carolinepie

Oh MY GOODNESS!! I am sore, more specifically my back and bum are sore, and not from anything naughty either! ;) I've just had a journey from HELL. So yesterday was a good day, we braved the streets of Delhi in a taxi to make it to the train station, where we boarded the Shatabi express to Amritsar, big city (well not big at all in their terms but pretty big) in Punjab. Now I was thinking all the worst things possible about Indian rail travel: Trains that ran about a day late, filthy holes in the rusting floor for toilets, loads of hassle from people at all station trying to flog you daal, newspapers, chai, whatever, but no I was really pleasantly surprised. We boarded an air-con carriage, where the seats were both clean and ... read more

Greetings from completely MAD Delhi. So I'm FINALLY here, after almost a year of looking forward to my trip I'm here!! And it is completely INSAne!! What an assualt on the senses, like we come out of the airport and just to walk to a car to take us to Delhi, we pass about 10 street kids begging (very hard to know what to do there), 3 cows, yes cows like just outside the doors of the airport, and they're sacred u know so that is the one thing cars do try to avoid hitting on the roads (i'll come to that later), men and woman from every religion I can think of it brightly coloured clothing to match, piles of rubbish, heavy rain which seems to be steaming on the cracked pavement, and the sounds ... read more