Having known Delhi, the bustling capital of the country, Agra, with its wonderful Taj Mahal, having learned something more about the Sikh community in Amritsar and thoroughly explored the Rajastan we began our tour of the west coast of India that would take us to know: Mumbai, Aurangabad, Palolem, Gokarna, Hampi, Bangalore, Mysore and Kochi before reaching south!
Articles
These are the POST we have written:
- MUMBAI: THE BRITISH CAPITAL OF INDIA
- LIKE TWO CAVERNICLES ... (AURANGABAD)
- THE INDIAN HOSPITALITY
- WE SHOOT THE BARTOLA IN GOA (PALOLEM)
- GOKARNA ROCKS
- MACHINING US IN THE MYSTERIOUS HAMPI
- MYSORE, OUR LAST STAGE IN KARNATAKA
- KOCHI 4.0
The tour
This was the tour we took along the west coast of India
Map
We also leave you the interactive map with all our trip through India
Expenses
We made this stage of the trip in 26 days and our expenses were 6,88€ per person and day thus broken down:
- Food: 3,90€
- Transport: 2,39€
- Activities / Tickets: 0,34€
- Various: 0,25€
- accommodation: We did not spend anything on accommodation since they either invited us to hostels / hotels or did couchsurfing.
The best
- Meet Anita and her family and feel firsthand the Indian hospitality: they opened the doors of her house and treated us like two more of the family ... a life lesson!
- Hampi: without a doubt one of the stops that we advise on a trip to India, the temples are fabulous but it is the places that will leave you breathless.
- Sleep a few steps from Palolem beach and spend a few days between fish, sand, waves and cows on the shore!
- Spend a few days in Gokarna: the perfect mix of tradition and relaxation.
- Discover the British Mumbai, full of history and interesting corners.
- Lety have tried a sari, my mother how complicated is haha luck that Anita helped her!
- The caves of Ajanta: it is amazing to see how from the rock they made such sublime caves and sculptures.
- The gulab jamun, and they are already an obsession for us, that rich!
- We are not very museums, art galleries and historic buildings ... but the Mysore palace left us speechless.
- Do couchsurfing in Mumbai and meet Harry, a very kind and generous boy from the north!
Worst
- Arrive in Hampi at 5 in the morning, two hours ahead of schedule, dead of sleep and unable to go to any gh since they were all closed!
- The night buses that go at full speed, catch all the holes in the roads and beep constantly ... without a doubt we are more of a train!
- The poverty of Mumbai.
- That Harry, our host in Mumbai, order food at home and soon raw vegetables arrive? And we who were waiting for a pizza, a hamburger or a kebab !! Haha
- The continuous photo sessions in Hampi, we even took photos secretly (well, especially Lety!). A little is fun but there comes a time that you begin to understand why celebrities hate paparazzi!
- The prices of buses multiplied by 2 being Christmas time!
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If you are interested in India you can not miss our First novel: "Bye I'm leaving!", which tells the adventures of a first-time backpacker touring the Indian subcontinent.
What would you do if you ran out of work and without any motivation to remain anchored to a life that no longer represents you? What would you do if you suddenly found yourself with a sign that magically indicates a path you had never planned to take? Iratxe had it - more or less - of course and started out in the company of his diary to live the adventure of his life ... to India! Among scams, corners taken from theOne thousand and One Nights, tuktuks, gay bodyguards, malai koftas, butterflies in the stomach, ramming cows, sacred rivers, meditation retreats, infinite beaches, volunteers and the occasional surprise, Iratxe will learn to live in an area of 'comfort' where you will feel more alive never.
