Whoever gave the advice to not eat street food gave terrible advice. Where else can I get a deliciou thali for <$1USD. Amazing food.
The point wasn't that Indian street food tasted bad. The point is that sometimes you can get very sick from Indian street food and that it wasn't worth the risk.
it is the most dangerous country in Asia for traveling especially for women.
India is the rape capital of Asia and the police can be easily bribed and will do nothing.
The entire country is polluted beyond belief, in fact, 9 of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in India.
Everyone will scam you as soon as they see you are a tourist.
Simply put: don’t go.
But some guy named "bah." Keeps saying that India is a great place and that it's fine for a single female to go to India by herself. Why would he say that? Is he crazy to give such bad advice?
have you don’t any research before going to India?
I am from there , born there and lived there.
it is the most dangerous country in Asia for traveling especially for women.
India is the rape capital of Asia and the police can be easily bribed and will do nothing.
The entire country is polluted beyond belief, in fact, 9 of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in India.
Everyone will scam you as soon as they see you are a tourist.
Simply put: don’t go.
Nope, you don’t know the country you claim to have been born and lived in if you seriously think “it’s the most dangerous country in Asia… for women”. It’s not the rape capital of Asia. There are no such reliable stats. Zero chance cops can easily be bribed and the case hushed down if an American woman gets raped there. Shutting that down would require very high level political connections. Just not happening.
OP is a fake troll, but I would recommend someone in OP’s shoes traveling in a group, though a high likelihood of rape won’t be one of the top three reasons why.
have you don’t any research before going to India?
I am from there , born there and lived there.
it is the most dangerous country in Asia for traveling especially for women.
India is the rape capital of Asia and the police can be easily bribed and will do nothing.
The entire country is polluted beyond belief, in fact, 9 of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in India.
Everyone will scam you as soon as they see you are a tourist.
Simply put: don’t go.
Nope, you don’t know the country you claim to have been born and lived in if you seriously think “it’s the most dangerous country in Asia… for women”. It’s not the rape capital of Asia. There are no such reliable stats. Zero chance cops can easily be bribed and the case hushed down if an American woman gets raped there. Shutting that down would require very high level political connections. Just not happening.
OP is a fake troll, but I would recommend someone in OP’s shoes traveling in a group, though a high likelihood of rape won’t be one of the top three reasons why.
Zero chance that the cops can be reliably bribed? I was in India for 5-6 months, and the Indian family I was staying with repeatedly told me that officials can be bribed in pretty much any circumstance. Aside from that, there's a good chance any woman making a rape allegation won't be believed. The family also imposed a curfew on me, even though I was a grown adult, because they didn't think it was safe for a woman to be outside after dark. Indian friends my own age would bombard me with text messages to make sure I made it home safely after we hung out together. Nobody there thought it was safe for women. Moreover, some Indian men think that American women are sexually promiscous and will, at the very least, say obnoxious things to you about sex.
I ran laps around a tiny park when I was there. It actually inspired other people at the park to try running, so that was fun. I wore long dress shorts and a t-shirt because my running shorts were too short for that context. India is both amazing and awful. If you stayed at a hotel you could run on a treadmill. I would not go without a local person or family to oversee my plans, especially as a woman. It's worth the trip but not as a solo female traveler without connections.
Nope, you don’t know the country you claim to have been born and lived in if you seriously think “it’s the most dangerous country in Asia… for women”. It’s not the rape capital of Asia. There are no such reliable stats. Zero chance cops can easily be bribed and the case hushed down if an American woman gets raped there. Shutting that down would require very high level political connections. Just not happening.
OP is a fake troll, but I would recommend someone in OP’s shoes traveling in a group, though a high likelihood of rape won’t be one of the top three reasons why.
Zero chance that the cops can be reliably bribed? I was in India for 5-6 months, and the Indian family I was staying with repeatedly told me that officials can be bribed in pretty much any circumstance. Aside from that, there's a good chance any woman making a rape allegation won't be believed. The family also imposed a curfew on me, even though I was a grown adult, because they didn't think it was safe for a woman to be outside after dark. Indian friends my own age would bombard me with text messages to make sure I made it home safely after we hung out together. Nobody there thought it was safe for women. Moreover, some Indian men think that American women are sexually promiscous and will, at the very least, say obnoxious things to you about sex.
I ran laps around a tiny park when I was there. It actually inspired other people at the park to try running, so that was fun. I wore long dress shorts and a t-shirt because my running shorts were too short for that context. India is both amazing and awful. If you stayed at a hotel you could run on a treadmill. I would not go without a local person or family to oversee my plans, especially as a woman. It's worth the trip but not as a solo female traveler without connections.
Learn to read what I wrote, not just part of what I wrote that aligns with your biases.
Zero chance that the cops can be reliably bribed? I was in India for 5-6 months, and the Indian family I was staying with repeatedly told me that officials can be bribed in pretty much any circumstance. Aside from that, there's a good chance any woman making a rape allegation won't be believed. The family also imposed a curfew on me, even though I was a grown adult, because they didn't think it was safe for a woman to be outside after dark. Indian friends my own age would bombard me with text messages to make sure I made it home safely after we hung out together. Nobody there thought it was safe for women. Moreover, some Indian men think that American women are sexually promiscous and will, at the very least, say obnoxious things to you about sex.
I ran laps around a tiny park when I was there. It actually inspired other people at the park to try running, so that was fun. I wore long dress shorts and a t-shirt because my running shorts were too short for that context. India is both amazing and awful. If you stayed at a hotel you could run on a treadmill. I would not go without a local person or family to oversee my plans, especially as a woman. It's worth the trip but not as a solo female traveler without connections.
Learn to read what I wrote, not just part of what I wrote that aligns with your biases.
I did read what you wrote. I disagree with the part where you say there is zero chance that an American woman could be raped and the cops bribed. I'm telling you that all of the Indian people around me when I was there disagree with you. They insisted that I was at greater risk of rape and bribery because I am an American woman.
Learn to read what I wrote, not just part of what I wrote that aligns with your biases.
I did read what you wrote. I disagree with the part where you say there is zero chance that an American woman could be raped and the cops bribed. I'm telling you that all of the Indian people around me when I was there disagree with you. They insisted that I was at greater risk of rape and bribery because I am an American woman.
We disagree then. If a crime against an American in India is reported, the American consulate will additionally get involved and from there on, the state department. Any crime can be hushed away but it’s far less likely with an American assuming the rapist is identifiable; if not, it’s a moot point.
The more relevant question is the likelihood of rape of an American woman in India. There is only opinion and anecdote being thrown around here, no reliable data. Setting aside OP’s troll hypothetical, a single woman traveling in any foreign country is at greater risk of rape than traveling in a group, but it’s laughable if people think “India is the rape capital of Asia” in that context. They just don’t know India or Asia very well.
You might have better luck in GOA along the coast, or in the north. The large cities will be a wide variety of experiences depending upon what economic tier that you'll be travelling at...
Sure, they cross the U.S. border and suddenly are different people. Many of them are here because they weren't good enough in India's own ultra-competitive tech-engineering landscape to get into the top schools. All these nasty, one-sided remarks here about going to India just represent xenophobia. Get out and see the world. Somehow the crime stats I posted were down-voted, yet they show that our crime rate is far worse. There's a few grains of fact about negative things in India here, but crime, murder, and rape? You're safer in India than here.
They have a very strong work ethic, very strong family values, and very strong community. India (add in Pakistan, since it was part of historical India) also has some of the oldest culture in the world. For example, I visited a partially rebuilt 5,000 year old civilization in Pakistan when I was there.
I'm sorry, but I can't take your views on India seriously when you voluntarily visited Pakistan. Way pre-9/11 (early 1990s) my Pakisatani-American friend said it was dangerous for his family to visit Pakistan because they would be killed if people found out they lived in America. Muslims there falsely accuse Christians of 'blasphemy' so that the Christians can be killed and the Muslims can steal their stuff.
There is a strong Islamist influence on their perpetually teetering government (thanks, Saudi funding!), and the world somehow let these nutjobs build their nuclear stockpile to 150+ weapons.
Not the kind of place I'm interested in visiting to see some 5,000 year old ruins.
I was in Pakistan in September of 1993 and I didn't play it safe. After going through numerous bribe requests (from the officials first at the airport, then at the office in town) to get my visa in country in Karachi, I took the slow train in 4th class up north to Rawalpindi, with a stop in the 5,000 year old civilization, then got up at 4 a.m. to catch a 5 a.m. bus up to Gilgit through an amazing road snaking at times thousands of feet above the river Indus and thousands of feet below the tops of the Himalayas where the sub-continent was pushing up into Asia. The bus broke down several times each way. It barely made many of the turns and could easily have gotten into head-on collisions with other crazy buses (brightly decorated, driven crazily). Also, we had many checkpoints where we all had to get out and I alone as the only foreigner had to show my passport and they could keep a record of the last point I was before abduction. In Gilgit, there was a 6 p.m. curfew because of rebel fighting (this is right near Afghanistan in the northern section of Pakistan and all this went through what is now known as Taliban country). I raced back just after curfew started one night. You could be shot for missing it. I went on from there to Hunza, where some looked like descendants of Alexander the Great. Kids threw stones at me in Rawalpindi in the slums near the train station on my way back. By the time I got to the airport in Karachi to move on to New Delhi, I was exhausted from staying up with my feet on the front door of the first car behind the train engine to keep it closed and the smoke out of the coach. So, yes, I took risks and it was well worth it. Live a little.
Incidentally, I had grown my beard for months at that point and my hair was longer and so I probably looked like American Taliban. As a result, many in Pakistan took me for Muslim. That probably helped keep me safe.
I was in Pakistan in September of 1993 and I didn't play it safe. After going through numerous bribe requests (from the officials first at the airport, then at the office in town) to get my visa in country in Karachi, I took the slow train in 4th class up north to Rawalpindi, with a stop in the 5,000 year old civilization, then got up at 4 a.m. to catch a 5 a.m. bus up to Gilgit through an amazing road snaking at times thousands of feet above the river Indus and thousands of feet below the tops of the Himalayas where the sub-continent was pushing up into Asia. The bus broke down several times each way. It barely made many of the turns and could easily have gotten into head-on collisions with other crazy buses (brightly decorated, driven crazily). Also, we had many checkpoints where we all had to get out and I alone as the only foreigner had to show my passport and they could keep a record of the last point I was before abduction. In Gilgit, there was a 6 p.m. curfew because of rebel fighting (this is right near Afghanistan in the northern section of Pakistan and all this went through what is now known as Taliban country). I raced back just after curfew started one night. You could be shot for missing it. I went on from there to Hunza, where some looked like descendants of Alexander the Great. Kids threw stones at me in Rawalpindi in the slums near the train station on my way back. By the time I got to the airport in Karachi to move on to New Delhi, I was exhausted from staying up with my feet on the front door of the first car behind the train engine to keep it closed and the smoke out of the coach. So, yes, I took risks and it was well worth it. Live a little.
Interesting and hilarious story. Why were the Rawalpindi kids throwing stones at you?
I was in Pakistan in September of 1993 and I didn't play it safe. After going through numerous bribe requests (from the officials first at the airport, then at the office in town) to get my visa in country in Karachi, I took the slow train in 4th class up north to Rawalpindi, with a stop in the 5,000 year old civilization, then got up at 4 a.m. to catch a 5 a.m. bus up to Gilgit through an amazing road snaking at times thousands of feet above the river Indus and thousands of feet below the tops of the Himalayas where the sub-continent was pushing up into Asia. The bus broke down several times each way. It barely made many of the turns and could easily have gotten into head-on collisions with other crazy buses (brightly decorated, driven crazily). Also, we had many checkpoints where we all had to get out and I alone as the only foreigner had to show my passport and they could keep a record of the last point I was before abduction. In Gilgit, there was a 6 p.m. curfew because of rebel fighting (this is right near Afghanistan in the northern section of Pakistan and all this went through what is now known as Taliban country). I raced back just after curfew started one night. You could be shot for missing it. I went on from there to Hunza, where some looked like descendants of Alexander the Great. Kids threw stones at me in Rawalpindi in the slums near the train station on my way back. By the time I got to the airport in Karachi to move on to New Delhi, I was exhausted from staying up with my feet on the front door of the first car behind the train engine to keep it closed and the smoke out of the coach. So, yes, I took risks and it was well worth it. Live a little.
Your story doesn't disprove my point (especially if you know what was going on there militarily at the time).
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