Blogs from New Delhi, National Capital Territory, India, Asia - page 7

Villes visités : New Delhi, Mandawa, Bikaner, Jaselmeir, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Pushkar, Jaipur, Agra, Varanasi, Amritsar. Je pensais bien avoir droit à un choc culturel en arrivant en Inde mais ce fut plutôt un choc corporel. Les 42 degrés à l’ombre (76% d’humidité), le vol de +/- 24 heures et les 10 heures de décalage m'ont légèrement mis à terre. 2 siestes par jour durant quelques jours pour me remettre sur le piton! Aussi, l’inde est principalement végétarien alors le manque de viande est aussi difficile. On a l’impression de manger souvent la même chose : pain (pita et naan), plusieurs plats à base de patates, plusieurs bouchés frites et des currys (ragouts) contenant relativement peu de légumes pour du végé. Surprise, un resto avec des burgers! Déception, la boulette est une boulette de patate (frite évidemment). ... read more

I dragged myself out of bed and headed to the airport to meet Ruth, they charge people to get into meet their loved ones but I didnt bring any money so I had to wait outside. When Ruth arrived she couldn't see me waiting out there and security wouldn't let me in so I grabbed a man entering pointed her out and asked him to send her out. We returned to my hotel so Ruth could have a wash then began the long drive to Orchha stopping a couple of times along the way, the second stop was at Datia where a child magician put on an entertaining show just for us in the shadows of the stunning hilltop palace, it reminded me of the young tightrope walker I saw a few weeks before in Bihar. ... read more

Only two days 'til Colin and I head for Delhi. It will be amazing, elating, I will cry at what I see...and great currys will be eaten. See you all in four weeks! Jamie :-D... read more

I always knew deep down, for the longest time, that I wanted to do Ladakh some day. And this thought seemed a distant dream to me, rather unthinkable back then when I started to work a few years ago as a Corporate Lawyer in one of the Legal Firms in Delhi. I have always lead a very cliched' life. Always had this burning desire to travel, to explore the unknown, to rediscover myself and to tread a path filled with stories and memories. However, I never tried to look inside of me, my passion, my dreams. They were lying dormant somewhere deep down inside of me waiting to be unleashed and to be unfolded. It just so happened that sometime last year in the month of July, I finally took the call of pulling out of ... read more

The underbelly of travelling cheaply is that compromises have to be made in oder to lower the cost. When we booked Wongdhen House we chose it for its value, being fairly cheap yet fairly good condition. To save money we booked it for two nights only - the 7th and 8th. Because check in time is noon, and our flight arrived into Delhi at 4.30am this morning (the 7th) we agreed to wait until noon for a driver to pick us up. Cue eight hours of waiting. There is only so long I can spend disinterestedly reading Reddit before it becomes a chore. Ultimately it was eight hours of nothingness: it wasn't even boring. It just felt like a stretch of absent-presence. Marc Auge describes airport waiting rooms as non-places designed to be almost outside time ... read more