Well hello hello. It has been a while since we made a video.
We are now back in Canada having finished our India trip about a month ago. Yeah, it is kind of confession time. I think we've been home for actually even longer. More like 6 or 7 weeks. It has been a while. It has been a while. I almost feel camera shy. Like we haven't recorded ourselves in a really long time so yeah check this website. We've been back in Canada for a while now. And we've been editing all of the video footage we've shot in India and now that we're done with that we thought we should share a few travel tips for India and just maybe talk a little bit more about our experiences. So that is what our video is going to be like. We're going to be doing also kind of like a budget breakdown so if you see us staring down at our computers that is what we're doing. Yeah exactly and this will be a little bit different than the city guide tips we did because we're doing this kind of as a general country. The whole country. For all of India. Yeah. Let's get started. So first up let's talk money matters and the exchange. So right the currency exchange is $1 USD = 64 Rupees. Yeah. Exactly. And India can be as cheap or as expensive destination as you want it to be. Yes. Back in 2010, the first time I visited India, I was an ultra hardcore backpacker. And I think for like the entire month if I remember correctly I spent less than five hundred US dollars so it was one of the cheapest destinations I've ever been to. But on this particular trip we were like more in the mid-range section I would say. Yeah, I would say we stayed in 3 star hotels. Yeah, most of the time. The majority of the time. So just to give you guys an idea of what you can expect to spend. A cup of chai on a train is $0.15 cents. If you're staying in a dorm room those start for as little as $2 dollars. Super cheap. Yeah. Super cheap. Super cheap. If you're going to be staying in a 3 star hotel like what we were doing those were usually about $25 US dollars. And you can plus or minus ten to fifteen dollars depending where you are. In a really big city it is going to be a bit more. Like Delhi and Kolkata were more. But in some of the smaller places we went to like Jaisalmer and Jodhpur it was a little bit cheaper. Yeah, so. And when we were eating out in restaurants having a vegetarian dinner for 4 people that was usually around $10 dollars. So very affordable. And again you can get cheaper with that or also more expensive too. So yeah, India is a great country to fit any kind of budget to be honest. You can travel with next to nothing or you can go luxury the whole way. In terms of travel in India in this exact moment one particular thing that you should be aware of as a traveler is the demonetization and cash crisis issue. When we were traveling certain ATMs didn't have cash and the reason being that certain old bills were demonetized.
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