My trip to India

[RECOVERY ROOM]

Thanks for sharing that trip,Very cool.How did the people treat you.How are the prices there compared to us.

[tones2SS]

Cool pics. Thanks for posting.

[BBC69Camaro]

Thanks all for the compliments.

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Thanks for sharing....couldn't you of atleast found a cute chick for the photos?

Perhaps I'll have to say there are a lot of very beautiful women in India. They are just very petite. If you like petite women then you would be heaven. Unfortunately I like tall women, hurts less to stoop and kiss them

Originally Posted by RECOVERY ROOM

Thanks for sharing that trip,Very cool.How did the people treat you.How are the prices there compared to us.

I have never seen such hospitality, everyone was extremely polite and courteous. You can walk up to anyone on the street, ask for directions or to just chat.

Prices on just about everything other than electronics are dirt cheap.

Rickshaw ride - 100 Rupees ($2 US, around 50 rupees to the dollar)
Bullet Cart ride - 100 Rupees
2 Hour Guided tour of Taj Mahal - 100 rupees
Books on different monuments - 100 Rupees each
2 Tee shirts of Taj Mahal - 100 Rupees for both
Very nice handmade clothing - 200-400 Rupees ($4 - $8 each). Easily would sell for $50-100 each in the US.
Hand made crafts dirt cheap 200-1000 Rupees, including real marble and Jade figurines, boxes, jewelery etc.
Cheap meal around 20 - 50 rupees.
Typical meal 400-600 in a nice restaurant.
Gourmet dinner in a 5 star hotel about 1300.
Small sub-compact car (made in India) about $5000.00 US


Basically if you were an IT worker, you could afford a large house with servants in a rich neighborhood. If you manage to be in the middle class the standard of living is a lot higher over there. You could live quite well on 30000 rupees a month (typical salary for IT over there; about $600/mo). Problem is the bottom end is so much lower. I wouldn't want to be in manual labor over there (paid hardly enough to buy food).

[T-Type]

wow, you are a brave man going to india in the summer. how did you survive the heat? i have a hard time going during spring or fall. great pics! thanks for sharing.

[Theresa]

Amazing photos. Thanks for posting them.

Gotta ask:
What do you do that you were able to expereince that trip?
and
What was the optical illusion in that one picture? I couldn't see it...

[XcYZ]

Awesome pics.

[BBC69Camaro]

Thanks again for the compliments.

Originally Posted by T-Type

wow, you are a brave man going to india in the summer. how did you survive the heat? i have a hard time going during spring or fall. great pics! thanks for sharing.

It was hot in Agra (Taj) and Delhi I won't kid you. Agra was the hottest at 115f @ 80% humidity. Delhi was a bit cooler, probably 105-110 with around 70% but still. I drank lots of bottle water (as much as I could). Even at that by the end of the second day, I was kind of done with the heat and just wanted to go back to the hotel to sit in air conditioning. I can take dry heat but that humid heat is something else.

Originally Posted by Theresa

Gotta ask:
What do you do that you were able to expereince that trip?
and
What was the optical illusion in that one picture? I couldn't see it...

Im in IT, Software Architech/Manager. The company I work for has outsourced a lot of its software development to India. I was kicking off a new project.

The optical illusion was the pillar looked like it had 12 sides when in fact only had 6 sides. The closeup should show that the wavy lines make a flat side look like it has more curves than it is.

[70rs]

Thanks for sharing Ed.