Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Everyone's got a travel tip.

So as I prepare to embark on this journey I am trying to get as much information about travelling to India as I can possible find. Surfing the web requires so little effort so I'm mostly looking there. In my 'research' I came across a website called Heart Space. When I typed in 'tips for travelling to India' in Google, it was the first link on top of the list, so I thought...must be good right?
Oh boy. Not sure how to get a website to appear top of the list but...can't be too hard.

It pains me to post the link, I don't want to entice more hits than it already has -- 40,000 too many already, but it needs to be said. The guy that wrote this is completely bonkers, and among other things is completely culturally incompetent and racist. What's worse is that on his home page (may I remind you the site is called Heart Space )he claims that his site is for the 'spiritually awakened'. He posts his poetry and shit like that.

In his 'travel tips' he talks about the 'Indians' as though he was seeing them from his car as he is travelling through Park Safari. You know, the zoo where you can drive through it and touch or feed the animals?
Yeah, that's it. It's exactly like that.
Apparently enlightenment means different things for different people.
Sheesh. Here's the link.

Lesson: just cause it's on the web...

Back to researching travel tips, this time, reading this.

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