If there is one word that best describes India, it is vibrancy. You will discover why this word becomes the right choice when you get here. But before you do, a few things that you should know about Indians because forewarned is forearmed! Jokes apart, you do need some preparation if you’re on your first India tour and this preparation has little to do with reading those books in the country and charging your cameras to click the elephants, tantriks and snake charmers who think you’ll bump into the minute you leave the airport! Now although there are different things one has to consider in preparing for an India tour, a top priority is preparing your stomachs!
So one of the first things you will discover is an Indian’s knack and enthusiasm to feed people. Especially if you are anywhere is the Golden Triangle cities, you will envy the cow for its four stomachs! You will learn soon after your first meal in India that you need to start saying no to servings soon before your stomach is full, because it is after your first vehement “no” that Indians stuff you with your last two courses! In Rajasthan a refusal to eat means, “I can’t at anymore by myself so you need to stuff my mouth!” Another thing is, Indians and their food habits vary depending on where you are. So if you’ve just attuned your stomach to downing a fat-laden breakfast in the north of India at 10, you’ll have to re-regulate your stomach to downing fluffy rice cakes at 7 in the morning in the south of the country. And when it comes to variety in the South, you have rice for breakfast, rice for lunch and you guessed it well, rice for dinner as well! Nonetheless, Indian cuisines are a journey in themselves and even if you have to tours to India as a food connoisseur, you will be very, very far from disappointed!