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<\/a>Quechua for the win! 22 l Forclaz and a 5 l Arpaez strapped to it. The entire assembly weighs less than 7 kgs.<\/p><\/div>\n
A test of patience<\/h2>\n
The wait time is a true test of patience. Firstly, a person needs a lot of patience to travel from Mahadevpura (or HSR for Nandy – my travel partner) to the Bangalore airport on a weekday. That too, during the evening when everyone is commuting from their office to their home. I left about 3 hours early. I barely had 45 mins to check-in when I reached the airport.<\/p>\n
The 3 lone counters of Tigerair is operated by Air India staff. They were helpful enough with the process and the immigration-customs-security checks were relatively fast.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The strangest part was the serpentine manoeuvre through the empty nylon strapped guide lines.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The relatively vibrant international lounge. Most people around me have already fallen asleep on the chairs and sofas as I upload this entry.<\/p><\/div>\n
A colleague of mine* suggested that I make a note of all the stuff in the duty free shops en route to my destination. That way I can pick things up on my way back and I do not have to worry about lugging around too much weight.<\/p>\n
*Rueben Dinakar<\/strong> wants his name to pop up on a search result. I hope this entry will help him in his quest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minimalist packing Tigerair allows a carry-on allowance of max 2 pieces with a combined weight not exceeding 10 kg. Or so the tag says. I made sure that I pack the lightest stuff, eg. tracksuits that weigh no more than 100-200 g each. A test of patience The wait time is a true test of … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[130,129],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sauvik","4":"post-774","6":"format-standard","7":"category-travel","8":"post_tag-bangalore-airport","9":"post_tag-vietnam-trip-15"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sauvikbiswas.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}