Travel VideosAsiaIndia
Flag of India

India Travel Video Guide

India Travel Itinerary



Travel Guide for India & Travel Itinerary




"Unity in Diversity" was the slogan chosen when India celebrated fifty years of Independence in 1997, a declaration replete with as much optimism as pride. Stretching from the frozen barrier of the Himalayas to the tropical greenery of Kerala, and from the sacred Ganges to the sands of the Thar desert, the country's boundaries encompass incomparable variety. Walk the streets of any Indian city and you'll rub shoulders with representatives of several of the world's great faiths, a multitude of castes and outcastes, fair-skinned, turbanned Punjabis and dark-skinned Tamils. You'll also encounter temple rituals that have been performed since the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs, onion-domed mosques erected centuries before the Taj Mahal was ever dreamt of, and quirky echoes of the British Raj on virtually every corner.

That so much of India's past remains discernible today is all the more astonishing given the pace of change since Independence in 1947. Spurred by the free-market reforms of the early 1990s, the economic revolution started by Rajiv Gandhi has transformed the country with new consumer goods, technologies and ways of life. Now the land where the Buddha lived and taught, whose religious festivals are as old as the rivers that sustain them, is the second-largest producer of computer software in the world, with its own satellites and nuclear weapons.

However, the presence in even the most far-flung market towns of internet cafes and Japanese hatchbacks has thrown into sharp relief the problems that have bedevilled the subcontinent since long before it became the world's largest secular democracy. Rooted in the monolithic hierarchy of caste, poverty remains a harsh fact of life for around forty percent of India's inhabitants. No other nation on earth has slum settlements on the scale of those in Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta, nor so many malnourished children, uneducated women and homes without access to clean water and waste disposal.

Many first-time visitors find themselves unable to see past such glaring disparities. Others come expecting a timeless ascetic wonderland and are surprised to encounter one of the most materialistic societies on the planet. Still more find themselves intimidated by what may seem, initially, an incomprehensible and bewildering continent. But for all its

© 2003 by Rough Guides Ltd. as trustee for its Authors. Published by Rough Guides. All rights reserved. Rough Guides name is a trademark of Rough Guides Ltd. Buy the book here!

jarring juxtapositions, intractable paradoxes and frustrations, India remains an utterly compelling destination. Intricate and worn, its distinctive patina - the stream of life in its crowded bazaars, the ubiquitous filmi music, the pungent melange of beedi smoke, cooking spices, dust and cow dung - casts a spell that few forget from the moment they step off a plane. Love it or hate it - and most travellers oscillate between the two - India will shift the way you see the world.


Your Tips For India




India Travel Videos

The Latest Incredible India Commercial, Directors Cut
The 2 minute version of the newest Incredible India ad featuring yours truly -
The Lifeline Of India-Indian Trains
Indian Trains are unarguably the lifeline of India...amp the Indians of course....they provide connectivity amp convenience but at the same time ...
Michael Palin at the India-Pakistan border ceremony - BBC
Fascinating footage of a traditional ceremony that takes place on the Pakistan India border. From the BBC
Incredible India - Video
ncredible ndia The first globally distributed Indian Tourism Promotion Video. This video has been very widely distributed and must sure have ...
Incredibly Incredible India
Incredible ndia Promo. For those people who requested the meaning of the song. quotS - Ni - Dha - Pa - Pa Dha - Pa - Ga - Sa - Ri Sa - Sa - Ga - Pa ...
India Shining
A presentation after two weeks in India with Insead business school. quotThe overstretched 19th century elephant lumbers toward anarchy, while the ...
INDIA HISTORY PART I
THIS IS PART I We made this movie on Indias History for an annual Diwali function at the university of Tennessee,knoxville. We present here 5000 ...
Pakistan India Wagah Border Ceremony by Michael Palin
Pakistan India Wagah Border Ceremony
India-Pakistan border ceremony - BBC
Comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar visits the India-Pakistan border to experience the facial hair and remarkable walks of the Border Ceremony. Conflict or ...
Air India
India mmm Curry xD Air India Limited2 Hindi is the national flag carrier airline of India, flying a worldwide network ...
INDIA-1 of the best rated videos on YouTubeampamp over a million views
Indias amazing diversityoffers you everything you could ever want in a holiday. From the moment that you set foot in India to be greeted by a ...
Travel Video, Kerala, India
Travel Video, Kerala, India
UFO Sighting in South India
This video was taken sometime in May, 2007 on my friends phone and I got a hold of it now. This is an unmistakable UFO sighting, although most ...
Air India
an Air India Boeing 747-400 over the atlantic ocean
India - Incredible India - One land everyone desire to see
www.mysticindia.com 11-year old child yogi, Neelkanth Lord Swaminarayana walked alone, barefoot and barebody, 8000 miles for 7 years through the ...
Chennai India
Chennai India

Read more about India


  • Travel to India - India Tour Travel Agent
    India Travel Guide - indianholiday.com is largest india tour guide who provide online booking facilities for travel package to india, india travel agency & destination and much ...
    http://www.indianholiday.com
  • Indian Travel Destinations,India Travel,India Tour ...
    Indian Travel Destinations provide information on India travel, India tour, beach travel India, india tour packages, wildlife travel India, adventure travel, rajasthan travel, hill ...
    http://www.indiantraveldestinations.com

  • Ask a Question, or give a Travel Tip for India



    Your tip for India

    Help other travellers! Write your own India travel guides and backpacking tips for India - See the full India travel forum here

    Ask a question!

    What do you want to know about India? Ask here and Travelingo's users might just help you out! Please only ask a question about India - Visit our full travel forum here


    India Travel & Backpacking Forum

    India Messages
    travel agents list (Hauz Khas)babu
    Best place 2 learn (India)Meditation
    singhania (Calcutta (Kolkata))rahul singh
    Stamps (Islands of Lakshadwe)Mikhael Owen
    Jaipur to Shekhawati (North of Jaipur - Sh)Amita

    Other Recent Messages
    InfoinKiev (Ukraine)John
    Tony (Suriname)Ladkin
    rainfall in Rome (Italy)Es
    dolphin (Subic Bay)karlgab
    miss (Downpatrick)Maria

    View the full Travelingo Travel Forum >>


    Our Best India Travel Video Guides

    • Delhi India Travel Videos
      India Travel Itinerary
      Delhi is the symbol of old India and new ? even the stones here whisper to our ears of the ages of long ago and the air we breathe is full of the dust and fragrances of the past, as also of the fresh and piercing winds of the present. - India
    • Kerala India Travel Videos
      India Travel Itinerary
      A sliver of dense greenery sandwiched between the Arabian Sea and the forested Western Ghat mountains, the state of KERALA runs down the southwest coast of India, around 550km long and 120km wide at its broadest point. - India

    Our Newest India Travel Videos:


    Bombay Mumbai India Traffic
    St. Pauls Cathedral, Calcutta, Kolkata, Video
    Air India
    Ducks Swimming - Kuttanad Canals, Alappuzha
    Kottayam And Alappuzha Boats
    Tourism Affecting Kuttanad Farmers Part 2
    The Parliament House Of India
    Sweet Maker Kolkata Calcutta West Bengal
    2009 April Chandor Garden And Fort Worth
    The Blue City Jodhpur - Rajasthan India
    Chhau Dance @ Shilpgram, Udaipur
    Turtle Lounge Cottages, Agonda Beach, South Goa
    New Ampamp Old Delhi India Travel Part 1 Of 2 Capitol City
    The Qutub Minar Delhi
    New Delhi City Tour
    Chandni Chowk, Delhi, India
    Terminal 3 New Delhi International Airport - A Vision For 2010 Commonwealth Games
    Kerala, India

    India Travel Itinerary

    Agra
    Bombay (Mumbai)
    Calcutta (Kolkata)
    Delhi
    Fatehpur Sikri
    Goa
    Kerala
    Rajasthan
    Varanasi

    Regions



    Travel Itineraries

    Travel Videos

    Map of India


    Search guides

    Search hotels

    Search flights

     

    Copyright © 2003-2009 travelingo.org. All Rights Reserved.

    Backpacking Thailand •  Hotels •  Flights •  About Us •  Privacy Policy •  T&Cs •  SiteMap •  Webguide  •  Travel Link Exchange
    Football Highlights • Lager • Watch Live Football Online • Searches 2 3 4 5 6

    Travelingo.org is not a booking agent and does not charge any service fees to users of our site.
    Travelingo.org is not responsible for content on external web sites.