Planning a trip to India can be confusing for many potential travelers, particularly women. The news about safety in India is a lot like traveling in the country itself – often contradictory, alluring, sometimes downright scary. To help answer any questions you may have about traveling in India as a woman, I recently spoke with Cristina Boronat on the foXnoMad Podcast.
Cristina spent over 2 years traveling in India, most of it solo, and we spoke about her experiences plus advice on how to dress, her India bucket list, and more in the episode you can listen to here or watch in the video above.
We even got to ponder whether or not my two India scams videos would have been potentially (more) dangerous if I were a woman.
There’s a lot packed into this episode for both men and women planning a trip including the single best piece of advice for visiting India, applicable worldwide. For those of you who’ve been to India the conversation will take you back through the calm and chaos to put a smile on your face.
There is no doubt about it that everyone should travel to India as it is a beautiful country and if you want to explore it as a solo it is a great way to do it. The only thing is that you should take some precaution before travelling to India.
My lesson learned after traveling to India by myself was: Next time book hotels in advance. I’m not sure if you’re allowed to nowadays, but, if possible, buy your transport tickets already ahead of time. Avoid 3rd class in the train. Stick to 1st or 2nd class.
Delhi’s train station was a very challenging place for me to buy a train ticket, ended up jumping in a train with no ticket after 4 fail attempts (one attempt per day), and then, once in the train, they just gave me a small fine (if I had known that was it, I would have done that after the 1st failed attempt).
You can still book tickets in advance in most cases – but good advice (and sounds like more than a few good travel stories you got out of it as well… intentionally or not 😉
nice post. Thanks for making the people aware about the things need to know for females who are travelling solo.