Hundreds of thousands have been enticed to come into the country & spend their millions by a promotional campaign that has been branded as being among the most effective nation-branding efforts ever - Incredible India.
The disappointment starts at the rundown airports & rude employees, even at the tourist counter. The latter has people who seem to say I don't know more often than any other useful sentence.
Then comes the attempt to find a way, some way, any way, to get to the hotel without being robbed by auto-rikshaw drivers. If the touts along the way don't push you into the path of oncoming traffic, consider yourself lucky.
After a night's rest, with power outages, bad toilets (even in "Lonly Planet recommended" places; the "lonely" spelling is an authentic copy from a hotel) and hardly any "running hot water", one starts out the next day to the real attraction.
Be ready to be hit with a dense layer of smoke. If that doesn't kill you, the honking can drive you crazy. Dust from the barely paved road will stress test your lungs & eyes. Potholes & road bumps will make your butt hurt. The stench from multiple open sewers will kill all your desire to see whatever wonder you have in mind. Finally, the garbage strewn all over the place at the monument itself will make you depressed.
Welcome, to the Incredible Dump. Don't you wish you had settled for watching all this on the Discovery Channel from your comfy couch ?
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