{"id":7154,"date":"2015-11-10T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:05:55","slug":"can-a-trip-ever-be-authentic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/can-a-trip-ever-be-authentic\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Trip Ever Be \u2018Authentic\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"authenticity\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Tour Companies aspire to introduce us to what isn\u2019t ordinary, to what can\u2019t be found back home, to what is in fact as far from the everyday lives of locals as possible. When we settle into our $500-a-night suite in a Taj hotel, surrounded by oil lamps and bangled dancers, the room glittering with tiny mirrors, we couldn\u2019t be further from the \u2018\u2018real India\u2019\u2019 outside, which struggles to get by on $1 a day. Our backpacking kids scorn us for our distance from real life as they settle into a fleapit in Old Delhi, a \u2018\u2018real India\u2019\u2019 compounded of bedbugs and stomach cramps and equally \u2018\u2018authentic\u2019\u2019 travelers from D\u00fcsseldorf and Malmo.<\/p>\n

The \u2018\u2018reality\u2019\u2019 we crave, in short, is itself a fantasy.”<\/p>\n

Source: Can a Trip Ever Be \u2018Authentic\u2019? – The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we settle into our $500-a-night suite surrounded by oil lamps and bangled dancers, we couldn\u2019t be further from the \u2018\u2018real India\u2019\u2019 outside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,131,16,535],"tags":[533,195],"yoast_head":"\nCan a Trip Ever Be \u2018Authentic\u2019?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When we settle into our $500-a-night suite surrounded by oil lamps and bangled dancers, we couldn\u2019t be further from the \u2018\u2018real India\u2019\u2019 outside\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/can-a-trip-ever-be-authentic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" 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