SPRINT!

[talktooloose]

Sorry I've been quiet but getting ready for this trip has been mind-bogglingly difficult. Of course, we're both really OCD about checking and re-checking every possible hotel 20 times in every guidebook and travel forum.

At this point, three days before we fly, we have all our trains booked and we have places to stay everywhere but Amritsar. If we don't nail down a hotel there, we can stay free in a dorm at the Golden Temple, the holiest site of Sikhdom. Frankly, I'm trying to get the air conditioned place across the road from the temple.

We're splurging in a couple of places, including Varanasi. Splurging in India means paying as much as $30 Canadian. I'll post some links to our hotels if I have a minute. HA!

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[painglass.livejournal.com]

Ouch on the airfare...but yay on the cheapness of everything else! I hear Thialand and Vietnam are much the same- expensive to fly to, but dirt cheap once you're there. A friend of a friend spent a month in the lap of luxury (so they said) for about $10 American a week in Thailand. Makes me want to get tickets to India and Asia and not come back til my $200 in spending cash is gone. Heh. :P

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

They are all unforgettable trips which give you a completely different perspective on life. I want to go to Vietnam and Thailand, too!