(Not India but another couple of friends did one of those hols on a traditional boat on the Nile....and went swimming in it.
When I saw him some time after he'd been on antibiotics for something like a chest infection. He said the chest thing was much better but, for the first time in ~2 months since the holiday, he didn't have gippy guts.
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Another occasion in my backpacking days I spent a few weeks in Egypt,got all the way down to Aswan,never got I'll. India was something else!
