India is the closest country to us. Many people have a dream to visit India. If you go near the Himalayas in December and January in northern India, you can see snow. There is no snow in our country. Playing snowball is a dream for young people in a tropical country like ours where there is no snow.

Also, when getting a little older, Buddhist devotees get a little desire to visit shrines including Bodh Gaya, where the Buddha was alive, Tirupati temples for Tamils, and churches like Goa and Velikarni for Christians.

Today we are going to present a few small things about how to get there cheaply for the common people who want to go on a trip to India.

Visa and flights

When getting flight tickets to India, there are direct flights from Sri Lanka to many places like Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Varanasi, Calcutta, Chennai, Madurai, Kochi. Then we can go up from Sri Lanka and get down there. But the cheapest way is to fly from Sri Lanka to Chennai or Mumbai and from there take a domestic airline in India. The number of Indian people using domestic flights for long distance travel has increased a lot. If you can book the air tickets a month or two in advance, you can get the air tickets quite cheaply. Spicejet, Indigo, Jet Airways, Go Air, Air India can be mentioned as Indian domestic airlines.

You can search for the cheapest flight tickets and prices on sites like Yatra, Make My Trip, Clear Trip. Also, now that it is possible to get online air tickets, we have the ability to book tickets online by choosing cheap or comfortable airlines without paying a lot of money.

Even though you can get a visa upon landing in India, it costs $60. Therefore, there will be an advantage in terms of money to take the visa in Sri Lanka through IVS Sri Lanka.

of weather and climate

First of all, India is not a small country like Sri Lanka. It takes more than three hours to go from Trivandrum at the bottom to the airport at the top of Assam. We traveled from Sri Lanka to Chennai in an hour. But from there it was two flights to Delhi.

At the beginning of January, there are times when the temperature in Delhi drops to 10 degrees centigrade..Then the Himalayas, 500 to 1000 km above Delhi, are even colder..Uttrakhand, Kashmir, Sikkim, Darjeeling and West Bengal region where there are high peaks snow falls, and the peaks are covered with white snow silk. . Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the climate before the trip.

how many rooms Is it good?

Whether we are on a pilgrimage to India, on another excursion or on business, we have to find a place to stay. It seems that the Indian middle class is more tech-savvy than the Sri Lankan. They also use websites to reserve rooms. Generally, room facilities can be found in four levels around major tourist spots in India.

India is considered as a country where you can travel for the longest time with the least amount of money in the world. That’s why room facilities in India are cheaper than similar hotel rooms in Sri Lanka, even in famous tourist places. Oyo Rooms is a good site for those looking for such rooms in India.. Searching for rooms in India through Indian websites is the most profitable activity. It will be more convenient if you can book rooms through an app or online rather than going to a certain city and looking for rooms nearby.

Traffic

There are luxury bus services between major cities in India. Seats can be pre-booked through websites like redbus and Bus India. Now the bus service reaches the relevant places faster than the train service.

Train journeys are not the type of journeys where you get on in the morning and get off at noon like in Sri Lanka. Sometimes you have to travel thousands of kilometers by train for two or three nights to reach your destination. Indian Railways tickets can be booked three months in advance through ICRTC.

In long-distance trains, there are often no seats available at that time if seats are not booked in advance. Therefore, if you are traveling long distances by train, it will be more important to plan your journey by booking tickets online.

In an Indian train

If you intend to travel in the mountainous regions on the border of the Himalayas, it is best to choose a cab. In case of a group trip, the cab can reach the destination faster than the bus. Also, if 7-8 people are going, sometimes the cab ride can be cheaper than the air-conditioned bus.

Package tour

The tour packages chosen to visit the Taj Mahal from Delhi, India are suitable. After getting on the bus at around 6 in the morning, you can reach Agra around 9 in the morning, see the Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal, stop to see the temples on the way and get off at the accommodation in Delhi at night. The tour bus costs only 1000 Indian rupees for the entire trip.

The Taj Mahal

In India, there are many such one-day and weekend tour packages as well as trekking, religious visits, excursions, etc. that last for several weeks. Most can be booked online. These packages are sometimes cheaper. Also, even if it costs a little more, there is a small advantage of going for packages because the risk is less.

Even in getting the packages, if you can join the packages with the Indian people, you will be able to reach more profitable packages.

planning

On a trip to India, we simply think of a shopping trip. There are more than 7-8 markets selling textiles of different levels in Delhi. Although they are called markets, they are extremely crowded markets with two to three hundred shops. For example, Sarojani Nagar in Delhi is basically a retail market with sarees, salwars and women’s clothes. But the Karol Bagh area is most famous for buying cloth in bulk.

There are specific provinces where you can buy such items. The distance between these urban areas is sometimes 20-30 km. Even if it is a shopping trip, if we go without a basic understanding of the goods we need and where they are available, it is difficult to succeed even if it is a shopping trip in India.

Even in an Indian pleasure trip, it will be important to have some understanding about the places we want to visit, the time to reach them, accommodation, stay time, departure time etc. from the village.

Thieves robbers and food

Delhi’s street food is the same. But no matter how much there was, I didn’t want to eat it when I saw it on the side of the road. But after some time after coming to Sri Lanka, when watching the YouTube videos, the whites say, “Oh.. Delicious” without any hesitation. Then about the street food in Delhi. I thought come on.

Indian food varies from region to region. Vegetarian food is mostly used in India as a whole except in Kerala. In India, you will have the opportunity to enjoy many delicious non-vegetarian foods. In Sri Lanka, the oil used in food in some regions is quite unpleasant.

For Westerners, India is quite a social challenge. India is often foreign to white society. But India is not a foreign country for us. Indian urban people often know little or no English. It is also more convenient.

If you are also eager to visit India, these few things will be more important for you. Feel free to share your thoughts. You can also join via comments.