It is a shame that no Indian city is featured in the article when there are countries representing Africa and poor asia...really shame on Indian bureaucrats.
Great list and justifiably London triumps ! Its the year of London - Queens Jubilee followed by the Olympics . Welcome to the most amazing city in the world - it all happens here .
Re: London 2012 - Its all happening here
by Guy on May 07, 2012 06:22 PM
What gheewalla, what is the year of London..just becasue of Olympics.What abt the security threat, especially from Gheewalals
Re: destinations
by tik tak on May 06, 2012 01:27 PM
dude, the moment tourists land in india, all they experience is cheating taxis/rickshaw driver, filthy hygiene and overpopulated cities.
How about first bringing to notice all the beautiful spots in India so that even Indians can appreciate the beauty of India. Now blindly they go to foreign locations and come back and critsize everything and place that is Indian as if they have come from the holiest and pretiest place. I have no admiration for people who without appreciating their own country and culture go about singing laurels for others.
Re: STUNNING PICS
by Truth BeTold on May 06, 2012 10:09 PM
You know Usha, I visited Shimla and Manali during the summer of 2005. As long as I kept my eyes above the surface and towards the sky, its breathtakingly beautiful. Down below, there is filth, broken roads, suffocating traffic, polution and trash everywhere. There is nothing to be proud of such destinations where Indians have managed to ruin it perfectly.
Re: STUNNING PICS
by manmohan bala on May 07, 2012 09:33 AM
Usha,I think your criticism is uncalled for.No,doubt India has many wonderful places,but good to know about other places too. Manmohan Bala
What a ridiculous listing is this? These are big cities that the TripAdvisor website it trying to promote to sheperd travellers to - for self serving reasons.
And we can trust our Indian website to blindly publish any drivel posted on foregin websites.
I have been to many of these cities listed here.
How come only large cities of the world figure in here. New York City is NOT a great tourist attraction..unless people want to just gawk at sky scrapers. Ditto for Chicago, though Chicago is very clean for a city that size, but its a city nonetheless. Los Angeles is more spread out, but ultimately a combination of city and suburbia. A welcome change from the slums of India, but yet a city after all.
It is better to rely on National Geographic which comes out with its well researched and reasoned list of best destinations on planet earth.
Believe me there are several wonderful locations in India which are so much more soothing...Beaches of Andaman and Nicobar, Backwaters of Kerala and the houseboat rides there that meander through torgouise backwaters for days...in additions to wonderful wildlife and elephant populations.
Then the hill stations of UP, W Bengal (Darjeeling), HP etc...and so many more.
National Geographic had listed Kerala as one of 10 paradises on planet earth.
This list from TripAdvisor is a joke.
Even Las Vegas is OVERHYPED. Manmade strip of one long road in a desert with strangely shaped buildings and hotels. The city grew around it
Re: TripAdvisor will obviously put cities - travel destinations!
by xtrax on May 04, 2012 11:22 PM
Well about those cities, i am not sure you explored any of them real well, the whole in the wall watering holes, the array of food experience from indian to chinese to everything (which we dont have very much worldly food even though ours is great), the shows, the night club scene, ofcourse the shopping, easy clean way of getting around. Personally i like the idea of no one caring about u in the streets like beggers but yes these cities do have bums and ask for money but never once after i said no they followed me and begging, I love India and i am bringing all my friends over in december but I believe we need more facilities to at least release onceself in emergency
Re: Re: TripAdvisor will obviously put cities - travel destinatio
by RAKESH DIKSHIT on May 05, 2012 03:19 PM
Well said about the large cities. But the taste of the pudding lies in it eating - but at what age - meaning early in life when you are young or later in life when you have tasted other products (experience) and have also contracted diabetes. So a large city will no doubt entice a first timer but ask all those who jet set around the world that whether they prefer going to such of these listed places for tourism but only for shopping. Fine dining is not very much on the Indian tourist agenda. And the last peg is that most of the destinations Americas and Europe and the Australian Subcontinent are liked by due to the fact that they are less populated and spaced apart - which Indians normally donot see in their own country. And therefore any tourism which excludes people is not for in India or any other of its subcontinent neighbours. India attracts those who are able to see through the thick populace the underlying fabric of brotherhood - not the type which is hyped by religions and communities for showing off numbers - but a sense of sharing and openness and happy go lucky attitude towards life. Life in the subcontinent is not of collecting a lot of riches and artifacts for happiness but a time spent with lesser needs and spiritual wants - those which are not materialist but on a different ethereal level. Do come to India - if you are from England you would cross the entire populace of England by the time you reach Taj mahal while you drive from Delhi airport.Its so unnerving
Re: Re: TripAdvisor will obviously put cities - travel destinatio
by RAKESH DIKSHIT on May 05, 2012 03:20 PM
Well said about the large cities. But the taste of the pudding lies in it eating - but at what age - meaning early in life when you are young or later in life when you have tasted other products (experience) and have also contracted diabetes. So a large city will no doubt entice a first timer but ask all those who jet set around the world that whether they prefer going to such of these listed places for tourism but only for shopping. Fine dining is not very much on the Indian tourist agenda. And the last peg is that most of the destinations Americas and Europe and the Australian Subcontinent are liked by due to the fact that they are less populated and spaced apart - which Indians normally donot see in their own country. And therefore any tourism which excludes people is not for in India or any other of its subcontinent neighbours. India attracts those who are able to see through the thick populace the underlying fabric of brotherhood - not the type which is hyped by religions and communities for showing off numbers - but a sense of sharing and openness and happy go lucky attitude towards life. Life in the subcontinent is not of collecting a lot of riches and artifacts for happiness but a time spent with lesser needs and spiritual wants - those which are not materialist but on a different ethereal level. Do come to India - if you are from England you would cross the entire populace of England by the time you reach Taj mahal while you drive from Delhi airport.Its so unnerving
Re: Re: Re: TripAdvisor will obviously put cities - travel destin
by Guy on May 07, 2012 06:21 PM
Well said setu madhavan and Rakesh Dikshit....must say there are some sensible readers and writers on rediff.
