seriously hot girls. I mean, they didn't even look like prostitutes! Really well dressed and cute and not "slutty" looking. Some of them did seem disturbingly young.

Anyway, my friends start talking to/flirting with one girl while I'm just checking them all out. Suddenly two cops came downstairs from a top floor, saw us, and told us to "go inside! Go inside now!" We told them we were just looking and they got mad and told us no looking, so we went downstairs and got back into our rickshaw.

But the cops followed us, stopped our rickshaw, one cop got in next to the driver and told him to drive ahead. Then a few meters further, in a darker area, the cop got out and another cop came and told us to get out. We were seriously shitting ourselves at this point, knowing what Indian jails and cops are like. The things that go through your mind at such a time are insane. Indian cops aren't exactly the biggest or strongest of chaps, and I knew I could knock both guys out and I WAS ACTUALLY SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING IT. I can laugh about it now, but I was seriously scared.

So we refused to budge and kept arguing with the cop, asking why the hell he wanted to us get out. Finally he got sick of it and suddenly focused on me. He's like "Are you Indian?" I said yes BUT I have a Dutch passport. And I kept repeating that, thinking it would maybe discourage him from messing with me and that he'd be more likely to mess with a "local". So he kept asking and I kept repeating and explaining. Finally the other cop is like, "OK, OK, but you were born in India?" I finally conceded and said "Yes" and was waiting for the worst.

The cops just nodded and said my two friends had to pay 1000 rupees each if we wanted to leave. I had to pay nothing. My friends paid and we were on our way back to our hotel in one piece.

seventies'hippy

You could have gone to a movie, or taken an anti clockwise walk around CP . checked out some street stalls, people watched.
Bored in Delhi, never,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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TREKorDIE

Ouch,
that was quite costly just for looking at

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inca

what were cops doing in red light area?

Duryodhan

Tell me about it! Those cops make some serious money this way...

Duryodhan

We were told by the rickshaw driver on the way back that the cops pull similar stunts as they did on us and they also make use of the prostitutes for free (threatening to take them to jail if they don't comply since prostitution is illegal in India).

gollum

"jamaican" Pushkar... never again

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