Come here to discuss travel in India, be it a week vacation or a six month odyssey. If you've gotten bored of Southeast Asia, visit India and rediscover the feeling of exotic adventure on the other side of the world. Be prepared to step over a lot of cowshit!
Buy this delicious sponge dosa breakfast with a dollar and get 25 cents back. They even gave me a complimentary tea (value, 12 cents).
>>2870309That looks good, I don't have any restaurant that tempts me around but I went to a home kitchen for the first time it was nice.
>>2870312Went to the Annamalaiyar temple, expected to see white tourist because it's popular but didn't see any, they prefer the Sri Ramanasramam apparently.Pic is west entrance, it's fucking huge took me 2 hours to visit and get various benedictions.
>>2870314Piles of shoes all around. It can go up to 100k visitors a day, most of them actual hindus taking it very seriously.
>>2870309Where's the protein
The door to the old pumping station is jammed, but daredevils step across the protruding I-beams to climb through the window and write their names on the walls. I'd have to chicken out of that challenge. Just thinking about it gives me the willies.>>2870315So many Indians walk around barefoot because they lost their shoes at a temple, kek>>2870312I like how they cook different sabji every day, so you can keep coming back and getting different flavors.>>2870317Don't need lots of protein to be peak skinnyfat like most Indians. Eat a big dinner before bed and your belly will get swelly. Every now and then I get meat cravings. Last night was a mutton thali, but despite charging 350 rupees they gave me bony, tough scraps of meat. Not happy with that, at that price you should get premium tender chunks of lamb that flake apart.
>>2870323aren't you in south india where they cook chicken and lots of meat-lamb samosas, i'd be ordering ten samosas to go with the sparse morsels you keep posting and calling food, and indians are skinny fat because of the buffalo chai they drink, buffalo milk has a lot of fat
>>2870309Wow bro some pancakes and diarrhea oil. What a great healthy meal.
>>2870578Go to a tandoori joint and you can make the owner's day by eating every meat item on the menu. It won't be dirt cheap, however. Two medium-sized pieces of grilled chicken will run you about ₹250. Mutton has gone up in price a lot lately. Few years back a mutton rice plate or mutton biryani cost $2, now most places charge $3.50. If you're a proper American steakhouse-tier carnivore, you'd eat about $5 worth of mutton in a sitting. >>2870580Perhaps. Been having a lot of putrid farts lately, butthole chronically sore and inflamed. But no watery shits. Diarrhea is for wimps whose gut literally has a meltdown over a little spoilage or contamination.
>>2870578This ₹250 chicken thali had a large portion of savory boneless pan-fried chicken, chewy but otherwise great. The broth was boiled down until the chicken herb flavor was amazingly intense. So good for dipping the roti. Muh "90% rice Asian food" meme BTFOYou don't need as many calories in a hot climate as you do in a cold one, even when you're active.
Two cups of chicken in the last pic BTW. They just raised the price from ₹200 to ₹250, evidently it came with a portion size increase as well. Rare to spend good money and not feel stuffed afterwards, unless you order seafood.Picrel an abandoned chapel on an Indian Army base that allows visitors to climb up to Purandar Fort. Two bus rides and one (free) motorbike ride to get there from Bhor. Friendly and helpful people all around, although the first guy who gave me a ride seemed a little off, like he was homosex. He also believed that repetition could magically overcome the language barrier, ignoring my repeated insistence that I don't understand Marathi.
>>2870603Might just be the heat, it messes with my guts in weird ways personally. I with I could stand the sun like you, these days I've been lazy all day and do my shit from 5pm to 8pm basically.At least I've got a place with a terrace and a nice view.
>>2870615Normies will simply never understand the appeal of this view. It's not something that can be put into words. It's something that can only be understood once you've experienced it.
>>2870653Do Indian normies understand it?
>>2870615Lounging after a big meal is a bad idea, and resting your laptop on your belly while lounging is even worse. You're farther south than I am, and you have no wall of mountains blocking out the oceanic humidity like there is here at 700 meters elevation on the edge of the Deccan Plateau. Dry breezes are common in midday, and temps have been reaching 31-33 C. It feels a lot like Colorado during a dry summer desu, and plenty of Americans enjoy the outdoors in those conditions. 3-4 liters of water necessary for each outing, which does fuck up your electrolyte balance. The rehydration drink boxes are only 20 rupees at any pharmacy, however.
https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/cities/delhi/story/delhi-man-shoots-chest-friend-video-new-ashok-nagar-pawan-2882992-2026-03-17The things people will do for Internet immortality. Anyone have the webm?
>>2870653Anon has a shitty phone camera and took a photo at midday. If he had a telephoto lens and captured only the rugged flanks of the mountain towering over the big red tree under the golden rays of the evening/morning sun, then you would get a sense of what it's like to actually be there looking at the view.
I hate having power lines in my vista shots tho. They ruin the perspective with their ugly straight lines. Stroked this big boi as he entered his burrow on the riverbank in Shirwal. He quickened up the pace a bit and shortly disappeared underground.
>>2870806The shitty phone camera adds an extra level of Indianness
>>2870815Most Indian phone addicts have $200+ phones, which they likely buy on credit. I like my $65 motorola phone, but two hours of screen time runs the battery down to 40%. Indians are always shocked when I tell them how little I paid for my phone. Virtually 100% of my positive interactions here are with men. Same with past travels to Poland and the Philippines. Women are rude and obnoxious, men are friendly and polite. It's always women shoving their way onto the bus to grab the best seats. I can be standing right next to the door waiting to board and ten women will push in front of me. One time the women were crowding so close that people could hardly get off the bus. I put my elbows at my sides and plowed right through them. Bitches love to push men aside, but they sure hate to be pushed back, kek
Met a 40yo blonde woman today, here for some spiritual retreat at the local ashram. She landed in Chennai then took a private taxi straight to her place then didn't go more than 500m away since she arrived 12 days ago because she didn't feel safe.Took her for a 5 hours walk around the city and some nature, she enjoyed it but less than me I think even if it's my daily routine.She got so much attention, especially from women, and it was a bit stressful for me after sunset, glad I don't have to deal with this daily.>>2870818The worst I've seen is Vietnam where girls must have the latest 1000$ iPhone. Heard about family businesses lasting generations who went bankrupt because they had to finance one for their daughter.
While drinking beers in the abandoned cottage I met a couple scrawny young guys who showed up for similar purposes. One of them was drunk and exuberant, the other smoked ganja only and was much quieter. The ganja was Maharashtra village grown and 10x better than the godawful brick weed from Odisha, although potency was quite low. Eventually the drunk dude started being an asshole, despite (or because of) me buying him a beer. He wanted to drink at a dargah, which I knew was disrespectful and refused to bring out the beer. We went to the river, met some rapper guy who was also a good swimmer. Word got around, and soon while cooling my heels on the shady stone steps I looked up and saw the guy from the dosa shop I frequent watching me from the top of the wall with his friends. They seemed to indicate that I should leave that drunk guy, but I liked the river too much. When he started throwing one of my pomegranates up in the air, I got mad. A hungry old man caught it and began eating it like a monkey. I stalked off indignantly as usual when the conduct of newfound "friends" is deemed unacceptable. Theft or attempted theft is my one big red line.
