Located in the latitudinal direction in the Northern Hemisphere and longitudinally in the Eastern Hemisphere, having a time difference of two hours between eastern and western extremes with the local time five and a half hours ahead of GMT, India is a land of diverse cultural, religious and physical variations with snow-capped mountains, lush green meadows, breath-taking coastal landscapes and unique desserts. There are a lot of beautiful places to visit in India and you have a lot of Indian dishes to taste.

India has a unique culture and is one of the oldest and greatest civilizations of the world. It stretches from the snow-capped Himalayas in the north to Sun drenched coastal villages of the south and the humid tropical forests on the south-west coast from the fertile Brahmaputra valley in its east to the Thar Desert in the west.

Millions of people visit India each year from all over the world. They often take a lot of stuff with them and often face issues of extra luggage. In order to prevent such issues, you will need to book an air cargo to India service in advance which will carry your luggage to India before you travel there. This has helped several travellers, and we’re sure it will help you too.

India shares its border with Afghanistan and Pakistan to the north-west, China, Bhutan and Nepal to the north, Myanmar to the Far East and Bangladesh to the east. Sri Lanka is separated from India by a narrow channel of sea formed by the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar. On the whole, the country can be divided into six zones and 29 states, and seven union territories.

Indian society with a hierarchy of endogamous, birth-ascribed groups evolved from distinct social groups.  The communities residing are peculiar to their speciality with respect to sub-cultural features like their dress, personal names, the way they speak a local dialect, the deities they worship, their liking and disliking, the location of their housing, and especially their occupation. 

Indian cuisine is famous for its inbuilt taste and variety. Having the amalgam of soil, type, climate, culture, ethnic groups, and occupations, these cousins have their major ingredients of spices, herbs, vegetables, and fruits. It is worthwhile to mention here that these cuisines are influenced mainly by existing religions of Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism adorned by cultural and traditional recipes and dressings.

Parameters in selection of a food vary from person to person. But, in general, we can say that it should be luscious, mouth-watering, delectable, toothsome, appetizing, tempting, yummy, flavoursome, flavourful, informal, scrummy and finger-licking, 

It is pertinent to mention the staple foods of Indian Cuisine like millet, rice, and whole-wheat flour, and lentils such as red lentils, pigeon peas, black gram, mung beans, and green beans which are obviously used in combination with other foods in vogue.

Certainly if you are travelling to India, you will be cherishing a wish direly to have a bite of tasty scrumptious and superb foods of India, though there is a long list of foods swarming in the markets of India, yet to encompass a cursory view of most commonly liked dishes by the tourists visiting India can be overviewed as per seriatim.

Tandoori chicken

The dish is popular in Northern India wherein roasted chicken prepared by yogurt and special prevailing spices in a cylindrical clay oven wherein tandoori masala of red chilli powder, Cayenne pepper, Kashmiri chilies, etc. are used to make the tandoori chicken delicious and appetizing.

Vindaloo

Desirous of bits of fire in your mouth, then you must go ahead to taste this dish. Popularly known worldwide, this hot dish is a staple of curry house menus. Meats of lamb or chicken, could be part of vindaloo but beef vindaloo is an improvised mostly liked innovation. Being a blend of chillies with cumin, coriander and other reliable spices, vindaloo paste constitutes tomatoes and onions to ignite the taste of customers.

Matar Paneer

If you are vegetarian and opt to have some dish comprised of vegetables as main ingredients, do not lose heart.  A very delicious dish of Matar Paneer is awaited for you. Matar Paneer has peas, cheese, special Indian spices and is most often served with rice, poori, rote, naan, paratha depending upon your choice and selectivity. You will find more taste if you dip your morsel into tomato gravy prepared for it.

Malai Kofta

Another creamy dish you would find in India in prominence that is commonly known as Malai Kofta putting aside vegetables. This heavenly nice dish is prepared from the minced meat with milk cream gravy in mixture of a lot of hot spices with a taste of its own which you have never tasted before.

Butter chicken

As perceived from its very name, traditionally cooked in a tandoor or grilled, roasted or pan-fried in less authentic preparations. The gravy you take with this dish is primarily made with tomato, garlic, and cardamom into a bright red pulp.  After having done it, waited so that it could be cooled down to making it palatable easily. Khoa and various spices, cinnamon, coriander, pepper, fenugreek asafoetida, cumin, cloves, and fresh cream are added into it.

Travelling Tips 

It would be a nice and memorable experience of your visit to India if you have an opportunity to taste such innovative traditionally well prepared aforementioned dishes in particular in the vicinity and history old shadows of cultural and religious landscape. To deter diseases away from you, it is advisable that you must be vigilant about the food you are going to eat and from where. So, rest assured about all the precautionary measures for your safety measures.  In this context for your secure visit, some suggestions are given as per seriatim:

• Area Maps

The first and foremost thing you should choose before departing is the selection of concerned area maps of the type you are interested in.

• Hygienic Measures

Ascertain the food point you’ve chosen for having the aforementioned unique dishes follow maintained with all permissible health codes and general hygienic conditions. It is a common observation that visitors forget to have such measures to avert any undue condition which may come across in eating unhygienic and polluted food.

• Beware of Pickpockets

Beware of pickpockets who can deprive you of all your belongings as well as your plans.  Make sure that you have made your precious things safe and paid more attention while travelling and going to congested places.

• Mineral water use

As it is universally proven by the nutritionists and World Health Organization that most of the diseases are spread mostly by drinking impure water, so you must have Mineral water and it should be used to protect you from gastric problems.

• Weather Forecasting

Make sure the weather is conducive for your trip.  So you must have updated meteorological department’s reports on the area where you are going to proceed.  It will make your journey comfortable in the sense that each and every detail will be available comprehensively with you on temperature, rainfall, seismic and other related forecasting.

• Keep Calm

Always be calm and never indulge yourself in undue discussions.  It often happens that while in public places, something aches you and you lose your temper and outburst, and put aside all the calmness desired. This could be very injurious, complicated and definitely unease your plan.

• Wearing Local Dress

Adhere to this strictly wherever you go and try to put on local dress used in India so that you can avoid unwanted attention.

•  Currency Matters

You should be well versed with the currency of India so that you can shop comprehensively.  This will also be needed while bargaining with shopkeepers.

• Emergency Medicines

Keep emergency hand-sanitizer with you in case you feel unwell to come across some undue emergency.

So, we hope that you have a comfortable and secure tour of India so that you come back with memorable assets of your perceptions of having a successful trip.