(BackPack Diary: Some Backpacking ground Rules)
As I set on this journey, I had set myself certain basic, ground rules to follow:
- Stay: at youth hostels, home-stays or guest houses, in that order of priority.
- Travel: by shared modes like buses, taxis and auto.
- Eat: the local cuisine, and preferably at home-stays or home-cum-restaurant kind of setups.
- Interact: as much as feasible with other people.
- Observe: the local culture & customs and avoid the tourist circuit as much as possible. Its okay not to visit any 'recommended' spot.
- Don't Buy: any memorabilia, curio or trinkets to avoid adding further weight to the 15kg backpack that I had set out with.
All the above create opportunities to interact with other travellers or locals, ensure acclimatization, apart from going easy on the pocket. Many of these also needed some tuning-out of the typical city-mode of persona, which was also a desirable thing to do, even beyond the trip.
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