Travelling to India Tips
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Basics
- Passport
- Airline Tickets
- 500 USD cash
- 200 USD in traveller's checks
- Electricity convertor
- Lots of earplugs (bring some on plane!)
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Clothes
- pants, shorts
- windbreaker
- sweatshirt
- Rain poncho
- Hats (with decent size brims)
- Small umbrella
- Sunglasses
- Flip-flops
- sneakers
- Hiking sneakers
- short/long sleeved shirts
- 7 days socks/underwear
- Bathing suit
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Miscellaneous
- Garbage/cloth bag for dirty clothes
- Wire fishing line for tying up things
- Little camera, big camera, holders
- Small camera tripod
- Reading material
- Magic marker to mark film canisters
- Reading glasses
- Notepads
- Screwdriver for glasses
- Small magnifying glass
- Sandwich bags
- Scissors
- Immersion heater for heating water
- Cleaning cloth for glasses
- Small needle and thread kit
- Glue
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Travel Aids
- Lonely Planet Guidebook
- Rough Guide Guidebook
- Lonely Planet Hindu Phrase book
- Sheets for ashram stays
- Blow up pilllow
- Sleeping bag pouch (for dirty hotel beds)
- Backpack for day trips, walking around
- Map of India
- Reading light
- Small calculator (for money conversion)
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Health and Hygiene
- First Aid kit
- Doxycline (all purpose antiobiotic, especially good for 'traveller's diarrhea)
- Immodium-AD
- Swiss-Criss (natural laxative)
- Sunscreen
- Melatonin (natural sleeping and jet-lag agent, highly recommended, sets body rythms to local time)
- Kyolic (garlic medicine)
- Nutrobiotic (natural antibiotic made from grapefruit seeds)
- Vitamin B,C
- Tissues: Small packages
- Bactine-like products
- Disinfectant liquid (in hand-soap dispenser, very useful)
- Towelettes for hands
- Nail clippers (never bite your nails in India!)
- Mylanta (indigestion medicine)
- Bandaids
- Oscillococcinum (Homeopathic flu medicine)
- Pepto-Bismol tablets (very useful!)
- Chlorella tablets, spirulina
- Throat Lozenges
- Mosquito repellant
- Hypodermic needles (in case you have to go to the hospital)
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Security
- Flashlights
- Knives (Swiss/multi-purpose, other sharp knife)
- Cable lock
- Small locks (always keep all bags locked)
- Money belt and/or passport pouch
- Clock radio alarm device (check Sharper Image)
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Journalling
- Dictaphone and tape
- Laptop computer
- Floppy disks
- Extra laptop battery
- Airmail paper
- Several good pens
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Food
- High protein snacks (peanut butter, nuts)
- Dried soups/dehydrated food
- Herbal teas
- Turkey-jerky (for a quick protein pickup)
- Energy bars
- Comfort food
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