Birla Mandir Temple (Lakshmi Narayan) New Delhi

Wow - despite Dip telling me lots of stories about India, the culture, the people and the environment I chose not to really believe him and instead wait until I experienced it for myself. And oh my god every word he said is true. India, New Delhi, is a crazy, chaotic, traffic fueled, polluted, overpopulated, exhausting and intriguing place. I have …

Up early (for a holiday) as we had a full day sightseeing today. Breakfast was an extensive buffet but we both headed straight for the Indian breakfast - me with the Keralan idli and spicy sambhar, Corinne with a variety of North Indian treats from spicy to sweet halwa. Fabulous! First stop was the Qutub Minar, a 72m high monument built in 1200AD …

Aujourd'hui nous partons à la découverte de l'héritage britannique: New Delhi.

Une malédiction veut que toute personne qui construit une ville sur cette terre la perde aussi tôt. Cela s'est avéré vrai pour les Anglais, qui ont du quitter la ville quinze ans après l'avoir créé... et avoir passé 20 ans à la construire!

Au Nord …

Days two and three.
Today we focused on the thousands of millions of religions in India. When we were living in Italy, mama had to trick, bribe or bully Harry and me into creeping into every single (absolutely gorgeous, mind you, but after a while practically identical) church that cropped up around the Roman streets like Starbucks in Manhattan …

Having heard that India is an 'assualt on your senses', we believed we were prepared for Delhi - how wrong we were! We got into a 'legal' taxi at the airport, told him where we wanted to go but ended up getting taken to a tourist office (we had heard of a scam where taxi drivers tell you that your hotel is fully booked so they get commission taking …

Entry containing 2 photos titled: India Gate, New Delhi (Capital of Ind, Red Fort, New Delhi (Capital of India)

Due to a strong tail wind we had a quick flight and landed only 20min late in Indira Gandhi airport, Delhi. After a nervous wait we picked up our bags and found our driver outside the airport.

Wow! Talk about sensory overload. I was expecting it having done all the planning, and was still shocked, but it hit Owen hard. He was not expecting …