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Blinkman987 posted:Trip report title: "A Dreadful, Dreadful Place." A lot of this sounds pretty typical for the mainstream tourist drags. I'm not trying to be critical of your planning- it's super hard to get off them. I've had all those same experiences! I will say for the benefit of this thread that India can be a little different outside the places where all the tourists go. I've had amazing all you can eat thali meals for INR 5, had people welcome me to their family dinner, stayed in former palaces, cruised rivers in Kerala, attended Pro Kabaddi matches in VIP seats, and had a variety of experiences that couldn't have happened any place but India. Off the tourist drags people don't scam you really at all- I had a mechanic refuse a 20 rupee tip right after he, without prompting, tasted my fuel to tell me my oil mix was off, then cleaned and rebuilt my carburetor. Another person in the crowd around me told me I should pay him 30 rupees, and he wouldn't keep the change from a 50 rupee note. There's some wonder in India- it can just be hard to get it out.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I don't want to be too mean about this but a guy did a totally unscientific nonsense test of your car then told you he needed to do work that you didn't know you needed? You may have been more scammed than you think. It was an autorickshaw and it didn't run at all when I stopped. After he did work it ran. I'd say I got an okay deal. Also I knew it was dirty because I had been buying bootlegged fuel in Nepal the day before. thethirdman fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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