J'envisage de partir début 2010 faire une année sabbatique en Inde et au Népal, avant de me lancer réellement dans la vie "active". Bref, étant donné que c'est mon premier gros voyage quasi seul, je me pose plusieurs questions. Je pars avec un ami et compte prendre l'avion jusqu'à Trivandrum au sud de l'Inde, puis remonter toute l'Inde jusqu'au Népal. Pour l'instant je suis un peu paumé, j'ai fait différentes recherches mais j'ai du mal à trouver certaines réponses...
De un, l'éternel question du visa. Etant donné que je n'ai pas de limites de temps, comment cela se passe-t'il pour mon visa. Vais-je avoir des soucis si je n'ai pas de billet d'avion retour ? Si oui, comment faire, puisque je ne sais pas d'où je vais partir ? Je sais que cette question a déjà été posé plus d'une fois, mais à chaque fois aucune réponse n'est sûr et surtout la personne en question ne fais jamais part de ce qui s'est passé après le voyage, donc...!?
De deux, suis-je utopiste de penser que je vais réussir à remonter toute l'Inde uniquement à pied, en bus ou en train, où je risque vraiment d'avoir des soucis ? Avec 5€ par jour, si je mange et dors cheap, je (sur)vis ou je meurs de faim et d'insalubrité !?
Voilà en gros pour mes deux questions certes naïves mais j'espère que vous pourrez m'aider, d'avance merci. Toutes les infos et les conseils quels qu'ils soient et qui pourraient m'aider sont les bienvenue ! Merci
Je suis parti 5 mois dont 3 semaines de trains/bus (si je devais mettre bout à bout toutes les journées/nuits passées en transport).
VISA :
très simple, tu vas sur www.vfs-in-fr.com. tu imprimes ce qu'il y a imprimer. 2 photos. tu en as pour 70 euros. (plus si tu passes par la poste).
BUDGET :
Mon budget perso tournait à 10 euros/jour TOUT COMPRIS (bouffe, hotel, transport, cadeaux pour la famille, dons, colis en France, arnaques en tout genre, etc.) Mais tu peux faire moins. ça dépend des endroits... 500 RS/J soit <10 euros c'est pas mal.
Ensuite TOUJOURS négocier. Ne jamais accepter le premier prix. un chiffre en tête : tu dois pouvoir dormir pour entre 150 et 200 RS/nuit quelque soit l'endroit où tu vas (nord/sud). Si tu restes 10 jours, négocie une baisse.
Evidemment à Delhi/Mumbai/Chennai... ça monte à 300/500 RS/nuit; mais il y a peu de chance pour que tu ne passes plus que 2/3 nuits dans ces grandes villes ennuyeuses.
Si tu es un peu serré... ne passe par les agences de voyages (tu évites la comm de 50 RS) pour réserver ton train (il y a tous les 5 mètres dans les endroits touristiques) mais va à la gare, remplis le petit bon de réservation, fait la queue etc. (La bas, il y a un quota pour touriste : même si le train est bondé, il peut y avoir 2/3 places restantes pour les touristes).
Le Nord est moins cher (car plus pauvre) que le Sud.
AVION :
Je n'avais pas de billet retour ni quand j'ai obtenu mon visa de 6 mois ni une fois sur place. Je ne l'ai acheté (par internet) que 2 semaines avant l'expiration de mon visa. donc pas de souci pour cette histoire de billet retour.
INTERNET : 10 RS/par heure le meilleur tarif que j'ai pu trouvé (de toute l'inde) à Varanasi.
Rickshaw "touctouc" : éviter ces uluberlus...! Ce sont les indiens les moins respectueux que tu puissent trouver : ils t'attendent depuis des heures sur les quais de gare, te courrent après "toi étranger de l'ouest", se jettent sur toi en meute à la sortie des gares. ce sont les plus menteurs & arnaqueurs de tous. Donc ignore les, déplace toi à pied, prend les bus en commun, sinon négocie la course avant le départ.
LE PLUS IMPORTANT :
ton voyage (le tiens) est unique! donc inutile de t'en dire plus! tu découvriras par toi même!
Le sujet est abordé chaque année et tu trouveras sur le site des personnes qui ont vécu 1 an en Inde (fonction rechercher !)
Le visa est a entrée multiple, tu peux le prendre pour 6 mois, 1 an ou 5 ans !
Met à jour tes vaccins et fait la typhoïde (Typhim) et les hépatites A & B.
Pour le paludisme, c'est surtout la prévention qui compte (anti-moustiques, manches longues le soir). Sur un voyage au long cours, achète du Lariam en curatif et prend une moustiquaire légère. Pour l'eau, je prend l'eau 'potable' disponible dans les gares et je la purifie avec de l'hydroclonazone (avec 5 boîtes de 200 comprimés tu tiens 1 an). Prépare bien ta trousse à pharmacie !
Les indispensables : le guide Lonely Planet India (1200 pages en anglais - version 2007) et le Train at a Glance (30 Roupies dans les gares -> en attendant consulte les sites Irctc.co.in et indianrailways.gov.in).
En partant début 2010, tu auras que 4-5 mois sympa au niveau climat puis 4 mois pénibles (juin-septembre). L'Inde peut être un pays 'usant' à la longue surtout la partie Nord (Delhi-Agra-Vanarasi) à cause du harcélèment. Pour t'exercer : va au temple de Maduraï et compte le nombre de minutes où tu supportes les faux guides... Interdit de se fâcher sinon on perd la face -> apprend à balancer ta tête de gauche à droite comme tout bon indien.
Tu peux monter de Trivandrum à Leh sur 6 mois par la côte ouest : Tamil Nadu (Pondichery-Mamallapuram), Kerala (Cochin-Ooty), Karnataka (Hampi-Gokarna), Goa, Maharashtra (Ellora-Ajanta), Madhya Pradesh (Omkareshwar-Mandu-Orccha-Kajuraho), Uttar Pradesh (Vanarasi), Népal (Pokhara-Kathmandou), Haryana (Rishikesh), Uttaranchal (Shimla), Himachal Pradesh (Manali), Ladakh (Leh-Lamayuru).
On passe juillet-août dans les montagnes puis on redescend par le Penjab (Dharamsala-Amritsar), le Rajasthan (Jaisalmer-Udaipur), le Gujerat (Amedhabad) avant de remonter sur le Népal (Chitwan) via Agra-Lucknow. Ensuite on peut partir sur le Bengale (Darjeeling-Calcutta), l'Orissa (Puri-Bhubaneshwar) et l'Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad).
En prenant ton temps, en voyagant de nuit avec le train et en évitant les taxis/rickshaws, tu tourneras à 7-8€/jour (thali à 20-50 Roupies, nuit < 200 Roupies).
Pour recharger ses batteries, tu peux t'arrêter longuement à Hampi, Gokarna, Goa, Pushkar, Manali, Leh comme le font tous les possesseurs de Enfield un peu chevelus (ils quittent Goa en mai et arrivent à Leh fin juin)...
Exemple de voyage à 10€/jour hors trekking au Népal
http://voyageforum.com/v.f?post=2385856#2385856
Bonne préparation.
NB: si tu ne tiens pas le coup, va en asie du sud-est ! On s'en sort bien avec 10€ par jour, le climat est moins pénible (mousson inversée en Indonésie) et les gens plus ouverts...
comment ca va?
Pour ta 1er question je ne pense pas que tu auras du soucis avec les visas
je suis alle en inde l annee derniere depuis singapore et je suis arrive a chenai, je n ai pas eu de probleme avec les visas, de plus je suis repartis de katmandou au nepal...
remonte l inde ce n est pas un probleme...
5 euros par jours c est un peu rac comme budget, mais l inde n est vraiment pas cher. environ 250 euros par mois.
pour les trains, j espere que tu as des notions en anglais, parfois ilo faut les reserver 3 jours a l avance pour etre sur d avoir une place...les trajet sont tres long mais pas cher 1 euro ou moins en train.
l inde est un pays tres tres tres pauvres, et tu risk aussi d etre tres solicite tt les jours...les gens du sud sont plus accueillant qu au nord pour ma part mais tu en fera ta propre experience..
si tu a le tps va au nepal, c est magnifique..
au sud de l inde tu as aussi auroville la cite interdite renseigne toi..
Salut !
Avant tout merci pour les infos, j'ai quelques soucis en ce moment, ce qui retarde mon voyage, du moins les dates de départ. De ce fait première question : il faut s'y prendre combien de temps à l'avance pour le visa ?
@ carepicha : merci pour les infos, si je peux m'en sortir comme tu dis avec 250€ par mois, c'est niquel... Sinon no problemo pour l'anglais, et le but justement de ce voyage est le Népal, bien plus que l'Inde... Sinon petite question (où je pense connaitre la réponse) : j'ai plus ou moins prévu un itinéraire, en gros ce que propose Etienne59 (voir plus haut), mais est-ce nécessaire de partir avec un truc bien ficelé ou un peux tout improviser sur place (ce que je préfère bien entendu, vu que je n'aurais aucune contrainte...) ? merci à toi, peace man
Il ne faut pas partir en inde avec qq chose de bien ficele, de tt facon meme si tu le veux ca sera dur en inde. comme je te le disais rien que pour le train, et je ne veux pas de decourager mais tu va en chier, , lol... surtout et crois moi n hesite pas a passer devant tt le monde car sinon tu va rester 6h dans la gare pour faire un billet, , il te passeront tous devant, , , au debut je disais rien a la fin je faisait comme eux, , lol mais ca fait partis du jeu.
l itineraire qui ta donne est bien, c est a peu pres ce que j ai fait, mais je rajouterai HAMPY a ne pas manquer BHOPAL et biensur VARANASIE...
FAIS ATTENTION AVEC LE PALUDISME ET LA FIEVRE JAUNE.
J ai pris des comprimes qui s appelle doxy, en plus c est rembourser par la secu...c est un medicament qui a la base ils donnent pour l acnee, mais qui fonctionne contre la fievre jaune, mon medecin me la prescrit.
pour ton visa en inde tu peu faire appelle a action visa, je pense qu en 7 jours c est ds la poche.
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