Travel Plans
We are traveling United 721 , leaving Atl 1526 and arriving Newark 1730, and United 48, leaving Newark 2010 on Mon and arriving Mumbai 2140 on Tue. We will be returning 16 Dec.
We chose this time and season because it fit best into our schedule. The guidebooks all say the best time to visit India, except extreme north, is Nov - Mar. The monsoon has ended, and it is cooler. However, weather.com on 7 Nov shows Mumbai afternoon temps of 35-36 degrees (95-97 F). Ditto for Ahmedabad. Diu on the water: only 33 degrees (92 F) but 27 degrees (80 F) in the AM. So much for cool - this is the kind of weather where your clothes are soaked with sweat by 2 PM and the salt from your sweat is in your eyes. The guidebooks should say the best time to visit is Dec - Feb, the same thing they would say about Hell. Or, maybe more accurately, the best time to visit is Jan 10-12 of each year.
Note: in 2009 Carol demurred about going to Shanghai for the eclipse during the months of July and August. Wise choice: on the second day in Shanghai the temperature reached 104 F. In 2012 Carol decided that she had seen enough deserts for quite a while, and let Mike go solo to Iraq.
We are traveling United 721 , leaving Atl 1526 and arriving Newark 1730, and United 48, leaving Newark 2010 on Mon and arriving Mumbai 2140 on Tue. We will be returning 16 Dec.
We chose this time and season because it fit best into our schedule. The guidebooks all say the best time to visit India, except extreme north, is Nov - Mar. The monsoon has ended, and it is cooler. However, weather.com on 7 Nov shows Mumbai afternoon temps of 35-36 degrees (95-97 F). Ditto for Ahmedabad. Diu on the water: only 33 degrees (92 F) but 27 degrees (80 F) in the AM. So much for cool - this is the kind of weather where your clothes are soaked with sweat by 2 PM and the salt from your sweat is in your eyes. The guidebooks should say the best time to visit is Dec - Feb, the same thing they would say about Hell. Or, maybe more accurately, the best time to visit is Jan 10-12 of each year.
Note: in 2009 Carol demurred about going to Shanghai for the eclipse during the months of July and August. Wise choice: on the second day in Shanghai the temperature reached 104 F. In 2012 Carol decided that she had seen enough deserts for quite a while, and let Mike go solo to Iraq.
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