From Kuala Lumpur I flew Air Asia to Kochi, located the southern state of Kerala in India. “Incredible India”, as its tourism slogan says, has been very high on the list of countries I wanted to visit and I finally made it! My first impressions were: “Crazy traffic, a different world, very interesting and cheap”!!! India is known to the outside world as a dirty country with low hygiene standards, which in one way is true but you just have to be a bit careful where you eat. There are plenty of small, simple restaurants and if a restaurant is usually busy, that means it’s good and safe to eat at. Meals are very cheap and you could budget around US$ 7 per day for food, but you could get away with even less than that.
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