Capital: Washington D.C
Language: English
Currency: US Dollar
Do Indians need visa pre-arrival: Yes (one of the most stringent visa to get but valid for 10 Years).
Places I Visited:
I reside here, and I have visited more than 20 states.
My stay in the USA is like a second home for me. I did my higher education there, and most of my trips in the USA are either official or just meeting my college friends or a day trip even though I have visited more than 20 states, they weren’t so exciting but I need to mention 3 of my trips which were indeed part of my travel experience.
New Orleans- I took a flight from Philadelphia to New Orleans as there was a jazz festival going on that particular time. I got to New Orleans, I took a public bus and got down 5 blocks away from the hostel, I got to the hostel, checked in the afternoon, but everything was pretty dull. After few hours, I started meeting a lot of people in the hostel. There was a jazz band show in the hostel and after jazz band show we walked around the jazz festival for few hours and went to a fancy restaurant for a dinner.
The next day, I met Welsh, a girl from Florida and a girl from the west coast, we went for a cemetery sightseeing and to a famous park in the city. We walked around the French colony and then came back to hostel. We started talking to everyone in the hostel, and we altogether planned and went to Bourbon Street. We were like 30 people.
We woke up late the next day, and we could not do anything in the daytime, so we revisited Bourbon Street later that evening.
The next day, we went for street walking in the French quarter and the neighborhood around it with my Brazilian and Chilean friends. While on this trip, I made good friends from Brazil, Chile, 3 guys from North Carolina, Welsh, 3 French guys, 2 Japanese guys, 2 girls from the UK, New Zealander and a girl from Florida.
After relaxing for 2 days in the hostel, I left to Texas to meet my friends.
With my friends in New Orleans
Miami- This was one of the crazy week trips in the USA. My flight was from Atlantic city early morning which was like 50 miles away from my home, I left around 3 and got lost somewhere along the way, I was getting late for my flight already. I over speeded my car on the highway and was pulled over by the cops. I was given a ticket, and that wasted like 20 minutes of my time, but luckily enough, I got on my flight at the very last moment.
On getting to Fort Lauderdale, I took a bus to south beach where my hostel was located; I checked into hostel walked around the neighborhood then went to a nightclub organized by the hostel later that evening. I didn’t have a good time there as I didn’t meet anyone, so I came back early to the hostel, but as I was entering the hostel, i met a polish at the gate. We started talking, and after a while, I went to sleep.
The next morning, my polish friend met me again in the lobby, and we went out for breakfast. While having our breakfast, we booked a hop on hop off tour, and we went for a hop on and hop off tour till evening.
After a few minutes, we got to the hostel; we were served dinner. Here the magic happened, I met Arubian, German, Italian, Australian, and Turkish along with this polish and after few conversations we went out for a party. It was a crazy night; we all became good friends in few hours. We even had the liberty to take money from one another's wallets to buy food.
The next day, we went out to a beach, but my polish friend had already left Miami and later in the evening we went to partying.
After a day relaxing in the hostel, I took my flight and flew back home.
With my friends in Miami
Las Vegas- after my business trip to San Francisco, I took a bus to Las Vegas. I met few people in the hostel and went to pool party.
The next day I met few English and Americans we walked down the strip for the whole day and went to the bar that evening.
Next day, we did the same thing, we walked down the strip and visited most of the casinos, and in the evening we went to old Vegas. The next day, I and a Brazilian from the hostel went to the famous gold silver pawn shop. The following day, I took a flight back home.