Travel Stats

For this trip, I recorded details such as when we arrived in a city, when we arrived at the transit station, when we actually left, and the number of hours we were away from our hotel each day. I did this by carrying around a cute GPS tracker made by VuPoint (only $34). Originally I got it to geo-code all of my pictures, but found it useful in calculating these stats.

Tourist time is defined as time not in transit, at a transit station, or at a hotel. In some cases were the activity had some tourist value (such as the drive down from Agra to Sawai Madhopur, or the camping portion of the camel trek) I included for overall calculations but not city specific totals.

We spent a total of 803 hours away from Tucson of which

• 197 hours was spent traveling (including being delayed 28 hours)
• 33 hours was spent waiting at airports and train stations.
• 264 hours being a tourist. (about 9 hours a day!)
• 19 nights in hotels, 1 night camping, 13 nights in transit.
• 309 hours spent sleeping in hotels, eating, blogging, web browsing, recovering, being sick, etc.
• 47% of the time we spent in cities we were being tourists.

The top 4 cities we spent the most time in being tourists:

1. Darjeeling: 41 hours out of 78.
2. Bangkok: 34 hours out of 81.
3. Chiang Mai: 32 hours out of 79.
4. Varanasi: 24 hours out of 57.

The top 4 cities we spent least amount in being tourists:

1. Sawai Madhopur: 5 hours (Drove down in the morning, safari, train out at night.)
2. Kolkata: 10 hours (10 hours too many)
3. Agra: 11 hours ( I was sick for most of Agra)
4. Hong Kong: 13 hours (flew in in the morning and out at night, spent the rest of the time in the city)