Sometimes it seems that we live in a very boring world .It is all known, researched, understandable and spaced with a grid of air flights .It seems that it is very small and everyone has already visited all its corners with the help of TV and the Internet .You can yawn wander with Google Maps in San Francisco, then make a virtual tour of the Louvre, and in the evening watch a movie about New Zealand .We all know .It remains only to dream that somewhere in the distant cosmos there is something interesting and, washing down the chips with beer, watching the Internet broadcast from the rovers Curiosity .
As usual, the truth is that everything is quite the opposite .Our world is huge and extremely interesting .The problem in his perception is .Most people do not see the world around, but several rooms that change with each other periodically .House-work, work-house .At a certain stage, it becomes unbearable, and we run to the travel agency to go away and see another country .But arriving in a new one, we find ourselves in a hotel room that differs from the first two rooms, only by the size of the refrigerator and the brand of the plasma panel .It's like living in an apartment with a bedroom, a study, a balcony with a chaise longue and glued on the glass with wallpaper .In an apartment, the key to which is long lost .
More precisely, the key is not lost, but inserted into the keyhole, but we do not want to notice it, preferring to rush forever on more important matters .But if you just open the door, buy a ticket to another country, come there yourself, how all your ideas about the world fall into a mess .One has only to look around, as a new, unexplored world opens to you, about which you did not hear anything before, did not look on TV and did not read on the Internet .This world is full of impressions, surprising surprises and moments that forever change your life .When this happens, you realize that the world needs to be discovered inside of itself, not on Google maps .
Alexander, traveler |
Purpose of the trip: |
India, inviting and mysterious |
I decided to open my door and came up with a motor tour across India, which I called "12 colors". In October 2012, I will arrive in New Delhi, buy a local motorcycle there and drive more than 7,000 kilometers to the state of Goa. On the way there will be 12 Indian states and more than 30 cities just for overnight stays. This trip will make it possible to see what kind of India we know from completely different sides, to show the non-tourist side of this country.
Moto-tour will last two months, and all this time I will regularly write about it, upload photos and video materials. Every day, information will be updated on Twitter and on the public page of Vkontakte. Once every 3 days I will post a blog post, and once a week I'll mount the video from the cameras attached to the motorcycle. After completion of the project, the road video will be the basis of the documentary about 12 colors of India.
"The subtleties of tourism" are an information partner of motor-travel. For more information on "12 colors", please visit www.12colours.ru