Hobo tourism/Creative trip to India



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.

Materials in Wikisource project

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