Delhi without the belly India again- can't believe it's 15 years since the last visit Safely in Delhi, chaotic as ever,...adjusting to a new planet ! Internet access is not easy because of terror threats so may be difficult to post many photos....maybe in a couple of days. [View Full Entry]

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Picture it. Close your eyes and imagine. You've been on planes and in airports for over 20 hours, you've just landed at New Delhi International, it's your first time setting foot on such foreign soil. The plane door opens, your breathing quickens - finally, at last, yes! You step out of the plane, look around and ugh, the smell! You can see 800 feet on the brightly lit runway. From the smog. Wow, welcome to India. We have been in Delhi for 7 days now and have lived a lot more than that. There is simply no way to describe to [View Full Entry]

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Hi all We are soon on our way to Mumbai (tmrw morning!!), but I just wanted to share some pics from yesterday afternoon in Dehli. While Will was at a meeting I visited the fantastic Bahas temple! As always when I am out sightseeing on my own it creates a bit of attention and I often feel like a walking tourist attraction myself.. However, it is a nice building and I really like the whole Bahai idea, which is spiritual unity of all humans and religion (no, I myself have NOT turned religious:), just like the including all humans idea) On [View Full Entry]

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To explain the rather contrived title I’ll skip to the end. This morning (1/11/09 - which will be discussed in the next blog) when I arrived into Leh the first thing i noticed was that the sky was blue. Also, the sun was bright. Why would this surprise me, I hear you ask? Well, good question. The answer is that it’s because I’d spent the previous ten days or so in Delhi. Unless there was some weird seasonal effect going on, I can confidently report that Delhi doesn’t have much in the way of sky or sun, as they’re hiding behind [View Full Entry]

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Vor ganz genau zwo Tage hab ich die Haelfte meiner Zeit hier erreicht und zwar wieder in Delhi. Nachdem ich drei Tage in Rishikesh verweilte gings wieder nach Delhi um weiter in den Sueden zu fahren oder um in den Osten zu fahren. Entschieden wurde sozusagen spontan vor Ort. Es geht in den Sueden Richtung Goa. Genau der passende Ausgleich nach dem kalten Norden in den warmen Sueden zu fahren. Doch zunaechst zu Delhi. Delhi war beim zweiten Besuch fast genauso stressig wie beim ersten. Aber natuerlich nicht wegen des Jetlags sondern einfach deswegen weil ich jeden Tag irgendwie auf Achse [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone, Delhi seems to me to epitomize all that is wonderful and horrible about India. I ended my trip here, but most tourists start here because Delhi is a major international destination. I heard more than one horror story from fellow tourists that I met in Agra and Varanasi about the tourist scams that go on. One couple told me that instead of taking them to their hotel their taxi driver dropped them off at a 'tourist information office' which was a front for a travel agent selling private tours of Agra, Jaipur and Delhi. They tried to tell leave, [View Full Entry]

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This quote comes from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi or in India as Bapu. Gandhi was the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian Independence movement, and since his birthday (a national holiday) falls on the 2nd October - shortly after my arrival here in India - I thought it only right to pay my respects. The following day I headed out with Melissa, a fellow volunteer, and together we travelled by auto rickshaw to Old Delhi and to the final resting place of Gandhi. Raj Ghat was our destination, the site is [View Full Entry]

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Day 15 - 16 Back to delhi We arrived back in Delhi with a mixture of happiness that we were going home and a little sadness that our adventure had come to an end. During the day we had gone to Connaught Square for the last bit of shopping, and managed to finish our shopping and ensure that we had presents for everyone. We had one last meal with everyone at tea time and met at the only bar that had a drinks licence. It was the one we had visited right at the start of the holiday and was full [View Full Entry]

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Following my time in Cambodia, I decided to hit up India to see the Taj Mahal and to see for myself the illusions created by Rudyard Kipling and journalists of the early 1900's. I arrived in Delhi and I was expecting the airport to be a total shithole, as noted by many travelers who have passed through it. It wasn't as bad as I anticipated, and I have certainly been in worse (Cairo, Nairobi, among others). Well I fought my way through customs and into the country only to run into a road block at getting a ride. There are abuot [View Full Entry]

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It’s cruel how quickly the seasons change. One week I was sitting in my boxers, sweating profusely while drinking ice water (which promptly turned to hot water in my hands). The next, the sky has turned an even hazier gray, and the mornings are less than tepid. So I suppose that the weather has not changed too much, except that the difference is excrutiating without hot water. Thus, my mornings have become a painful foray into Antarctic chills. I wake up, having covered up from the fan above me, which is used to keep the air moving and, my roommate claims, [View Full Entry]

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