Summer Travel Tips
These Summer travel tips will keep you cool Summer can be pretty taxing if you’re not used to it, very dry heat and about as hot as humans can stand. The best way I could describe it was that I often felt my eyeballs were roasting inside my head. It really was like opening an oven and sticking your head inside. The only thing that felt similar was summer in New Mexico, but I still think India was more extreme. Many people and animals die each summer through heat stress and anyone who can heads for the hills, and this is what I’d suggest, as well as wearing natural fibers like cotton, linen and viscose (which is plant-fiber, even though the name sounds synthetic, it’s not). Monsoon is pretty much like summer, except it pours with rain every afternoon. This means two things: it’s much more humid than summer, and secondly, you can get good deals at some hotels, because it’s the ‘off season’. Don’t forget to ask for air-conditioning and a fan if both are available, they’re not necessarily included. A fan will help the air-conditioned air circulate if the AC isn’t very powerful. And if in the summer the AC gets overpowered, at least you’ll still have a fan. My friend Kara and I got a great deal staying at a beautiful former palace, now hotel in Rajasthan, for about half price, just because it was Monsoon. And it was gorgeous in the negative edge pool overlooking the vast plains, seeing the camels pulling carts of produce. Every afternoon, as I enjoyed a fresh lime soda, I watched for maybe two hours as a huge storm would wander lazily in our direction. Eventually, when the storm reached us, I took refuge in one of the awesome rooms, like the indoor playground, with antique swing sets and open walls, so you could still get the breeze and smell of the rain.
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