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Top 10 travel tips to Gujarat

June 18, 2009 posted by indiatime |

Gujarat state tourism has some travel tips for tourists. Here is a summed up list in no particular order:

1. Bear in mind that people are often pleased to see foreigners in local dress -

Foreigners should bring in their collection of Indian dresses including their favorite head scarves ‘that can come in handy’.

2. If you are wearing expensive jewellery, keep it low-key so as not to attract theft

3. Unlike other states in India, walking around in urban and rural areas in this state is safe. It is less safer in less populated areas. But you will probably have the most difficulty in thick crowds at fairs, festivals, and programs. If you do get physically harassed, try and approach the situation as calmly as you can, but don’t hesitate to address it with the person -

Wow. This means foreigners should not venture into areas that are neither urban nor rural. Secondly, it is safer to walk in more populated areas, but totally unsafe to walk in most populated areas. Thirdly, if you are harrassed, you should calmly take out your head scarf that you brought along with you and calmly put it around the troublemakers and should calmly give a tug and pull it tight.

4. There is very little contact physical between men and women in Gujarat.
I’ll be damned. How the heck did the population go up in those more populated areas?

5. Be sure to keep water and snacks with you. Carry puffed rice and a knife to peel fruit. Use ziploc bags to at half-eaten food later.

- Half-eaten food that you yourself ate half. Not to put others’ half-eaten food you dummy.

6. Consider homeopathy if your child falls sick. Many children need a particular blanket to feel secure.

- Who knew Gujarat state was promoting homeopathy? And blanket merchants as well? If only we knew what particular blanket and where to get it.

7. For disabled travelers, Gujarat state is in the process of gathering information about them.

8. Encourage your children to window-shop instead of real shopping, as a cultural learning experience.

9. Before the trip, involve your kid in the itinerary and other travel decisions, if they are old enough for conversation -

Better keep mum about your travel plans if they are younger than old enough.

10. Women visitors, especially those traveling alone, might come across difficulties that men do not. -

We know and care, because our the local women, too, come across those same difficulties that men do not.

And one more:

11. While you will often see men holding hands with each other in friendship, anything more would be considered inappropriate.

In friendship, holding anything more than hands is inappropriate.


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  1. Light on June 18, 2009 11:11 pm

    Please don’t mind garrulity of our chief minister Mr.Moddi,simply enjoy the gem of Indian states ;-)).
    I thought Gujrat is a dry state :-)

  2. ???? ????? on July 4, 2009 5:03 pm

    Where did you find these tips? I couldn’t find any such material on the state tourism website link you gave.

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