Road trip through India

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Permalink Reply by Anil on November 23, 2011 at 4:55pm

First timers to India tend to hit three cluster of regions/activities. 

 

1. Golden Triangle - Delhi, Agra jaipur.
2. Kulu, Manali & Dharamsala 
3. Goa, Kerala

 

Assuming they are going to Goa for raves and R&R (say a few days), then in the remainder of time left, They could cover Agra, then go to Jaipur, Stop off at Pushkar, Udaipur, detour to Mt. Abu, Ghandinagar, Ahmedabad, Mumbai. 

 

From there to Murud, Mahableshwar, and onwards to Goa.

Hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Bardwell on November 27, 2011 at 12:14am

Thanks for the suggestions Anil.  I'll definitely pass them on to him. 

 

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Permalink Reply by Taryn on December 1, 2011 at 11:16am

hi there! In India now...my suggestion would be the following:

Delhi 

Agra (1 day, just to see the Taj Majal)

Jaipur 

Ajmer (Pushkar is what you want to see there...small, quaint town)

Jodhpur

Udaipur

(the road between Udaipur and Mumbai is not very good and there's not too much between the two; they should look into a direct train or flying which can be very cheap--kingfisher, jet airways are the two best airlines*)

Mumbai

*If they have only 2 weeks, they should actually consider taking the train everywhere, instead of driving. It's VERY inexpensive (especially if you do the 3rd class compartments, which are perfectly fine) and much faster than driving (the roads can be a bit hellish).

I have tips for Delhi, Agra and a few of the other places on my blog, http://www.wanderista.com

Good luck!!

Taryn

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Doug Bardwell on December 1, 2011 at 11:06pm

Thanks Taryn,

I'll definitely pass along the suggestions and have him check your blog.

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Permalink Reply by Anil on December 3, 2011 at 6:59am

Interesting blog..

They are on their honeymoon - Doing a general compartment train travel is for another occasion :)

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