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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not Indian , but if you do 5 star hotels and private transportations, India has lots to offer in terms of sightseeing (Taj Mahal, Jaipur etc and food. [/quote]

Nobody disagrees with this. There is a luxurious way to do India. But it doesn't sit well with a lot of people and they don't. want. to. go. back. if they don't have to (family). What don't you understand about that? [/quote]

Oh we understand.  Now you try and understand -  the luxurious way to do India is inexpensive compared to anywhere else in the world. However, people from rich (western) countries want to do shoestring budget travel in India, making use of infrastructure that is heavily subsidized by the Indian govt for the poorest of its people.  Then they complain.  Well, why did you go to India in the first place?   The domestic market of tourism is so huge that India is not hurting for foreign travelers.

Still don't understand it?  It is like some foreigner comes to DC, goes and eats at the homeless shelter soup kitchen and then complains that the restaurant scene in  US is pathetic.   That soup kitchen is not for tourists. [/quote]

Who is doing shoestring tours of India? Nobody on here has done that. You are projecting that that is why the bad experience. Every single person on here has mentioned that they have done it the luxurious way and they don't want to go back. No way in hell would I take a train in India. No way in hell. 
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I took a train in India and no photoshopped white men fell off the roof. It was a fine enough experience. I’ve had more stressful train experiences in Germany tbh with packed out trains, no room to move, standing room only, and then some chump with a BIKE trying to get on the train. And I’m a PP who said India was fascinating and I’d go back. I think the main issue with India is it is so NOT like the US, but it’s not pretty and familiar like Europe or clean and glamorous the way many of the Eastern Asian countries are, and a lot of American really just can’t cope with it. Like they just do not know how to process everything going on there at all times. [/quote]

Agree with all of this. I'm the poster way back who lived in India as an expat for a few years. I never EVER saw trains like this and I was looking -- because from the media, I assumed they would all be like this and they're absolutely not. India was my first time out of North America, believe it or not, and I loved it. But I also prepared myself with lots of research before we moved there. Do I want to go back? ABSOLUTELY. There was so much I didn't get to see! I never got treated poorly -- sure people tried to scam me, but you learn their game pretty fast -- and I solo traveled around the country as a blonde white woman. [/quote]

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