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RE: TRAVELMAN JAISALMER INDIA: Sometimes You Have to Find out For Yourself
It was hot! I’m in Verkala Beach today and it’s hot and HUMID! I leave india tomorrow and go to Sri Lanka. The fact that it always seemed like I was a financial target in India was the downside of this leg of my journey. It discouraged me from talking to locals, and when I did, I never knew if they were saving me or robbing me. The Haveli was simply a tourist trap type attraction that only cost me three bucks and twenty minutes of my life. It’s listed high as a THING TO DO in Jaisalmer. Not for me. ...Southern India, Verkala Beach- I’m really not surprised, but it feels like a slightly different country. But El Paso Texas and New York City are almost like different countries as well.
I hear you. While I have quite a few pleasant memories of India, they are all buried far down in my subsubsubconcsious. My accessible memories of the country are similar to what you mention above.
But when I went south, particularly Goa and Kerala, I too felt like I had gone to a different country. A much nicer place....
And when I landed in Sri Lanka, it was like I was on a different planet ... diff from India, that is! It was much cleaner and much more civilized, and the people were very decent and pleasant.
(Interestingly, I did not find the Sri Lankan women very attractive ... to my tastes, that is. I distinctly recall seeing only 1 woman whom I thought was "beautiful" ... subjectively speaking, of course.)
I'm sure you'll like it, and you might even be surrounded by hordes of beautiful, alluring women!!