Je projette de partir en Inde du 6 au 22 avril (Paris-Bombay). Mon copain y sera pour le boulot et me rejoindra le 12 vers Goa ou quelque part dans le Kerala...
Plusieurs questions :
- peut-on improviser son transport entre Bombay et le Kerala en passant par Goa et en étant une femme seule ou vaut-il mieux tout réserver d'avance ?
- est-il préférable de prendre un chauffeur dès l'aéroport ?
- connaissez-vous des endroits pour faire s'essayer au yoga pendant une petite semaine ou moins dans le Sud de l'Inde ?
Merci pour vos réponses. En attendant, je vais lire quelques récits !
est-il préférable de prendre un chauffeur dès l'aéroport ?
A mon avis, non.
Tu vas pas partir à Goa en voiture (593 km) à peine sortie de l'avion ?
Donc, pour te rendre à Mumbai :
- A l'aéroport, il y a des taxis pré-payés
- Certains hôtels envoient un chauffeur pour ramener leurs clients
- Si tu restes visiter Mumbai quelques jours, comme dans toutes les grandes villes il y a des bus, des trains, des taxis, des tuk tuk... et les jambes.
Ensuite, tu pars à Goa (mieux vaut réserver) :
- en train (Jan Shatabdi express Mumbai-Madgaon, 9 heures de trajet, à 5h10 le matin - je ne crois pas qu'il y en a un autre ; ou en train de nuit, plus long)
- en avion (1 h de vol !)
- en bus (12 h au mieux)
- en voiture privée (c'est plus long que le train et que l'avion et la conduite en Inde... fait partie du fameux "choc" que certains ressentent à l'arrivée dans le pays, donc autant "s'économiser" au début surtout sur une longue distance !) : si c'est ton choix, réserve-là seulement le jour de ton départ pour Goa.
Il y a Bien un train de nuit qui part de Mumbay VErs 23 h ET Arrive dans la matinée a Goa (Plusieurs gares desservies...Ca dépend ou tu Vas , Descendre a Thivim pour le nord de Goa, SInon c est Madgaon/Margao au centre de l état d ou on peut rejoindre la cote en Bus , ; Rickshaw ou TAxi)
je ne sais pas si le train fonctionne tout les soirs mais je l ai pris plusieurs fois des Dimanche Soirs ;)
Si j'etais toi: indianrailways.com, tu peux te reserver un billet de train des maintenant.Y a des tas de trains qui passent par Goa pour aller dans le Sud mais reserver a l'avance c'est mieux, ca t'evitera de zoner a Mumbai ou de te retrouver sur une liste d'attente .En partance de CST(Mumbai Central) ou bien Lokmaniatillak(east Bombay), le site te dira tout.
Taxi, ben le mieux c ca:en sortant de l'aeroport tu prend un taxi direct pour Colaba, petit quartier tranquille assez touristique, de la t'es a deux pas de la CST (si tu pars de CST pour Goa tu devrai en avoir pour 10 a 13 heures de trajet).Le train c'est le mieux.Et puis te reserver deux billets c le mieux, un pour Goa et le suivant pour le Kerala , en meme temps , parce qu'il faut savoir que les trains en Inde connaissent une crise depuis 5 ans a peu pres, de surpopulation de voyageurs dans toutes les classes .Il est possible aussi que tu te retrouve dans un train vide(ca arrive parfois c'est plutot cool, surtout pendant la mousson)mais je n'y compterai pas trop a ta place.Donc book tout a l'avance, homme ou femme peu importe.
En meme temps si t'as du fric a perdre, prends toi un taxi aeroport direct jusqu'a Goa, si tu t'en fout de voir Bombay.
Le mieux pour ton trajet en train c'est que tu te trouve un "pigeon accompagnateur" ou une ou deux compagnes de route.Les touristes nordiques ou allemands , souvent baraques, blonds et manipulables font de bons escortes pigeons-accompagnateurs de route pour escorter les jolies jeunes femmes qui voyagent seules en train en Inde, et ils sont souvent tres fiers de jouer les garde-du-corps.Non pas que tu en ai necessairement besoin mais pour te repondre avec lucidite et franchise, il arrive que des voyageuses , seules dans le train en Inde soit amenees a etre temoins de choses etranges, insolites, du type:un homme indien qui vient te regarder et puis(s'il n'y a pas trop de monde autour, ce qui peux arriver sur ces longs trajets..)commence tranquillement a se masturber devant toi, parfois meme sur toi!!!
Sans vouloir de faire paniquer, je prefere te dire ce que lonely planet pense tout bas si tu vois ce que je veux dire:les cas d'attouchements et agressions sexuelles ou harcelement en tout genre en Inde vis a vis des femmes "western", en particulier voyageant seules, sont , helas, frequents.Il convient donc a toute femmes sensee, qui voudrai bien preserver l'integrite de ses petites fesses blanches, de bien les mettre a l'abris en Inde.Eh oui car les Indiens sont des gros pervers, la faute a la culture indienne.....
Donc voyager en train seule, je te le recommande pas bien que se soit tout a fait faisable, quoi qu'il en soit couvre bien tes parties et tu sera respectee(genous, epaules, tete enfin tout quoi!)
1/L'option du pigeon accompagnateur est securisante.
2/Te trouver un compartiment avec des femmes indiennes ou une famille est tout aussi securisant.
3/Voyager en train a plusieurs femmes occidentales(sans le pigeon) est relativement securisant.
4/Voyager seule , couverte ou pas, dans une voiture de train a moitie vide et qui se vide petit a petit au fus et a mesure du trajet, jusqu'a se retrouver seule dans l'obscurite d'un long tunnel, pour une duree indeterminee, peut etre une aventure excitante , ca depend de quel point de vue on se place bien sur, question de bol je dirai....
Trouves-toi un bon pigeon(non-indien ca va de soi) qui va a Goa et va avec lui!
Le Kerala c'est magnifique, mon coin prefere en Inde, un peu plus cher qu'ailleurs, mais splendide!!
Pour le yoga: ne cherche pas bien loin, va a : www.sivananda.org/ndam/, ca plait ou pas en tout cas les environs sont paradisiaques!! Et le sejour(d'au moins 3 jours)reste une des retraites les plus abordables de l'Inde(8 euros par jour tt compri:hathayoga, bouffe veg du kerala, logement), le seul hic c'est qu'il y a un programme assez strict(chants, horaires, etc..)mais a s'y faire a cette discipline on en decouvre vite les bienfaits.La qualite des cours de yoga s'y est degradee depuis des annees, mais avec de la chance tu aura un ou une bonne prof.
Bon ben j'espere avoir eclaire ta lanterne,
Bon voyage,
oulala j'en connais une qu'a eu de la chance de tomber sur ca!
Eh oui car les Indiens sont des gros pervers, la faute a la culture indienne..
Incroyable de ne pas avoir honte de dire des choses pareilles ! J'avoue que ça me laisse pantoise. On dirait un discours du 19ème siècle : tel peuple est comme ceci et tel peuple est comme cela (pour dire les choses avec le même ton). En psycho-sociologie, ça s'appelle stigmatiser et ça peut mener à des événements terribles.
Jamais entendu parler des "frotteurs" dans le métro parisien (le terme utilisé par la police me semble assez explicite pour se passer des détails), des viols, des abus sexuels sur enfants en famille ou dans les milieux éducatifs et religieux, des harcèlements sexuels au travail, des exhibitionnistes à la sortie des écoles et autres, chez nous, en Europe ???
Alors, les pervers sont-ils exclusivement en Inde ?
On doit prendre des précautions en tant que femme, comme partout - a fortiori au coeur d'une culture inconnue, mais ce n'est pas parce qu'il y a, en effet, des cas de harcèlements sexuels ou attouchements ou autres qu'il faut stigmatiser tout un un peuple de façon aussi négative et méprisante avec en plus une insertion catégorique mais bien pauvre ("la faute à la culture indienne").
Et bien tu vois, ce que tu décris m'est arrivé à Paris dans les transports en commun (bus, métro), à l'hôtel à Lisbonne, etc... Alors, les Européens, tous des gros pervers ?
Oui, il y a des wagons pour femmes en Inde... Parce que des femmes mais sûrement des hommes aussi ont jugé préférable de nous octroyer un endroit sécurisé pour voyager.
quoi qu'il en soit couvre bien tes parties et tu sera respectee (genous, epaules, tete enfin tout quoi!)
Quelle description... la tête, et puis quoi encore ? On parle de l'Inde, je crois que tu t'es trompé de pays. Dans tous les cas, ne pas se promener en short et décolleté plongeant est normal il me semble, en regard de la façon dont les femmes indiennes s'habillent. Un peu de respect ne nuit pas...
Ceci dit, au regard de ta façon de parler des gens "Le mieux pour ton trajet en train c'est que tu te trouve un "pigeon accompagnateur", on ne peut pas s'attendre à beaucoup mieux pour le reste.
Halucinante réponse de fabrizio truc ...Merci Chandini de tempérer ces propos ... que je trouve franchement limite!!!
Si un Indien est un peu trop insistant( Ce qui peut arriver ) affiche le , voire envoie le ballader c est la meilleure chose a faire, il sera tout confus.... mais pas de parano non plus...Cool, on est en Inde.
Pas "limites" Gregoh... ces propos ont largement dépassé la limite !
Oui, des dérapages (plus qu'"insistant") arrivent parfois en Inde aussi ... même si on est habillé très correctement (ni décolleté, ni shorts, ni jambes visibles, ni débardeur) !!
A nous de le savoir et de nous défendre sans céder à la tentation de la généralisation aussi stupide qu'erronée et méprisante.
bonsoir !
et bien...merci d'avoir pris le temps de répondre.
Je prendrais ce qu'il y a à prendre dans ta réponse.
Ce que je retiens, c'est que je vais partir avec quelques vêtements relativement couvrants pour les premiers jours et acheter le reste en Inde pour être habillée à la locale. Tu n'es pas le premier à faire un tel retour, même si je trouve personnellement tes mots extrêmement ...forts. Je me ferai ma propre idée je pense et je me documenterai un peu avant de partir.
Cdt,
PS : pour info, je ne suis pas une petite européenne avec les fesses assorties mais une africaine quelconque alors peut-être que je passerai inaperçu
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Intense, precious moments with my friends
We loved the mountains, visits to artisans, and the parties too ;-)
We used local guides to show us specific spots (like Isalo National Park, where we were able to bivouac)
Hi there,
My friend and I are traveling together between October and November 2025—no exact dates yet.
We’d love to step away from the typical travel agency packages and are hoping to rent a car locally and stay with locals, living with them rather than in a vacation rental.
Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks in advance for your advice and tips!
Warm regards to all