We arrived in New Delhi early on Saturday and managed to not get ripped off taking a taxi from the airport to the city! We got dropped off at the bottom of the Main Bazaar and it was quite an experience walking the few hundred meters to our hotel; The Smyle Inn (grand hotel all things considering, our rooms were very clean and the staff were very pleasant). ...The whole place smells of incense, curry, cow manure and urine and there are people everywhere. Literally everywhere you look there are hundreds of people just standing around. If you could freeze frame just one small section of the Main Bazaar at any given time, day or night, you would have at least two stray cows, four stray dogs, one man pissing, two women arguing, one man sleeping
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