Arrived in the capital after a 4 hour flight from Cochin, including a stop over in Hyderabad. Everyone I had talked to about Delhi over the last month had said it was mental place traffic and pollution was the worst in India, people are hassling you all the time etc, so was expecting the worst and kinda looking forward to it, but got off the plane into a taxi and into a hotel with no problem I was really disappointed, wandered around the markets till late and again no problems, people asking to come into their shops but wasn’t in a bad way like some places. Even the traffic disappointed me, it was heavy but no manic, and I was staying in the worst area according to the lonely planet. The next morning I set off
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