Traveling to Mumbai, India

[Tajin]

Why the paranoia with the water in India? (all of asia?)

[The Stig]

Check posts #18 and 19:

Most countries don't purify the water the way the US/Canada/Europe does. It's full of parasites and is pretty much guaranteed to make you sick since your body is not used to it at all.

The problem is (and I am not joking) fecal matter and other horrible parasites in the water. Plates, clothes, etc. are usually washed using soap or chemicals which kills much of the nasty stuff. However, you would not be drinking soapy chemical water out of the tap, and who do you know that adds anything to the water before they use it to wash off food? Bathing in it isn't an issue, assuming you don't drink any of it.

It's almost like a fun game assuming that any water not in a sealed plastic bottle is a terrible poison laxative cocktail! Just imagine the worst shits you have ever had in your life, multiple by two, and then take 18+ hours of flights home. It keeps you paranoid enough not to risk it, especially since I know a coworkers wife got horribly sick the night before they were scheduled to return home. Feels bad man.

[Acevalefor]

Why the paranoia with the water in India? (all of asia?)

In my case, I saw enough of what happens in the river by my hotel to never ever drink any local water in India. They piss, shit, do their laundry, wash themselves, dump their garbage, let the cattle wallow, and probably many other things in the rivers.

Even the locals would not drink the water. They had bottled water from Germany shipped in to the company. Several pallets of water bottles sat in storage at the company I was working for.

[Firedemon]

Reading through this thread makes me NEVER want to go to India, fuck that shit.

[Vaspinne]

Edit: Just read you came back. Disregard what I had originally posted

I went a couple years ago and had a crazy experience. Lots of bad, from guys trying to steal our camera, beggars hounding and actually following us for hours begging for money, and seeing people piss and spit and blow their nose anywhere and everywhere.

But there was a lot of good too, lots of amazing history still intact from centuries ago, lots of nice people, lots of crazy experiences you couldn't get anywhere else. It is heart wrenching seeing the big gap though in social classes. I remember driving down a road in Mumbai, looking to the left and seeing skyscrapers and industry and wealth, and then looking to the right and seeing shacks made of scraps of tin and fabric and anything people in the slums could get their hands on. It's astounding how both advanced and behind the country is.

And the amount of people asking for money, it's nuts. I was in a desert with my family (I forget where abouts exactly ><), and this family from the area was walking up to where a bunch of people (ourselves included) had gathered to watch the sunset. These 3 kids were tossing a ball around and when they got close enough, they tossed it to me. I tossed it back to one of them, and they tossed it around again before tossing it to me once again. This happened a couple times before they finally got close enough to ask me to pay them for playing catch with them, lol. They were cheeky kids, but it was pretty entertaining

[richardd]

did you eat any roti?

[Vaspinne]

did you eat any roti?

Me or Ace? If you're asking me, I'm brown, so I eat roti on a regular basis, including in India