[john.sw]

The India Tree has members from around the world - Are you planning your first trip, or have you been to India before?

[TracyB]

I never ever thought I would even get to India once in this life time..Yet in a 18 month time span, went to India 3 times..First to Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Ranthambore, Varanasi, Karauli and Mandawa...Second time to Kerala..and then 3rd time to Goa...

Unreal..and now starting to plan a 4th trip for early next year...This time maybe to Puskar and Jaisalmer and perhaps back to Goa..

Anyhow.............

[tonylittle]

TracyB, on May 9 2006, 03:10 AM, said:

I never ever thought I would even get to India once in this life time..Yet in a 18 month time span, went to India 3 times..First to Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Ranthambore, Varanasi, Karauli and Mandawa...Second time to Kerala..and then 3rd time to Goa...

Unreal..and now starting to plan a 4th trip for early next year...This time maybe to Puskar and Jaisalmer and perhaps back to Goa..

Anyhow.............

Going in Nov. for the 24 time must like the place I think

                   TONY   

[YETI]

This is my third trip - I'll have been here for a year (on and off) in September.

[paan wallah]

I had to "cheat" a little bit

been to India 7 times but coudn t find the number 7

[cyberhippie]

The last trip was number 15 and on quick calculation I think I've spent around 5 years on the Sub Continent!!

[paan wallah]

5 years is a very long time...I hope there will be much more time for you in the coming years  

been to India altogether maybe 2 and a half years only

spent too many years in other asian countrys  

[cyberhippie]

Well job offers are making it look like a trip IS on the cards come April 2007, interesting I've never been in India in June!

[BlueRose]

I saw a lot of India while there, most of the highlights I suppose. But I was ALWAYS moving, so I would like to come and just BE somewhere for awhile and perhaps do a cooking course. I also did not see Dehli and Mountain areas, so that is my next plan of attack. Fly to Delhi... see those areas and then perhaps go on over to Myanmar, that is what is on my mind. Probably in 2007. I am almost at the point of putting all my stuff in storage and taking off for a long while (all the kids are now grown and I have a little income) has anyone done that here?
India is great, and it was my first choice of places to go. Certainly all the diversity reccomends it, not to mention the architecture, art, history, etc... fascinating!

[Serena]

5 times...counting the next in August!
CH, my total is only 4,5 months....... :-(

[ploma]

Next august will be my fifth time. I was there for six month on 99 after having my degree in the university, later I found a job that I like but only allows me one month holiday (and on august) and i've been doing short trips of one month… so there's lots of places that i've to discover. Next august going to Hampi and will travel north till Orchha visiting central India

[kullukid]

4 times since '97 hoping to make it 5 this year.   kk

[larki]

WOW!   I am in awe!!  
I will be there for my first time in June for 3 months. (28 days to go!!)
and I plan to go back every year.
CH: I will tell you what it is like in June!

[iwanttogoback]

once, in feb 2005.
but I decided this week that I will go at the end of next year - something about the new site actually made me realise that I should DO SOMETHING in the real world .
I am trying to convince madam princess that she should come - she will be nearly 11 by then.

[peace]

6 months in 1995/96
6 months in 2000/2001

planning my next trip for the beginning of next year - Love it!

Edited by peace, 17 May 2006 - 05:13 PM.

[Indojinguy]

3 times, for a total of 1 month. (past 4 ~ 5 years)

If I count being born there as a visit: 4 times, for a total of 24 years.

[Seventies'Neil]

About 7 yrs between 1970 & 1980.  first time 1month, with the last time 3 years, with numourous times in-between of months & years. All in the days when visas weren't required.
Then a 10year gap (long story). Since then it's 3-4weeks whenever we can,,,,,,,,,,,,

[tonylittle]

Seventies, on May 17 2006, 05:10 PM, said:

About 7 yrs between 1970 & 1980.  first time 1month, with the last time 3 years, with numourous times in-between of months & years. All in the days when visas weren't required.
Then a 10year gap (long story). Since then it's 3-4weeks whenever we can,,,,,,,,,,,,

My 24 trip first went in 1982, my first meal cost one one pound last year sme hotel still only one pound



     TONY   

[Kailash]

I stopped counting after trip 16.
First time was in 1995, only 3 weeks.
Now I'm goigng to India one or two times a year and if it's only one time, I try to stay 3 months.

Summer 99 was supposed to be my last trip to India but I met wonderful people in  Himachal and yes... some of them became my best friends, a family.

From time to time I buy guidebooks for other countries, friends have a funny smile and guess what, I'm back to India!

[dzibead]

iwanttogoback, on May 11 2006, 04:10 AM, said:

once, in feb 2005.
but I decided this week that I will go at the end of next year - something about the new site actually made me realise that I should DO SOMETHING in the real world .
I am trying to convince madam princess that she should come - she will be nearly 11 by then.

Have madam princess read "Kim."  I didn't read it till I was an adult and until AFTER I'd been to India for the first time, but I think if I'd read it as a kid, I would have become infatuated with the place much earlier in my life    Of course, India isn't the same as it was in Kipling's day ... but close enough!  I posted something on the "other site" about reading Kim, and a member named Lugubert responded and said he'd read "Kim" as a boy and has read it every year since!  Sort of like Jeffrey Hopkins, who wrote "The Search for Kim" (or "In Search of Kim" - something like that) about his travels around "Kim country."  Age 11 is probably perfect for a trip to India.  Old enough to really get what's going on, but before the sullen teenage years, when all she'll probably want to do is hang around with her friends at the mall (or whatever is the Australian equivalent).