Travel to India

Lonely Planet India

Format: Paperback
Author: Sarina Singh
ReleaseDate: September, 2005
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Lonely Planet India
Very extensive coverage of this vast and multi faceted country. . prooving very useful in planning.

The travel before the travel
Talking specifically about India, in a recent trip I choose the Lonely Planet guide as a reference and I was surprised. It's really interesting the multitude of feelings that the planning of a trip suggests. Almost every comment about India was charged with intense interaction between the writer and the reality. Those observations result in a very complex array of cultural aspects that give me the necessary basis to walk around and interact. Congratulations.

It's not about the book.
I wasn't really sure where to, I just needed a change. A couple months ago I decided to go travelling. In the end I decided on India, because I've never been, and I'd always heard what a great place it was to go.

I didn't take much; a backpack, some clothes, and the Lonely Planet Guide to India. To be honest, I didn't even start reading it until I got on the plane. What I discovered was that it wasn't just something you read once, it's something to have with you the whole time.

Whatever your plans, the chances are you're going to lose your way or make mistakes or just change your mind, and that's where this book is essential. It's like The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy - no matter what need you're in, it has an answer for you. Maps, essential sites, local customs, everything you need to get by in this incredible country.

At first, I wasn't sure if I could manage by myself. You realise how much you rely on other people for so much. I found myself retreating, thinking about home, wanting to go back. But then I'd pick up the Lonely Planet, and find something to do, somewhere to go. And soon I was relying on it less and less, and after a while, hardly at all. Before I knew it, I'd been gone two months and hadn't thought about home in weeks. The book isn't India, it's a way in.

Over the course of my time away, the only thing I came back with that I took with me was this book; everything else I left behind; I realised in the end nothing else really mattered.

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