Why 5,000 Rupees per day?

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Very recently, I applied for a United Kingdoms tourist short-stay visa, was not supposed to be a big thing since I have been in and out of pretty much all of UK / Great Britain / Wales / Scotland / Ireland North and not North / Hong Kong and a few of the British Territories / Commonwealth / Tax Havens also. Every time there were options to stay back; every time there were good reasons for not wanting to stay back.


At the same time, travel abroad does open ones eyes, and if one is observant as well as looking for the Truth - then there is so much history as well as science in travel. For me, navigation and astronomy were and still are important, as well as patterns in civil construction in older Houses of Religion which appear to be like open source repositories. For the curious.


And that I am. Asking questions at the risk of sounding foolish? No issues.


So anyways, by the time I submitted my UK Visa, and then applied to get my passport back, a lot of time had elapsed, almost two months, and I was 15,000 rupees down. A very good friend pointed out that this much money could have got us an easy 3 nights package somewhere - including travel - within India.


That got me thinking - this will be my benchmark because this was approximately the figure we ended up spending on road trips to places near wherever we had access to a car.


No other reason. If I am able to do holidays in India for less than 5000/- rupees per day; and a very good friend who is also an ex-shippie has volunteered to try to do this with me for North India, then I shall write about those too.


For now, 5,000 rupees per day per couple is the benchmark, in reasonable comfort, safety and happiness. Onwards!!


ps: I had to pay a large amount of money, almost 5,000/- rupees all inclusive, to get my passport back. Without the visa.

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