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

Ben dis donc, ca fait maintenant une semaine que je suis a Delhi. Y'a des hauts, ou je me dis que c vraiment chouette. Y'a des bas, ou je me demande qu'est-ce qui m'a pris de venir ici pis je me dis que je veux retourner chez-moi. On va y aller avec les bas, qui, soit dit en passant, je ne porte pas souvent parce qu'il fait drolement chaud par ici. Mon voisin de siege dans l'avion, un americain demeurrant au Texas mais pas Texan, habitue de l'Inde, me disait : "Delhi is a rip off" Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas cette expression, ca veut dire "Une arnaque". Apres une semaine seulement a Delhi, j'ai depense pres de la moitie de mon budget. Bon, relativisons. Quand on sait que par la j'entends 400$, que j'ai ... read more

Comme je disais, je suis arrive en Inde et je suis en bonne Sante. J'ai dormi de 11h00 PM hier a 14h00 PM aujourd'hui. Le vol etait impeccable et mon transport pour l'hotel etait absent. Premiere aventure indienne... j'ai pris un taxi officiel de l'aeroport, le chauffeur etait tres gentil, il m'a redemande l'adresse des dizaines de fois une fois qu'on approchait, l'hotel etait cache apperemment... On y est arrive tout de meme dans une region relativement bonde (ouais, en passant, desole pour les accents, y'en a pas ici...). Les dernieres routes menant a l'hotel etait tres etroite, ce qui donnait l'impression parfois d'etre en sens inverse dans un one way... Arrive a l'hotel, le receptionniste avait envie de me reprimande : "You told us 3PM, my guy was there!" trop fatigue pour l'engueuler, je lui ... read more

Geo: 28.6137, 77.1834I would dearly love to beguile you with tales of beautiful lotus temples and ancient tombs, however, the most I saw of the nation's capital city was the inside of my hotel room and the street outside for about 200m each way!!! Not being able to keep food down, in 40 degree plus heat is not an experience I care to repeat, although with the countries I have yet to come, I fear I shall not be able to avoid it! On arrival in Dehli, I was feeling slightly human, and went out for some noodles, from a Nepalese restaurant… it went pretty well, until the morning! Fortunately (if you can call it that!) it had confined itself to spewing only now, which I guess was a blessing. The following day was spent in ... read more

I am sitting in a train to Agra, chai vendor has already walked by three times, people are eating a late breakfast and the train is heading towards the South. So Delhi is done for us, at least for this time. Delhi started for Vanya about 7 hours earlier compared to myself, when I still was in a hotel in Bangkok and he was already in Delhi airport. So he is now an expert in all colours and shades of the Indian military and security forces, where to buy food at the airport and where to take a nap. Driving from the airport to the hotel in an overpaid but still cheap taxi was fun, surely noone sticks to the lanes on the road and cars go in 7 rows instead of 5, honking whenever they ... read more

DELHI, NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, INDIA. Thursday 5 April, 2012. Our guide, Shaitevda, was waiting for us in the hotel reception and the trusty Mr Barun was in the car. We drove through the amazingly clean and completely Holy Cow free streets of, mainly residential, South Delhi, into New Delhi and out to Old Delhi which was the first stop of our tour. Mr Barun dropped us just outside the famous Red Fort. We did not visit this, Delhi's most famous monument, as it is exactly the same as the Red Fort in Agra which we had already seen. However, this was a great place for us hire a rickshaw for a tour of Old Delhi with its narrow streets. M and D had one rickshaw and Shaitevda had another. Though it is not, in fact, the ... read more