Hobo tourism/Creative trip to India

Minute rest

Letter of introduction to the Indian Consulate

Creative trip to India — a project of the Russian traveler Viktor Pinchuk, where the main purpose was to hold a personal photo exhibition about the country visited upon return.

General information

• Duration: 14 days.
• Period: 14.11. 2006 — 28. 11. 2006
• Idea: Viktor Pinchuk.
• Number of participants: 1 (one).
• Starting point: Delhi.
• Transit through: Moscow.
• Number of countries visited: 1 (one).
• Way to get: plane.
• Ways to move: trains, auto rickshaws, pedestrian routes.
• Nature of the journey: creative trip.
• Purpose: collection of material for the forthcoming photo exhibition and newspaper publications.
• Format: hobo tour (simplified version).

Places visited

• Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Ajmer, Vadodara, Surat, Margao, Mumbai, Bandra.

Мap of the route

Outcomes and results

Author’s articles in periodicals (in Russian):

• «Индия. Страница из путевого дневника» — South Capital: newspaper. — 26.10.2007. — № 43 (824);
• «Боги на любой вкус» — Simfi: newspaper. — 4. 03.2008. — № 8 (59);
• «Кто такой Хануман?» — Crimean Observer: newspaper. — 25.03.2008. — № 12 (242);
• «Индия даром» — Crimean time: newspaper. — 29.03.2007. — № 35 (2421);
• «Бог един… в 200 лицах» — Republic of Crimea: newspaper. — 5. 08. 2010. — № 27 (888).

• Personal photo exhibition «Roads of India» took place in October 2006; venue — House of Artist (Simferopol) .

• In 2020 the brochure "Indian dreams" was published .

The methods used

In the process of moving along the route the following accommodation options were used:

• In low-budget locations designed to accommodate the native poor.

Gallery

• 
  Four Saints (Дели)
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  Street children (Bandra)
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  Hostel (Surat)

Materials in Wikisource project

• Viktor Pinchuk "God is One… in 200 Persons"