If you don’t say the opposite, almost all of the meals will deliver to your plate spicy. But in India things are just the opposite.
If you like to have spicy one, you should tell that “Mine will be spicy please”. Therefore, when you order a food, you don’t say your food to be no-spicy. So, you don’t expect your meal to be served spicy to your table. You know that meals to be no-spicy is a rule, to be spicy is an exception in our country. That moment you understand no-spicy meal perception is relative Of course if you can protect your mental health until that time. Be ready for telling your problem 10 people separately, all of them to shake their heads and talk with others among themselves in their own language and them to look back to you, shake their heads, make no explanation. I do not know how far its root goes but do not expect your problem to be solved in a short time. A lot of tourists say that this is based on occupations and exploitations Indian culture was exposed to. But surely it will take more time to understand why these people have no access to the toilet…Īnother thing you will often hear from the people who have gone to India will be most probably various stories about that people cannot take initiatives. You will be get used to this scene and pee smell on the street in a few weeks in the country where most of the population -sadly- do not have access to the toilet.
It is normal and possible to see people who urinates in public and defecates on the street. I strongly recommend that read the article “Hitchhiking in India” to minimize the possibility of that somebody demands money after you have gone for kilometers.Īnother funny things that can only happen in India is their comfortableness about meeting the need of using toilet. You made it very clear that you are hitchhiking, but it didn’t finish yet. I do not know why, but people here somehow do not want to accept the truth of that tourists hitchhike.
If you would like to hitch hike in India, first you need to assure drivers about that you do not want to get in a taxi. Because in this country which does not recycle collectively, the only way of these plastic bottles to be reutilized is leaving them on the street in order to be found by who needs them, or granting them to sugar cane juice sellers. While you are walking on the India streets, if you shrink your plastic bottles, locals may react you. Have no doubt about you will be very popular even with your casual clothes.īeing exposed to different kinds of recycling techniques By the way, you don’t need to exaggerate your clothing. If you have ever dreamed about to feel like a famous person at least in a period of your life, India is the most correct place for you. Especially, if you are a light-skinned and colored-eyed woman, be ready for running from one selfie to another. To take a selfie with tourists is the main of what Indian people loves most. But let’s see, will you be able to understand that difference?Įxcuse me sir, do you have moment to take a selfie? That shake can mean different things for them up to the condition of concrete case. I am sure that it has not been seen anywhere else in the world people shake their heads with the same rhythm.
There is an unusual surprise waiting for those who don’t watch Indian TV series. If you are watching Indian TV series, you may be familiar with shaking head reflex, a national move pertained to India.
At once I was at the weeding in a church, it took half hour me to understand the priest was talking in English in the sermon in fact. Even though you talk in the same language, you may never understand what they say. Their accent just makes to understand their words. Don’t let me be misunderstood, they are perfect English speakers.
Have you ever met with someone whose native language is Indian and speaking English? If your answer is no, it is so normal that you to give an error, trying to understand what they are saying. Let’s have a look at the funny things about India I am not sure what you read will convince you to go to India, but if you have a small thought as “Should I go there?” I think you should definitely use that opportunity to go to this colorful awesome country. These things will change your mind and prove that how sympathetic India actually is. If you have always heard negative things about India, just have a look at funny things that can only happen in India.