I would say another important thing is to carry directions, have a little map and even have your hotel's phone number especially if you're grabbing a taxi in a really big city because you can't expect your driver to know where your hotel in like some tiny little neighborhood and the outskirts of town.
So try to make it easy for them to know where you're going and also have your Google Maps open so you can see if you're heading in the right direction. Right. And keep in mind like some of these cities in places your'e visiting are ancient. They've been around for hundreds or thousands of years so you're not talking about a city with a necessarily like a grid-like formation. You may be staying in a back-alley that is kind of serpentine and twists out on to various roads check this website. So yeah, that is a really good tip to make sure you have a good map pre-loaded on your phone. Alright, let's talk about food. You may have noticed that we went vegetarian while we were traveling in India and that was a very conscious decision on our part. We kind of made that decision early on. I remember we walking around through Old Delhi and we just saw like a stack of sheep's heads on the road and they were just like butchering and skinning the animal and it was just sitting out there in the sun and we were thinking hmmm this probably isn't a good idea. And keep in mind meat preparation is going to vary between establishment from one establishment to the next. Of course there are places that have very high standards for refrigeration and whatnot but you just don't know and so we decided to go vegetarian and to be honest we were eating a lot of like dairy based products. Like things like curd and paneer and other things like that so I feel like we were definitely getting enough protein on our trip. Yeah, we didn't really have a whole lot of street food on this trip but if you're feeling adventurous and you want to sample it just make sure it is a really busy place with a quick turnover. Exactly, so make sure and by a busy place you want to look for locals eating there. Yes. Not just a bunch of tourists because you know you want to make sure local people are eating there and you want to make sure it is busy. There should be a line basically. Yeah. And if there is nobody there then yeah definitely I wouldn't be adventurous enough to try it at that particular stall. Yeah. So in terms of choosing restaurants we mostly just checked trip advisor to see what was in our area, what was highly rated and also the hotels we stayed in had pretty good restaurants as well. We were having a lot of curries and thali sets. And you can also get recommendations from the staff at hotels. Another thing to check out would be like for instance food blogs on particular cities. And if you're going to totally wing it again apply the same standards that you would to street food. Go to a place that looks busy, that has a high turnover rate, that has a lot of locals eating there. And in terms of beverages we just stuck to bottled water and sodas. Yeah, beer sometimes. Sometimes beer. Haha. Beer is quite expensive in India but. We ordered sodas and we noticed that in two instances we got bottles that were already expired so maybe just check the expiry date before you guzzle like half a litre of coke. Yeah, that is a good tip. And yeah some people go as far as brushing their teeth only with bottled water. I didn't do that. Yeah we weren't that strict but if you want to be that kind of precaution is something you could think of as well. Time to discus health. Thoughts on staying healthy in India. Yeah, thoughts on staying healthy in India. Well, I mean to be brutally honest it is tough to go for a long trip in India without having any some sort of digestive issue. Yes.
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