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| Tips, do's and dont's for women for India travel |
Carry a pepper spray and a taser, after checking with law enforcement, airline and immigration authorities.
Carry a whistle on your key chain. Carry a battery operated personal alarm on your key chain or a lanyard.
Find out the phone number of your hotel in India and enter it in your cellphone even before you land in India.
Basic smartphones are inexpensive in India, buy one soon after you land in India and load it up with a one or two sim cards and enough usage money.
Contact the hotel prior to your arrival in India and find out the names of reliable transportation providers.
Ask your Indian hotel or guesthouse to book a taxi or auto-rickshaw for transfers to bus and rail stations. The hotel staff is likely to know a reliable taxi or auto-rickshaw company and drivers.
Women should not wear skin hugging trousers in India.
Drink boiled water or you will be shitting several times a day for days or weeks before ending up in a hospital with questionable standards.
Use the pre-paid taxi counters at Indian airports and pay up for air-conditioned vehicles.
Even if you don't have a hotel booked, behave as if you do. Ask to be dropped off somewhere in particular and take it from there.
Make sure your room has a proper bolt on the inside of the door. Travel with a rubber doorstop or door alarm to foil intruders.
Most Indian cities seem to have a growing problem with eve-teasing so use the women-only carriage on the metro and lines for tickets etc.
Stay off the street after dark. Do what Indian women do, take a taxi or rickshaw to a restaurant as Indian women do.
Public toilets will stink, deal with it. Keep a hand sanitizer.
To avoid hawkers, wear sunglasses and keep walking. Throw in a firm NO when necessary.
Females, specially white women, must never travel alone in India at any time of the day.
Do not wear skimpy or revealing clothing. Avoid spaghetti strap tops, long see-through cotton skirts and shorts. Again, no shorts for women in India even though the climate may call for it. For Indian men, white women are a novel and highly desirable sexual stimulus because of hair, skin and eye color and they would want to tap it, they very likely don't get as much as they would like.
Do not even think about showing any side bra, cleavage or side boob.
Less makeup is better, it wont run off because of the heat. Its safer too.
Beware of pickpockets.
Secure your handbag properly positioning it on your hips and not to the sides around the shoulder.
Walk in front of your boyfriend or husband so that he can keep an eye on you. Ask your boyfriend or hubby to grow a mohawk and color it in red before your visit to India! If your companion is a big guy, you are likely to do much better.
Wear a bra or even better, a bro, even though the weather might call for going braless. Less is safe, skip the padded bra.
Do not wear high heels. Go with sneakers or sandals. You want to be able to run if you get into trouble.
Cover your butt with a long shirt. A sleeved shirt is safer than a sleeveless shirt, it will keep the mosquitoes and Indian men away.
Do not be too friendly with Indian men who approach you at tourist sights or with hotel staff. Instead strike up conversations with the Indian women. Ask women for directions/information instead of men.
Do not confront ogling Indian males, you will have to deal with a lot of ogling. It may be seen as a come-on. Instead avert your eyes down and away. This signals that you have no interest in further interaction; walk away.
Do not accept alcoholic drinks from strangers in India. To be safe, do not accept any food or drinks from strangers.
Indian women rarely drink or smoke in public - even in hotel bars - so beware of any man who invites you to do so.
Do not walk in the Indian countryside on your own. If you must, always have a mobile at hand and a speed-dial number to call for help. Use it - even to make a fake call - as soon as you start feeling uncomfortable.
Do not ever wear thongs or skimpy bikinis to Indian beaches. Wear a great grandma one piece that covers your lady parts and then some.
Do not chat up skull cap wearing Indian men with long longish beards if you are white. In fact, just avoid Muslim men and women. You should be able to identify them by their names if you can't by sight. Assume the worst given the geopolitical scenario and theology.
Finally, ask yourself, why the fook do you want to visit India? If you want to go as a tourist, don't; go somewhere else. If its business that must be done, you gotta do what you gotta do, you should be okay since the majority population is Hindu who are tolerant and respectful of Western culture.
Carry a whistle on your key chain. Carry a battery operated personal alarm on your key chain or a lanyard.
Find out the phone number of your hotel in India and enter it in your cellphone even before you land in India.
Basic smartphones are inexpensive in India, buy one soon after you land in India and load it up with a one or two sim cards and enough usage money.
Contact the hotel prior to your arrival in India and find out the names of reliable transportation providers.
Ask your Indian hotel or guesthouse to book a taxi or auto-rickshaw for transfers to bus and rail stations. The hotel staff is likely to know a reliable taxi or auto-rickshaw company and drivers.
Women should not wear skin hugging trousers in India.
Drink boiled water or you will be shitting several times a day for days or weeks before ending up in a hospital with questionable standards.
Use the pre-paid taxi counters at Indian airports and pay up for air-conditioned vehicles.
Even if you don't have a hotel booked, behave as if you do. Ask to be dropped off somewhere in particular and take it from there.
Make sure your room has a proper bolt on the inside of the door. Travel with a rubber doorstop or door alarm to foil intruders.
Most Indian cities seem to have a growing problem with eve-teasing so use the women-only carriage on the metro and lines for tickets etc.
Stay off the street after dark. Do what Indian women do, take a taxi or rickshaw to a restaurant as Indian women do.
Public toilets will stink, deal with it. Keep a hand sanitizer.
To avoid hawkers, wear sunglasses and keep walking. Throw in a firm NO when necessary.
Females, specially white women, must never travel alone in India at any time of the day.
Do not wear skimpy or revealing clothing. Avoid spaghetti strap tops, long see-through cotton skirts and shorts. Again, no shorts for women in India even though the climate may call for it. For Indian men, white women are a novel and highly desirable sexual stimulus because of hair, skin and eye color and they would want to tap it, they very likely don't get as much as they would like.
Do not even think about showing any side bra, cleavage or side boob.
Less makeup is better, it wont run off because of the heat. Its safer too.
Beware of pickpockets.
Secure your handbag properly positioning it on your hips and not to the sides around the shoulder.
Walk in front of your boyfriend or husband so that he can keep an eye on you. Ask your boyfriend or hubby to grow a mohawk and color it in red before your visit to India! If your companion is a big guy, you are likely to do much better.
Wear a bra or even better, a bro, even though the weather might call for going braless. Less is safe, skip the padded bra.
Do not wear high heels. Go with sneakers or sandals. You want to be able to run if you get into trouble.
Cover your butt with a long shirt. A sleeved shirt is safer than a sleeveless shirt, it will keep the mosquitoes and Indian men away.
Do not be too friendly with Indian men who approach you at tourist sights or with hotel staff. Instead strike up conversations with the Indian women. Ask women for directions/information instead of men.
Do not confront ogling Indian males, you will have to deal with a lot of ogling. It may be seen as a come-on. Instead avert your eyes down and away. This signals that you have no interest in further interaction; walk away.
Do not accept alcoholic drinks from strangers in India. To be safe, do not accept any food or drinks from strangers.
Indian women rarely drink or smoke in public - even in hotel bars - so beware of any man who invites you to do so.
Do not walk in the Indian countryside on your own. If you must, always have a mobile at hand and a speed-dial number to call for help. Use it - even to make a fake call - as soon as you start feeling uncomfortable.
Do not ever wear thongs or skimpy bikinis to Indian beaches. Wear a great grandma one piece that covers your lady parts and then some.
Do not chat up skull cap wearing Indian men with long longish beards if you are white. In fact, just avoid Muslim men and women. You should be able to identify them by their names if you can't by sight. Assume the worst given the geopolitical scenario and theology.
Finally, ask yourself, why the fook do you want to visit India? If you want to go as a tourist, don't; go somewhere else. If its business that must be done, you gotta do what you gotta do, you should be okay since the majority population is Hindu who are tolerant and respectful of Western culture.
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