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Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98
No, no hand gel.
And no nothing was swanky, maybe skanky.
It is an amazing place though. One morning looking out of the hotel (****hole) window in New Delhi to see two Elephants being ridden through the general chaos of cows, goats, people, scooters, rubble and other assorted ****e is one I will remember. The smell is another...
Glad you had a great holiday.
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I used to have to go on business trips to some dodgy countries (commissioning production machinery) and got used to not having anything that was not cooked, no ice and only drinking carbonated water (the locals were not against finding empty bottles and filling them up from local tap and re-selling them, carbonated water was harder to fake).
One of the older engineers went to India a lot in the 60's and 70's and he always said his most lasting memory was that everywhere he went smelled like 5h!t and cows could easily cause traffic jams by lying down in the road or just wandering along slowly because people were not allowed to interfere with them - and all the taxis were Morris Oxfords with 'square wheels' (or maybe just the roads were bad.