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Knowing Nothing About India

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I’m sitting here at work attempting to research India and I have come to a realization; I know nothing about India. I don’t really know why I have never noticed it before now, but trying to look up travel plans is proving to be difficult. It seems that I know some stuff (very limited) about the culture, food, etc… but I have absolutely no idea what is in India. I know the Taj Mahal, Mumbai, Delhi, and a few other sites, but as for what else, I’m at a total loss.

I keep attempting to look stuff up, but as I already knew, India is big, really big that is densely packed in with lots of places, cultures, people, etc… and from here on in lies the problem . I don’t know where to begin. I started reading travel sites or blogs, but they refer to things or places I have never heard of, so I go research those. While researching those, I find more stuff I didn’t know and proceed to spiral downward in this process. Eventually, I find that I have read a lot and feel more lost on how to plan.

So far all I’ve got is:

  • Delhi
  • Rajisthan
    • Jaipur
    • Udaipur
  • Varanassi
  • Agra

Sure there are other places on my list, but these are the places I am for sure planning into my trip. I just don’t know enough about the place to figure out where else. Also proving confusing is how to plan a trip to all of these places, since India is so big and I don’t want to waste time backtracking.

All of this amounts to me getting really excited! I’m going to a place I’ve recently learned that I know next to nothing about…and I almost kind of want to keep it that way. I know I shouldn’t because of the thought that I might miss something amazing or having to backtrack, but the mystery is alluring. The thought of walking around completely lost, in a culture I don’t understand, and having to discover it through nothing but my wanderlust sounds magical. Since I’m traveling with YeYe who spent several months in India a few years ago, I might be safe with doing this (although she will hate me for making her do all the planning leg work).

This is going to be awesome…

What’s next…

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So as always I’m struggling with wanderlust and wanting to get the taste of a new land, culture, and cuisine. Again, this blessed illness that I have calls me to other shores…but to where and what’s next?

Should it be…

  • Vagabonding the world? (an idea I’m quite fond of)
  • Teaching in a new country of Asia? (Taiwan, China, etc…)
  • Go to South America and learn Spanish?
  • Working in the “black” somewhere where I can’t teach? (Go Eddie!)
  • Volunteering?

Anyone have any other options that they know of or have used to see the world?
I know I’m not going anywhere anytime soon, since I’m fairly well set in Korea, but it’s never to early to start investigating, planning, and preparing. Right? Need to have time to figure out those pesky little details such as how to finance my expeditions….