🇮🇳India travel tips🇮🇳 for first time #travel #india #travelshorts

5 Things I wish I knew before travelling India for the first time (as a solo female traveller)

1 Unless you're in Mumbai book all your rides on apps like Uber to avoid haggling. You will need internet access for this (bonus tip: buy a local sim, internet is cheap), but the amount of time you save not having to haggle is tremendous. Also I feel it's safer than getting into a random car. If you don't have app availability you can ask the locals at your hotel/home stay what reasonable prices are, but then still you'll be charged 20-30% extra as a foreigner tourist. Accept it and move on instead of wasting time on saving $2.

2 Eating food with your hands is not only part of the culture but aids in digestion. According to ayurveda, next to smelling and tasting your food, now by adding physical touch your digestion gets one more signal that food is coming. Isn't that fascinating!

3 Homestays are more fun if you're travelling solo. First of all make sure to always stay in safe place, even if you have to pay a bit extra. But next to that, home stays offer extra safety if you're a solo female traveller staying with a family. I'm still a massive fan of Immanuel Homestay in Fort Kochi, and whenever I return to Ladakh I'll def go back to @skalzangspaldon because they both always took care of me as family. It's an extra safety measure, especially for solo female travellers, when someone is looking out for you.

4 Train tickets must be booked at least 3-2 months in advance. Don't wait for the tourist quota or tatkal tickets as they get sold out too. Book your tickets in advance, and if you need help you can always get help on @fiverr from locals helping you book the tickets.

5 If you're trying to travel India for free, you're robbing the locals of an income. Weird that I even have to mention this, but surprisingly many tourists search this specifically for India. Travel is a luxury. If you can't afford it, stay home instead of burdening locals to take care of you.

For more foreigner travel in India check out my YouTube channel with 1000's of travel vlogs, linked in bio.

#India #shortsindia #traveller #travelling #solotravel #solofemaletraveler #solofemaletravel #travelindia #indiatrip

[IvanaPerkovicOfficial]

5 Things I wish I knew before travelling India for the first time (as a solo female traveller)

1 Unless you're in Mumbai book all your rides on apps like Uber to avoid haggling. You will need internet access for this (bonus tip: buy a local sim, internet is cheap), but the amount of time you save not having to haggle is tremendous. Also I feel it's safer than getting into a random car. If you don't have app availability you can ask the locals at your hotel/home stay what reasonable prices are, but then still you'll be charged 20-30% extra as a foreigner tourist. Accept it and move on instead of wasting time on saving $2.

2 Eating food with your hands is not only part of the culture but aids in digestion. According to ayurveda, next to smelling and tasting your food, now by adding physical touch your digestion gets one more signal that food is coming. Isn't that fascinating!

3 Homestays are more fun if you're travelling solo. First of all make sure to always stay in safe place, even if you have to pay a bit extra. But next to that, home stays offer extra safety if you're a solo female traveller staying with a family. I'm still a massive fan of Immanuel Homestay in Fort Kochi, and whenever I return to Ladakh I'll def go back to @skalzangspaldon because they both always took care of me as family. It's an extra safety measure, especially for solo female travellers, when someone is looking out for you.

4 Train tickets must be booked at least 3-2 months in advance. Don't wait for the tourist quota or tatkal tickets as they get sold out too. Book your tickets in advance, and if you need help you can always get help on @fiverr from locals helping you book the tickets.

5 If you're trying to travel India for free, you're robbing the locals of an income. Weird that I even have to mention this, but surprisingly many tourists search this specifically for India. Travel is a luxury. If you can't afford it, stay home instead of burdening locals to take care of you.

For more foreigner travel in India check out my YouTube channel with 1000's of travel vlogs, linked in bio.

[subratmohapatra]

For long journey you can say advance booking needed for train.Not required for short distance.

[mahenderpalsingh]

All indian watching video🫣, foreigners r still untouched

[namrathaprabhu]

She is wearing mangalsutra 😮woww.. appreciate it..❤😊

[jitt]

So genuine feedback. Respect from India

[Green_Earth]

You Must Visit Our Temples The Ancient One

[Whoareyou]

Mam please come to north east India ( Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal, meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur)❤❤❤❤

[theprincechandrayan]

Thanks for showing the bright side of India.

[varaprasad]

It is a good massage to foreign travellers to travel in India

[narayanr]

Beautifully said esp the last point! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[devendraarney]

We will be seeing 1 million subscribers soon on this channel ❤ Keep it up!

[Tiwari_Anand]

Yeah if you are visiting in festive season you have to book train ticket months before but on normal days booking a week before is okk
No issue is there ❤❤

[VarshaKukreja-mxpc]

You have a tatkal system if you don't have advance train ticket bookings. Tatkal booking can be done a day prior to your actual travel date around 10:00 am or 11:00 am

[dhanrajmohan]

God bless you my friend ❤. Nice to see you. Great message to humanity ❤.

[manojpatil]

Flexible travel arrangements can be made at any given time, off course they come with extra cost but you will reach the destination as per plan thats for sure🤘🤘🤘🤘

[stardust]

Very Useful Thanks for the share 👍❤️ I'm Indian and follows your channel and destinations 😀

[praveendjkumar]

I love my india im indian the beautiful country please respet to india thank you jai hind jai bharat🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳❤🇮🇳

[ashikihsan]

Hello Ivana, I wish you a lovely tour in India ♥️♥️

[aaditijoshi]

One more thing i.e. if your travelling for the first time in India, please dont force yourself to eat with hands.The locals know you're not indian and will hardly ever complain.Enjoy.