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For a holiday to India is it better to take precautions against DTP, Hepatitus A, Bellytyfus, Bilharzia and Malaria. Only drink water out bottles, because you can't drink crane water. You must have a valid passport and a visum to travel through India.

* extra knowledge

* The traffic drives on the left sight. * The english is based on Oxfort English. * The post code excist out of 6 numbers. * The capital New Delhi has an surface of 3287263 km2.* The higgest point in India is 8598 m(kanchenjunga). * The lowest point in India is 0 m and that's the niveau of the sea. * India has got 984 milion inhabitans. * the language that official spoken is Hindi. But the languages which are the most spoken there are: telugu, bengali, marathi, tamil, urdu, gujarati and English.

Buddhism

Buddhism is founded by Gautam Buddha in the 5th century. You need to do several things to believe right in Buddha. The believe in rebirth and karma. After the passing away of the Buddha several schism took place in the Buddhist oder.

Christianity

Christianity don't excist only in India. It's the biggest religion in the world. Christians believe in God. God made this world in six days. He let his sun die for the sints of his peoples. Christians believe in the bible. It is made by people but God said what they need to write down. They belive that when you die, you'll live through in heaven.

Climate of India

India has different climates. In the south a tropical climate and in the Nord a moderate climate. The biggest part of India has a moesson climate. India knows three seasons: The cool season: october till Februari. The hot season: march till June.The rain season: the middle of June till September. The city Delhi has 640mm rain a year. there are also city's which has 3040mm rain a year. It's not all the same.

Cook in India

The indian people eat much different than the people in Holland. The Indian people have many meanings with the food that they eat. For instance food can have a cleaning aspect. Their food is much spicier. Most dutchman don't like the very spicy food in India. Here is a recipe to bring a little bit of India back in Holland. Kip Kerrie: Cut the pieces of chicken in pieces oof 5 cm.Cut the onion and guarlic in small slices and chop the ginger. Heat the Ghee and fruit the onions glassy.Add garlic and the ginger, let them bake with everything for one minute, than add the chicken. Let them colore a bit golden brown. Add every spices and let it bake for 5 minutes. serve some wather or buillion to it, that the chicken is covered. Let it cook till all the fluid is practicly gone and till the chicken is done. scatter sald and pepper to it. And serve again wather ore buillion in the chicken. Till it covered of course Let it cook for 20 minutes and scatter one gramme of garam masale to it and throw some lemon juice above it.

  • Cook Recepies, to bring a bit India in your home

Festival In India.

If you're Are in Jaipur in march. Try to go to one of the festivels. For instance the gangaur festival. It celibrates the end of the winter and the beginning of the spring. This festival also celibrates the wedding.

India History

The fist people who attacked India where the Ariers (1500 B.c.). They took over the Ganges Valley. The second attack(500 B.c.) was by the kings Serius and Darius. The took over the Indus Valley. They had less influence than the Ariers. Because then came Alexander the Great a Greek. After a several years went the greeks away. Chandragupta the second took over de whole north. There came a golden era. They build much temples. The moslims attacked the country in 1192 with Mohammed van Ghor. He had om 1202 the most powerfull kingdom of the hindus conquered. When he died the Islamtisch india fell apart. In 1530 came akbar. He became the biggest mongolen ruler of India. In 1707 Shah died and that's why the mongool realm fell apart. In 1947 Ghandi maked sure that the brittisch people went away out of India. There came big fights between hindus and moslim. Lot's of peoples died through that fight. Ghandi Was killed in 1948. His friend became the prime minister of India

India in general

India is one of the biggest countries in the world. Indian people call there country Bharatiya. The total surface of India is 3,1 milion square kilometer. And that's why India is almost 97 times bigger then Holland. The neighbours of the country are: bangladesh, china, Nepal and Pakistan. India had more than an million habitans. India is from the Nord till The south 3250 km.

Jainism

Jainism is one of the oldest religions of the world. They don't believe in one God. They believe in Karma. They believe that what you think causes bad things that happens in the world, like violence and anger.

Kovalam

Kovalam is a familiar bathing place on the coast of India. It's set al the way down on the piont of India. It's the most beautifull city of the countries india. There are a lot of palms en beautiful beaches. Tourism isn't a lot here, so for the people who don't want to go to a city with a lot of tourism it's a perfect place to go to. But for the youth there's not much nightlive, the're no disco's.

Landscapes of india

Between the Indian subcontinent and China in the north, are high mountains which are a part of the Himalaya Mountains.The himalaya mountains are around 8000 m (!). In the west goes the Himalaya mountains over in the Karakoram Mountains. Not much people live her but the mountains are very important for the population. Many rivers, who make fertile fields, come out the Himalaya mountains. The Ganges is a saint river for the Hindoes. The Ganges come from origin out the Himalaya Mountains. The river is 2510km long and stream through Bangladesh to See. At the Malaba coast grows in the west a tropical rainforest. The higgest top of the threes in the rainforest are around the 1700 m.

Meaning of the flag of india

The orange in the Indian flag is for reunification. The white represend truth and peace. And the grean represend the relation between a human being and the nature. The central wheel represend changing.

Money

The people in India pay with "the roepie". 59,44 Indian Roepie = 1euro. That's unter the price level of the Dutch notions. Bargain is quite normal in India. You must pay to get in special buildings. If you want to make a film you must pay for that also.

Religions of India; Hinduisme

Religion is very important in India.That's why there are lots of different religions in India. Exemples are: Hinduisme, Christianity, sikhisme and jainism. We going to explain hiduisme first.They believe in this religion that the minds from a body that passed out,revives in a new body. Hindus always were a colered dot on there forhead. This stands for piety. This dot is the third eye of god. Hindus are very aware of the nature and they respect everything that's in it.

Sikhism

Sikhs believe in one God, he's the creator of the universe. They pray and sing to honour him.You must keep your soul pure, you do that to keep you on several rules.The holy book of the Sikhs is the Guru Grand Sahib and the parts of this book apeared chronological.

Sports in India

The official national sport in India is Hockey. The most populair sport in India is cricket. That's a onofficial national sport. It's the most polulairest sport in India. Sports who are also very populair are(which we also know): Tennis, badminton and chess. They think that playing chess starded in India.

Stays

The hotels in India are very cheap. At leace when you stay in an local Hotel. For instance for one night you pay 8 Euro for a middle class Hotel.

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The capital: New Delhi.

There are more than 14 milion people that live in old and New Delhi. As you'd understand Delhi is split in two parts. New Delhi is founded in the 19th century by the britains because they wanted to make a new capital. Between 17th 19th century was Old delhi the capital of the Moslims. that's why the're much monuments and moskeeen. The red fort is set in Old Delhi. If you are in Delhi you must see it, it was very important in the hirstory in India.

The postion of the women

The women in India aren't treated well. Most of the time there the ones of their familie that work the hardest. If a girl is born. Most of the women are trying to get pregnant again, and they continue to do this till they are pregnant of a boy. The little girl get murdered most of the time, because her mother can pay attention on her son. Women are way fatser ill than men. That's because men get help when there starting to get ill. Women need to wait till there really ill. Women, most of the time, don't get education. That's how they arrive in a circle. The women don't earn money. The children need to work --> children don't get education. the children from that children must work etc. etc. when a women marries a men they almost can't dicorse him. They need to stay with them. That's why divorse is very rare in India. So many Women in India are beadly treated.

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Travel information

your ticket is your expensivest part of your journey. You must searchj well to find a cheap offer to kovalam. That's a very touristic place. You miss something when yoú weren't ever been there. A retour from a'dam to trivandrum ,were the airpoirt is, Cost 700 Euro's but if you don't pay attention you could pay much more for the same journey. for instance 2000 Euro's. A handy tip is to look on internet on English sites to book your ticket there. In the past India was a colony of England. That's why England is specialiced in Tickets to India. Further is India very cheap. For instance you pay for three weeks kovalam ,inc. flight and Hotel, 900 Euro's. It's worth it do go.

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