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Post by chech on Oct 8, 2019 11:00:15 GMT
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Pauline
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Post by Pauline on Oct 13, 2019 1:44:16 GMT
Hope all goes well for you Chech and look forward to reading all about it.
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Post by chech on Nov 8, 2019 20:32:30 GMT
I've posted my tale for the Golden Triangle above. Tibet should be available in a few days.  |
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Post by Pauline on Nov 14, 2019 8:32:23 GMT
I've posted my tale for the Golden Triangle above. Tibet should be available in a few days. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your India tour and the photos are fabulous. I'll check out the ones on Flickr over the weekend. I was on a 28 day tour of India in 2013 and travelled from the north down to the south. Like you, I was absolutely fascinated with the Jantar Mantar and your Agra's guide of letting your first view of the Taj Mahal be through the arches, was the best. The tour I did, experienced the same first sight. It really is a beautiful structure, in the flesh. One thing I didn't suffer from was "Delhi belly" but some others on the tour did. Sorry that you did so soon into your time there. I'm looking forward to reading about your other tours. |
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Post by Oz-T on Nov 15, 2019 10:22:01 GMT
Great travel tale, Chech. As usual, you bring us along as though we're there with you.
I was particularly interested because we're headed to the Golden Triangle ourselves next March (we booked it a few weeks before you announced your intentions on this forum that you were going too, so our travel interests very much coincide).
We originally tried to book a tour that added Nepal and Bhutan but they deleted that one before we could book it. So instead of waiting endlessly to see if they reinstated that triple-country package, we opted for the Golden Triangle tour.
One of our favourite cuisines is Indian so we're pretty familiar with that sort of food here in Australia. Hopefully that'll provide some resistance to Delhi Belly but we'll still be careful.
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Post by chech on Nov 16, 2019 0:21:33 GMT
LOL. Yeah, me and masala don't get along.
What company are you going with? Intrepid (an Aussie company) has a nice Bhutan tour. What I found with Bhutan is that you don't want to do more than a week there. This tour covers the best part of the country and avoids the crazy dirt roads of the interior. www.intrepidtravel.com/au/bhutan/bhutan-discovered-117812
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Post by Oz-T on Nov 17, 2019 8:42:43 GMT
TripADeal. It's one of a couple of new Australian travel companies that are changing the way overseas tours are packaged. Under conventional tour companies such as Trafalgar, we have to purchase the tour from a travel agent, then separately buy the airfares, either through that agent or online. A couple of companies (TripADeal and Luxury Escapes) have changed the model by packaging everything together, a pretty obvious idea. That way, they have the buying power to demand discounts from the local tour companies, hotels and airlines.
Our China trip last June was via TripADeal and it was incredibly cheap. So we chose this business for our next tour. I'll go into a lot more detail about these types of travel deals later in a separate thread.
I did view Bhutan as a destination justifying only a week. Nepal too. A pairing of both countries remains on my bucket list so I hope we can get there one day. Adding Tibet would be ideal but geopolitical issues might end up closing that opportunity down the track.
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Post by chech on Nov 19, 2019 12:12:47 GMT
Yeah, that's why I kept trying for Tibet after the previous two tours were cancelled (one by China's border closure for that one week).
Nepal and Bhutan together are a good combination. A lot that I talked to in Nepal did the Pokara and Chitwan tour to the west of Kathmandu. They all raved about it. Mountains and animals.
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