What to consider when traveling through the Golden Triangle
Golden triangle option 3*
We had a trip along the Golden Triangle from 11/10/2012 to 11/16/2012 today we are moving to GOA.
The tour is quite interesting and informative, although in our opinion some sights could not be visited at all or replaced with others.
Note to potential travelers.
- expenses during a trip around the triangle are not small, a daily set lunch is 550 rupees (10 dollars), if you take a bottle of beer, for example, it will add about 250 rupees, although the real price is 60 and even in a hotel restaurant it will cost 170-200 . Outwardly, it will be a simple working dining room, obviously not even up to a cafe. Plus, dinner, somewhere in the same numbers. Water in the tourist bus 30, beer 100 rupees, against the backdrop of cafe prices by God, but still two times the real price. From 60 to 70 dollars will be collected for entrances to museums, this is without additional excursions, in our case we got another 40 dollars per person. At the end of the tour, they quite brazenly hint at a tip of $ 30. From a person to a guide and a driver with an assistant (15-10-5) We collected 100 rupees from a group of 30 people, the guide was terribly offended and returned the money, we snickered, in our opinion, it's time to put them in their place. As a result, it took us more than $ 500 purely for a tour for 2 people without souvenirs, purely for life without frills, and this is in a cheap country in 5 days.
- what to bring with you, what is in the room:
in reality, you need to initially take everything for your life from home, there will be neither time nor opportunity to buy something along the way (clothing, both short and long, hygiene products, shoes, first aid kit) Sometimes you can get a hairdryer in the room, but in our version it was only in the first hotel of 4, soap was always small pieces, shampoo at best for the first time (not reported), shower caps were almost everywhere. The safe in the room was a couple of times, but we did not use it.
We highly recommend taking a pack of shoe covers with you (10 pairs for two). The guide gives them only when visiting the Taj Mahal, where, of course, you can walk around in socks, somewhere you perceive it quite normally, and somewhere in socks you really don’t want to walk in their “cleanliness”.
No need to give up warm clothes, at least for women. During the day it was warm, around 25, but in the evening and in the morning it was already 10-13, if you ride a tuk-tuk at this temperature or turn gray in an open cafe, you get very cold. Well, the air conditioner in the bus does not work very smoothly, either it blows, or it blows to the fullest, over some places the holes were already sealed with adhesive tape, and in others they had to be covered with a curtain. Turn it off, it gets stuffy, turn it on cold.
- Communication: specifically, we were not very lucky with communication, we had MTS with us, and so it worked for us only in Delhi, found operators in other places, but did not connect, but not everyone did, although not only US. The Internet came to the rescue, everywhere except Jaipur it was not fast but free. And buying SIM cards on this program is not profitable because you constantly move from state to state and, accordingly, get into roaming.
This is our private opinion, we are ready to discuss and argue only with tourists who have visited at least 7-10 countries in different regions of the world.
We will write an extended report after the end of the vacation.
