Blogs from National Capital Territory, India, Asia - page 14

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

What a crazy place! The flights were fine although the Doha-Delhi one was just over 3 hours, and I was gutted with this as I thought it would be longer and planned to sleep, but between food service and crying babies it didn't happen. I'd done all my ringing round at Heathrow, to say my farewells, and did a bit of shopping and sat down to have some food. It was then I opened the card from Gareth, Michelle, and the boys reading 'There are just some things in life that just have to be done' and I got a little lump in my throat, not quite believing I was off on the first of many travels this year, that I have wanted to do for so long. I got through security no problems in Delhi ... read more

We continued on our final leg of the journey with no overnight halts this time around. We had two cars, Innova, to be specific, six in one car and five in the other as had been the arrangement with us from the day we started off from Manali. Our Tour Leader ensured that we carried at least one oxygen cylinder in each car in case of an emergency owing to low air pressure which we would face on our way especially on the passes resulting in less intake of oxygen. So, we had kept two cartons of water bottles in each car to hydrate ourselves at short regular intervals to counter the acute mountain sickness (AMS). Since now it was going to be one long journey of ascents, descents, passes and plains with only quick stops/breaks ... 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