1.      Russian do not speak English.
2.      Russian do not travel one by one - only the organized groups (since Soviet times was held in remembrance).
3.      Russian love a cold (because the country at them cold). Here also come to India for a short while!
4.      Russian drink much.
5.      Russian - not so rich people (well, not such rich, as Englishmen). But generous!
6.      Russian buy all - in plenty! And not bargaining! Because time has not enough, and money « on such » it is not a pity!
7.      It is necessary to tell it in Russian magic words «privetkakdila» and «zakhadipasmatri» - instant will sweep away a half-bench!
8.      Russian are easily conducted on any “divorces” for tourists. Because do not read horror stories in English-speaking guidebooks and have no sufficient experience in trips.
9.      Russian like to play on drums (a phrase « buy a drum! » Know and sellers in all “tourist” places of India) like to repeat.
10.      Russian - unpredictable, reckless people, quick-tempered and easily appeased. From them it is possible to wait for everything. With them it is interesting!

Many Russians go to India simply because it fashionably. All of them routes are approximately identical: or « the Gold Triangle » (Delhi - Agra - Jaipur), or up to Goa and back. And all of them histories are similar, as некрашеные nested dolls: we have arrived, the horror-horror means, there, and there, and have then gone to Goa, and there cool-cool, and here that we there have bought, and now let’s a photo look. In photos it is obligatory to eat cows, monkeys, bearded muzhiks in orange cloths, women in sari and artly issued urns with inscription USE ME.
It is not necessary to think, that модничанье it is typical only for Russian. On command of a fashion to India go both Englishmen, and Germans, both the Frenchmen, and Israelis, but the difference all is. The western dandies are inclined to plan in good time the routes, to collect the information, to be reserved by guidebooks and medicines, and at last, they are able to speak English (and in India this language of the second state, local residents well understand it). Russian often go “at random”, not having taken with itself even a card of India, and with English at them thus is worse, than badly. Approximately as the Tver merchant Athanasius Nikitin travelled in due time, and in it there is any charm. In fact at such approach even banal excursion in Tadzh-Mahal the usual trip by train from Delhi to Goa - in « circulation for three seas » which then it is possible to recollect all life turns to the Adventure from the big letter, and.

It can seem paradox: someone goes to India behind adventures, and someone - behind silence and rest. Actually the paradox here is not present - India is great and various. In the north +10 °C, and in the south +30 °C; on Delhi streets dirty cows wander, and under streets fly by silent trains of the supermodern underground. Everyone can find here that is necessary for it, it is necessary only the nobility where to search. And, certainly, it is necessary to be able to bargain.
Michael, the architect from Chelyabinsk, excellently knows where what to search in India and that here than. It in this country not first time and not the first year; in native city it is known under a nickname the Hindu. Michael visits Russia for a short while and only when there are problems with the visa or with money. It spends summer in the north of India, winters in the south - in the same way, as the majority hindu sunyasi (the wanderers looking enlightenments). In gifts stops seldom - prefers to remove rooms at owners of houses, because so more cheaply and more easy. To live on $5 in day considers as excessive luxury. In the past to year it has brought the young wife to India and now sometimes lives together with it, and sometimes they will leave and travel separately. From time to time Michael does any architectural project or it is arranged with the construction superintendent on construction, but for a short while, it in fact not behind it has arrived to India.
$5 is 200 indian rupees. For this money it is possible to buy 40 flat cakes chapati, either fifty bananas, or 20 packages of vermicelli Wai Wai, either a half a kilogram of drawn butter, or five gram of hashish. For 200 rupees it is possible to live one day in very decent double room with all convenience, or two-rub days in not so decent single room with partial convenience, or to pass 150-200 kilometers by the local bus (absolutely without convenience) or to drink half-litre of local rum. Simple calculation shows, that if to not drink some rum, in India, really, it is possible to live cheaply and easy.
Simeon, the commodity researcher from Perm, - the person taking a great interest. It happened to it to take a great interest both alcohol, and stimulators, and gamblings Earlier, and now it has taken a great interest in the Himalayas. Together with the wife and the 8-years daughter it has lodged in a mountain small village which foreign tourists have only just started to master. The family rents half of three-tier house with all convenience, they have everything, that is necessary (including the Internet), the girl goes to local school, in English speaks already better then parents. In the neighborhood there lives the owner of the house, 60-years Ramesh which in a youth too took a great interest than has got, but by an old age has become staid and finally married on local поселянке. Ramesha’s Son - coeval Semenov’s  daughter, after school usually spends time at Simeon so at it now as though two children, plus still a facilities and the Internet - in the general, to miss is no time. Simeon speaks About itself, that at last has started to live humanly. Disturb it only two questions: How to prolong the visa in it to year and where to take money for continuation of rest. But also that, and another, basically, is solved.

« Why India? » - a sacramental question which continually it is necessary to answer the travellers who have come back therefrom, or only there gathering, or once again prolonging the Indian visa.
And here answers which continually should be heard from such travellers:
«BECAUSE it is DREAM of ALL my LIFE!»
For many Russian travel to India begins how they sit down in the plane. Roerich’s pictures, novels Ефремова and Парнова, fairy tales Киплинга, агни-yoga, хатха-yoga, the Kama Sutra, an Ayurveda, and recently Krishnaism and tantrism. Well and at last, the Indian films which till now do not lie too long on counters. When you learn, that one your salary will suffice on flying there and back and to spend in the country of your favourite fairy tales the whole month, to resist to temptation it is simply impossible.
In the budget of travel to India the lion’s share is made with cost of air tickets. The visa costs $40, month of a life - without excesses, but also without ascetism - $400, but air carriers can request for the services $600-800, and even it is more than thousand. It does not mean, that cheap tickets to India do not exist, it means, that it is necessary to be able to search for them. Look narrowly more closely at offers of the Uzbek, Kazakh and Turkish airlines, be not afraid to fly with changes - such budgetary variant is ideal for students
« BECAUSE I LOVE ADVENTURES! »
The trip to India is an opportunity to feel (and also to smell and taste!) a reality which essentially differs from us known.
The trip to India is an opportunity to feel (and as to smell and taste!) a reality which essentially differs from us known. India - where apple juice is more dear mango. India - where marriages till now consist parents at the minimal participation of the groom and the bride. India - where is not present punks, but « the sacred person » without ceremony can enter into the bus in an orange loose overall with Shiva a trident. India - where impression and adventures wait for you continually.
Dmitry and Alain, hereditary muscovites, have handed over the apartment and already the third year travel about across India and its vicinities on motorcycle Royal Einfield. They have travelled the Himalayas, rose in Ladakh (5000 meters above sea level), crossed Thar desert, have got into Mizoram and Sikkim (a vicinity of a mythical Shambhala), not time happened in jungle of the Central India (where till now marvel to white people and strive to feel them), have swept across Nepal (at the height of Maoist revolutions) and even have risked to travel across Pakistan (and were convinced, that anything there terrible is not present). Their Hard disk portable is loaded gigabytes exotic photos which for a long time already should be disassembled, but somehow hands do not reach - probably, somehow then when adventures will end.
To travel across India on a motorcycle - employment not for nervous. Movement here noisy, chaotic and link sided, and rules of traffic at each driver the. For want of habit and ten kilometers to drive - already an adventure. However, in the price attitude the motorcycle is quite accessible: to buy second-hand it is possible for $600-800, and to rent per day - for $5-10. At rent for long term it is possible to manage to get essential discounts

Sasha, the student from St.-Petersburg, has ended the fifth rate and has decided to vanish in India. By plane it before never flied, therefore adventures have begun directly in air. Fellow travellers have suggested to drink some vodka, it has drunk and has dropped out of a reality. Has come to the senses already in Delhi. The stewardess has told, that it sat quietly and «anything such» did not do, behind it now there will arrive police. Sasha nevertheless has managed to run away, take away the luggage and to leave the airport. It almost did not know English language, the monthly stock of money has spent for a week and not too well represented what to do further. It has gathered was to go « on island Goa », but any kind tour operator has sold to it the ticket up to small town in the Himalayas where Indians gather in the summer to have a rest from heat. There Sasha has found Russian party, the present hashish and two brides - one of Lahore, other of Mumbay. Both girls willingly allowed to caress themselves, but business and is not has reached sex. But it managed to kiss a cobra who sat in a basket at fakirs, - here, will be to tell about what in Peter!
Goa is not island (as some Russian consider), and small staff at coast of Arabian sea, the size approximately about the Moscow area. Its infinite beaches have long since chosen hippie, behind them fans of electronic music were tightened, and for last thirty years of Goa has got glory of psychodelic paradise where sad laws of an objective reality do not operate and daily there are miracles. But now, similar, to miracles the end comes: authorities of staff have intended to transform Goa into a respectable resort for money-bags. Now in Goa disperse parties and struggle with drugs. And  prices for all already grown up to a Crimean level