Blogs from New Delhi, National Capital Territory, India, Asia - page 5

My next birding stop in Delhi was the Sultanpur National Park which is just outside the city. This is almost (but not quite) as easy to get to by public transport as the Okhla Bird Sanctuary, but it is totally worth the small effort. As yesterday, the start point was the Ravij Chowk metro station, from where I headed to the Huda City Centre station in Gurgaon (an outlying district of Delhi where the local street animal is not dogs or cows but pigs). This takes just over an hour and costs 25 rupees (there's approximately 50 rupees to one NZ dollar). From there I had to take an auto-rickshaw to the Gurgaon Bus Stand from which Mr. Internet had told me there is a Haryana bus route which passes the park. In India a "bus ... read more

My flight out of Kota Kinabalu was scheduled for 12.30pm and left at 1.30. It's two and a half hours between KK and KL so I arrived at 4pm, and then my next flight on to New Delhi in India was at 7pm. So far all my flights except the first (between Christchurch and Auckland) have been with Air Asia. Like the old saying goes, if man wasn't meant to fly there wouldn't be Air Asia air hostesses. There were quite a few white girls in the departure lounge dressed in "Indian hippy" style. They look like they have walked into an Indian clothes shop and said "just dress me in everything you've got". It's almost like a weird form of racism. I mean, all the Indians are dressed in normal clothes and these white girls ... read more

At once solemn and impressive. It reminds India has its heroes, too. He could have become a wealthy lawyer but saw a much higher purpose for his life. Now he'll be memorialized for all time.... read more

Leh’d – Pilgrimage of riders. I am riding since 2012 and riding in terrains of Ladakh was my dream since long time and finally 2016 gave me escape from my work and other responsibilities. Some experienced riders and my other friends warn me to not to go with my 2009 make FZ but my dream was to accomplish this ride with my own baby so 2ndpreference was not an option for me. Obviously this was my best ride I ever had. Even though we had to face some minor breakdowns, sanitation problems but that was part of adventure and obviously we was mentally prepared for that. My attitude towards riding has changed after this ride and world, distances seems smaller. We started our ride on 29th may’16 from Delhi and our target was Jammu which we ... read more

This, our last morning in Delhi, and India, we slept in late… almost 7am! I worked on my blogs for a while, while Manoli packed our bags and watched some TV. Did I mention their TV programming? It seemed to us that even though they had hundreds of channels; 1 out of 3 was religious, usually with chanting and instruments; 1 out of 3 was a Bollywood sort of song and dance routine, and the rest were news or soap operas. We stored our bags downstairs and went looking for a supposed supermarket south of our hotel called Big Apple. After almost getting lost several times, we finally found it. The supermarket was about the size of a 7-11 back home. Oh well, it was fun. We returned to the hotel and Manoli wanted to buy ... read more