Call of the ganges

India needs to promote its tourism resources better among Chinese travelers to get them to visit, Yang Feiyue and Satarupa Bhattacharjya report.

Li Si, 25, packed a few boxes of instant noodles on his first trip to India in 2011. The Beijing resident was worried that the local food wouldn't suit him. Many foreign tourists to India appear to fear the "Delhi belly", or traveler's diarrhea, a term that even visiting expatriate Indians tend to use.

But as it turned out, Li's nine-day tour wasn't just easy on the stomach but also on his eyes.