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India Trip Days 1-3 (Very Pic Heavy, will only be this heavy for this post)

Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:33 am
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:33 am
Hey guys, I am currently in India spending time with my grandparents who live out here. I am in the south in a city called Hyderabad. I have not been in 4 years and a ton has changed. All photos were taken with a Nexus 6P. Anyways, here is my attempt at documenting my trip.

Day 1-
Here is a picture of my grandparent's house. They live in a CCLA equivalent and their house is very nice.
Next are some pictures from their neighborhood.


Here is a picture of a neighbor's wedding

Some odd trashcans
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Here is a picture of a common SUV known as a Scorpio. If you all didn't know, any car that isn't Japanese or Indian will cost double here than in the US. So yes, a BMW 5 series is the equivalent of $100,000-$120,000. Also, diesel here is cheaper than gas, so most of the vehicles are diesel.



Here is a jeep clone

I ended up going to the meat market with my grandpa to get some goat.

Money Shot

Picture of gramps in here


After that we went to a fruit stand to pick up bananas. Here is gramps bargaining for already very cheap fruits


Interesting traffic light

After that we went home and got ready for lunch at my uncle's water park and resort. It is a pretty nice place. I will post more pics later but if you want info, it is called Dream Valley in Hyderabad.
On the way there, there was lots of goats

My uncle's dad (grandpa's brother) who created Dream Valley died a few years ago. This is his memorial stone

Under-cover where the food was served.

I got biriyani, Butter chicken, chili chicken,and gobi manchuria (fried cauliflower).

Here was my dessert, I have no clue how to describe it besides it was very good

For dinner, my grandma cooked the ground goat with chunks of goat into a dish called keema. We ate this along with a plant called gongura (looks a lot like marajuana)


We ate this with rice.
Day 2-
We started the day with my grandma making dosa with keema and pickled ginger

Next my dad's med-school classmate's son picked us up to go take us to some cool restaurants and to hang out. This first place is called N-District and is owned by a famous Telugu (language we speak/language from this area) actor.




Here is a picture of a margorona we drank. It was pretty damn good. Partial picture of my brother here.

Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:34 am to
After a small pizza (sorry, no pics) we headed out to our friend's house. Here is his diesel toyota (I wish they had there in the US)

His indoor pool

Views from the top of his house




Next we went to a place called Flying Spaghetti Monster which is an Italian restaurant.


Odd humor.


I ordered a ground lamb and pesto pasta. It was awesome.

After that, we went to a bakery/pastry shop built into the side of a Christian family's home. I got a chocolate sandwich.








Aftermath

For dinner, we ate a lamb stew cooked for several hours on an open fire. This is called paya. This pics were taken from my mom's Galaxy S5 which is why they look lower quality.

Bread it was served with

Tongue. Yes, I ate it.

Day 3-
Went to my Uncle's house for his dad's death day anniversary.



Fish and a lentel based food that has onions and other stuff in it.


That night we went with our friend again to see Creed in theaters. Here, all of the theaters are attached to malls.


Apple store.

Reclining chairs at movies cost only 250 rupees ($3.70) (finally got my feet in here ).

Finally, we went to a club (didn't think to take pictures). Here is a picture of a Benelli dealership (for those of you who don't know, yes, this is Benelli the gun company but a long time ago they split the bike and gun business into two).

I am here for 15 days so I will post more pics. I plan on going shooting soon so I can show you all pictures of how they do it here and all of the expensive arse guns here. Anyways, hope you all enjoyed it.
This post was edited on 12/18/15 at 4:46 am
Posted by DownSouthDave
Beau, Bro, Baw
Member since Jan 2013
7377 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:42 am to
Awesome post. Honestly, that's way nicer than I had pictured any part of India. Very nice.
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:48 am to
Surprised me too , all of these places are fairly new.
Posted by No Colors
Sandbar
Member since Sep 2010
10412 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 4:52 am to
Most of those goats could have used another year
Posted by JJBTiger2012
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
1891 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:09 am to
Awesome pics man thanks for sharing
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 5:50 am to
Posted by doublecutter
Hear & Their
Member since Oct 2003
6586 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:07 am to
quote:

Honestly, that's way nicer than I had pictured any part of India
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21929 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:22 am to
Great pics Chat.

Never thought India to be Westernized. I love me some Indian food, all the food looks great, even the toungue.

Are your parents from India and you live here in the States?
Posted by OTIS2
NoLA
Member since Jul 2008
50128 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:23 am to
Nice. Food Board would eat this up. Safe travels!
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:26 am to
quote:

Are your parents from India and you live here in the States?

Parents live in BR. My dad has been here since he was 25. My mom has lived here since she was 15. I was born and brought up here.
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20041 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:29 am to
ChatRabbit, would you consider your parents to be well off? By that I mean in the top 10% income level in India? I am trying to gauge how they would economically fit it here in say Baton Rouge. Are they in on of the nicest neighborhoods there?

Also, if one was making about $125,000 a year here what would that equate to there?

Thanks, am just curious. Great pics and nice documentary. I look forward to more...
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:33 am to
My grandparents are easily top 5 percent. No house in their neighborhood is less than $800,000 USD. 125k a year in USD will put you up at a very high level considering how many poor people live here. Conversion is 67rupees per dollar but cost of living here is low. You could have a nice apartment and car here for that much. My parents don't live here, they live in BR. Dad is a doctor here.
This post was edited on 12/18/15 at 6:36 am
Posted by armytiger16
Member since Oct 2010
563 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:43 am to
Cool pics dude and I'm digging that dream valley water park. Just be careful if you go get any haircuts.
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:48 am to
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21929 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:52 am to
So your dad is a DR. in BR and you're visiting your Grand Parents in India? What did you Grand Parents do to become wealthy?
Posted by ChatRabbit77
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
5861 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 6:58 am to
These are my mom's parents. Grandparents owned a gas station near LSU for 15 years. They took that money and moved back to India and invested all their money in property and when India started developing, they sold their land to companies and wealthy people. That is how they made their money in India.
Posted by LSUTiger2u
Atlanta, GA
Member since Jan 2005
1098 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 7:07 am to
Great pics and story!! Thanks for sharing!! I enjoy seeing how other cultures live.
Posted by VetteGuy
Member since Feb 2008
28188 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 7:25 am to
Thank you. Learned a lot about India.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
11451 posts
Posted on 12/18/15 at 7:48 am to
quote:

Grandparents owned a gas station near LSU for 15 years.


Of course they did did joe biden ever drop in?

Really cool pics
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