Customer Reviews

Globe Trekker: South India [VHS]

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As a middle school social studies teacher, I bought this program because I have been impressed with the quality of previous Globe Trekker films. I was planning on showing this to my class as a way of relating what daily life is like in India. Instead, I was greeted in all 4 geographic regions with a myriad of freak shows. It seems as if the producers were not interested in exploring the real everyday India but instead focused only on the most bizarre. If I didn't know better I would assume that India was a land where rat worship is common, narcotics can be found everywhere, and the men are just waiting to grope the unsuspecting western tourist. If you are into this, then the video is great but if you want a look at reality then this video is not worth the price paid in S&H.

I actually did not open this video because on the back it shows the places visited and it doesn't include any parts of the South Indian states of Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh. Since I will only be visiting places in Karnataka, it was not useful to me at this time.
This video does cover the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.