{"id":1023,"date":"2019-01-17T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:07:15","slug":"what-should-i-know-if-i-want-to-travel-across-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/what-should-i-know-if-i-want-to-travel-across-india\/","title":{"rendered":"What should I know if I want to travel across India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1024 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/veg-non-veg.png\" alt=\"Veg Non Veg\" width=\"642\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/veg-non-veg.png 642w, https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/veg-non-veg-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/veg-non-veg-370x204.png 370w, https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/veg-non-veg-600x331.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indian people are very welcoming!<\/li>\n<li>Indian people will want to take a picture with you. (Yes, I was sweating\u2026No, they were not.)<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re vegetarian, it\u2019s a slice of heaven\u2013there\u2019s plenty of vegetarian food because there are many vegetarians there, and the food is awesome! The restaurants have signs posted outside saying\u00a0<b><i>Veg<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<b><i>Non-Veg<\/i><\/b>, etc. so it\u2019s easy to tell if you\u2019ll be able to eat there.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMany Hindus are vegetarian\u201d which is not correct. There are approximately one billion Hindus in India, and I\u2019ve seen data to suggest roughly 1\/3 are vegetarian. Therefore,\u00a0<i>there are likely more vegetarians in India than there are people in the USA<\/i>. So by US standards, where perhaps 5% of the population is vegetarian, India really shines when it comes to the availability of vegetarian food!<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s an assault on the senses. This is not necessarily a negative. Beautiful sights, wonderful aromas of food and spices, dazzling colors, city sounds, etc.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a study in contrasts. In the US, we\u2019re used to poorer parts of town being somewhat separated from the richer parts \u2013 in India I\u2019ve seen expensive new condominiums right next to homeless folks living in tents and bathing in public.<\/li>\n<li>The traffic is\u00a0<i>crazy<\/i>. I wouldn\u2019t drive there if you paid me. Indian drivers do just fine, with lots of near misses and what seems like aggressive driving to us foreigners (sometimes it\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0aggressive, and I\u2019ve seen people get out of their cars and confront other drivers, but from what I hear that is rare), but if you transplanted a bunch of foreigners in India and forced them to drive, the foreigners would surely cause accidents!<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t eat the street food. It smells great, but it\u2019s an easy way to get sick. The locals, of course, have no problem with it, but street food can spell trouble for a foreign gut.<\/li>\n<li>Bring a LifeStraw water bottle\u2013you can fill it up from anywhere, even an old garden hose, and it will filter out giardia, coliform, E. coli, etc. You can even use ice cubes, which would be helpful much of the year when it\u2019s so hot there.<\/li>\n<li>There is, of course, tons to see and lots of history. No matter where you go, there are interesting temples, monuments, natural wonders, etc.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"u-serif-font-main--large\">\n<div class=\"ui_qtext_expanded\">\n<ul>\n<li>105\u00baF+ and 80%+ humidity is difficult to handle. 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The restaurants have signs posted outside saying\u00a0Veg,\u00a0Non-Veg, etc. so it\u2019s easy to tell if you\u2019ll&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashtanga-yoga-teacher-training-rishikesh","tag-ashtanga-yoga-teacher-training-rishikesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}