Immunisations for travel

[Natfixit]

There is the government travel clinic in Wanchai. Didn't realise you need jabs for India.

Holi. Fun! Can I come?

I would vaccinate myself for typhoid, hep A and B plus malaria. Also make sure you are up to date with tetanus.

[Natfixit]

Last time I was there, a crowd of rioting youths (otherwise known as an "Election Rally") decided to take exception to myself and my travelling companion and threw stones at us. That was the final straw. Previous "fun" had included being abducted by my taxi driver and refused to take me to the airport until I coughed up a huge sum of money (luckily I had no money but I was furious and I think he and his dodgy companion ended up more scared of me than I was of them); various food-borne ailments; extremely exciting car journeys with more hair-raising close shaves than a Disney ride... and so on and so forth. It didn't help I was always on business so never got to see any tourist sites!

Sounds like fun. My husband always seems to become involved in a traffic accident each visit for business ( he has a driver, but a bus always has to squeeze into the spot infront the size of half a car space. )If he SMS me, that's ok, but if his boss does, then I have reason to be worried.

In any of these countries, I make sure that I'm vaccinTed to the hilt, carry my own medicated soap plus Dettol wipes.

[HK_Katherine]

I have to say, I have been to many places from Myanmar to Philippines to Indonesia to Laos to Cambodia etc etc and nothing, I mean nothing prepares you for India.

Beautiful place, fantastic food, magnificent landscapes and monuments but absolute misery really right next to it.

Going there for business is not the same, I did and that was ok.....but on ur own, in trains or buses etc it's fun but you indeed will come back with huge feelings ...some extremely positive,some extremely negative...it won't for sure leave u indifferent.

And yes scammers are all over (on a scale I had never seen)....but they are relatively easy to spot.


Just to add....it's a must visit place. Absolutely worth it to go. Just be very open minded but also cautious w hygiene and stuffs.

Spot on. Some of my strongest memories are from India, even though it was all business trips. Most places on Business trips I cannot recall a single thing about the place.....