ghoshp Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Hello everyone! This is Padmaparna Ghosh. I am an assistant editor with The Times of India in New Delhi. I am writing a story on geocaching in India and was wondering if I can interview some enthusiasts in India for the story? I know it is not so big in India but would love to talk to some who have done this or are doing this or setting up caches anywhere in India. My email is ghoshp@gmail.com. Would love to hear from some of you and if you have the time for a quick chat, I can call at a time convenient for you. Best, Padma Quote Link to comment
+GeoTrekker26 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Hello everyone! This is Padmaparna Ghosh. I am an assistant editor with The Times of India in New Delhi. I am writing a story on geocaching in India and was wondering if I can interview some enthusiasts in India for the story? I know it is not so big in India but would love to talk to some who have done this or are doing this or setting up caches anywhere in India. My email is ghoshp@gmail.com. Would love to hear from some of you and if you have the time for a quick chat, I can call at a time convenient for you. Best, Padma That is a bit of an understatement; according to project-gc.com there are only 182 caches in the entire country. Not only will you have difficulty finding a cacher, the article is unlikely to find many interested readers. Good luck with your quest! Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 Hello everyone! This is Padmaparna Ghosh. I am an assistant editor with The Times of India in New Delhi. I am writing a story on geocaching in India and was wondering if I can interview some enthusiasts in India for the story? I know it is not so big in India but would love to talk to some who have done this or are doing this or setting up caches anywhere in India. My email is ghoshp@gmail.com. Would love to hear from some of you and if you have the time for a quick chat, I can call at a time convenient for you. Best, Padma That is a bit of an understatement; according to project-gc.com there are only 182 caches in the entire country. Not only will you have difficulty finding a cacher, the article is unlikely to find many interested readers. Good luck with your quest! All the more reason to write the story. There are many places in the world with large populations that have very few caches. Generating interest in the game helps grow the sport in places where there is lots of room for growth and gives those that get the opportunity to travel to those places a chance to find some caches in places that might not be in the tourist book. Quote Link to comment
BOBBLES WORLD TOUR Posted May 23, 2014 Share Posted May 23, 2014 I do agree with NYPC above. Caches do attract visitors and as such bring tourist revenue in places that would welcome such. A caching friend of mine has cached in many places but not India. I know he has been to Nepal and even had a DNF some 5000 metres up. Good Luck with your quest though. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I do agree with NYPC above. Caches do attract visitors and as such bring tourist revenue in places that would welcome such. A caching friend of mine has cached in many places but not India. I know he has been to Nepal and even had a DNF some 5000 metres up. Good Luck with your quest though. I have found caches in quite a few countries (20 so far) included 4 that have fewer caches than India. The first time I went to Ethiopia there were only 4 geocaches in the entire country and one of them was in the city that I was visiting (Addis Ababa). Due to a delay in my arrival I was never able to get away from the meetings I had there to try and find that one cache (even though I was about 1000' from it a couple of times.) Fortunately, I was back in Addis last year and there was another cache that I was able to get. There are over 3 million people in Addis and many interested places where a cache could be hidden but it just has't really caught on. Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is similar. There's only one cache the city of 1.3 million people. Quote Link to comment
cnilec Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Padma, I'm an enthusiast, based in Mumbai and i can help if you are still looking to do this. Quote Link to comment
+Delbadore Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I hope you are still looking for someone to interview as I recently stumbled on your post. I am an active geocacher from South Africa and I've visited India regularly over the past 3 years. So far I've found 40 caches in India and hope to up that to 50 soon ! I will contact you via email. Quote Link to comment
HartSinghs Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Hi, Nice to hear of things happening in India. We are fairly new to Geocaching but were able to find quite a few during our holidays in Switzerland. Living in Kochi, Kerala, there's not much down here...so we hid one! Kochi now has one Geocache! Yeah Look forward to seeing who's the first one to find it Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Hi, Nice to hear of things happening in India. We are fairly new to Geocaching but were able to find quite a few during our holidays in Switzerland. Living in Kochi, Kerala, there's not much down here...so we hid one! Kochi now has one Geocache! Yeah Look forward to seeing who's the first one to find it Good job. I know very little about that part of the world but have been working on a project that could take me to India in the next year or so. One of my colleagues frequently travels to India and is leaving next week for a month long trip. Are you considering placing more? If a geocacher was looking at a map they might consider a visit to Kochi if there were a 10 or so caches in the city but might not make the trip just for one. Quote Link to comment
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