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Delhi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Delhi, India
Delhi Belly in Delhi
... didnt trust myself walking around so I just hung out on the truck with Maureen who wasnt feeling too well either. We got to Delhi around 6 and I was brave enough to have a cheese swandwich for dinner (the first thing I'd eaten in about 36 hours) and ...
On the road again
Bangalore to Delhi Flight: Jet Airways 816 Depart: Sept. 16 4:00pm Arrive Sept. 16 ...
A day with Prema
... poori (made with wheat flour... they look like puff pastry shells, but are not sweet). I've mentioned already biryani, from north India. I've learned that "aloo" is a potato, but in south Indian food, it's called "masala". (There's a north Indian ...
Smelly Delhi
... long flight we land in Delhi airport at 6.30am, to 35 degree heat and a mass of people trying to bring you to your hotel. Delhi airport is chaos! Our drive to hotel was interesting and pretty dangerous to say the least. The rule seems to be watch the guy ...
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... check in we kept catching each other's eyes and grinning in disbelief at our surroundings. The contrast was immense. This was not India. We managed to suppress the guilt that we both inevitably felt, in favour of some personal pampering and gluttony. As ...
India: evite, se puder
India: evite, se puder Nova Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, Khajuraho e Varanasi. Ja basta. A civilizacao hindu nao convence. Suas cidades parecem ter recem-saido de uma guerra e um terremoto, simultaneos e arrazadores. Em toda parte, ruinas, devastacao e ...
A Thanksgiving to Remember
... . One guy in our group had just gotten back from Mumbai that weekend. The weird thing is that we've had two terrorist attacks in Delhi in the last three months and it hasn't really bothered us a whole lot. One of the reasons for that is the local reaction ...
Departure
... No rooms were available, but the hotel's manager kindly vacated one of his staff rooms to accomodate the foreign visitor's from faraway Delhi. Summertime in this region was hot, but the rooms were not airconditioned. After a meal of French Fries and ...
Barsana
Back dated entry: The plan was to leave Delhi at 3, and be in Barsana by 6. At half 6 the driver turned up (clearly running Indian Standard Time!). Eventually, after driving across vast tracts of countryside, narrowly making it across the railway line ...
Get me out of here?
... British decided to rebuild Delhi at some point within the last 100 years, and so they made New Delhi. A bit more on that later. I took a rickshaw to the India Heritage Center for breakfast, since after my train ride I had a hankering. My hankering was ...
Impossible India
... off all material things, including clothes, is a viable way to spirituality! In the truly terrible category, traveling through India was difficult. There is overwhelming pollution, a mess of traffic problems, garbage heaps all over the place, the ...
Short stopover...
We had to say bye to our driver after the final four hour journey back to Delhi. Here he let us out at the train station where we had already booked a sleeper train to Mumbai. We have really gotten better at dealing with irritating people that want our ...
3am Gridlock
... Onward to India. We land tonight in Delhi - one of the stinkier armpits of the world. God what a nightmare Delhi is. I have no love for India's capital city. We ended up getting kicked out of the airport because the "retiring rooms" were closed for ...
VEGGING OUT
Temperature has hit 40 degrees celsius....just feel like vegging out in Delhi until I get so bored it is on to Kathmandu. That I will asume happen early next ...
yamotri
The state of Uttaranchal is called the Devbhoomi or the divine land. Gangotri and Yamunotri are the famous pilgrim centers in the district of Uttarkashi. Gangotri is the source of origin of River Ganga and Yamunotri is the source of origin of the River ...
Delhi - Leaving home and the madness of Delhi
... Delhi. The flight was good and I managed to get about an hours sleep but was still knackered when I arrived in Delhi at 11:00. I was expecting to find it abit of a culture shock, but even with my worst expectations it still managed ...
A little Delhi I know
... to contact, Only one of which I did (apologies to the others.) So I'm not going to tell you about Delhi. Instead I'm going to tell you about Aaron. For those who haven't met the inimitable DJ Aaron James, I ...
Downtown Delhi
Leaving the tranquility of our base we ventured out the gate to see the sites and sounds of downtown Delhi. We flagged down a bicycle rickshaw and for the agreed price of 8p our driver puffed and peddled us to the metro, where we were catching the train ...
Kathgodammit!
... . The two men swinging at each other would be an exception then. It has been my observation from walking around Delhi that there are many confrontations... at least of the loud and verbal type. I never got around to dinner today, so I ...
Day 63 - Varanassi (NZ translation = Very-Nasty)
"F@#*!& rickshaw drivers and dodgey Hotel owners!" Well, I was warned but still fell for the oldest trick in the book. Arrived at Varanassi at 6:30am and gave the rickshaw driver clear and strict instructions to take me to the Vishnu Rest House at ...
Two Months In, Back in the Big City
... in Mussoorie and despite the Hindi final, which I'd rather not re-live, there was a long bus-ride through North India back down to Delhi to work out our apartment situation. Since then, we've settled in, and explored parts of Delhi that only widened ...
Dots not feathers
... was totally off. After hearing horror stories about this place I was ready for the worst, but I received the very best. Delhi is a buzzing metropolis, and everywhere you look (*if you dont pay attention to all the trash*) you get a ...
Cows, Ghandi, Massages...Oh My!
... culture or because we were obvious tourists. Connaught Place was our second stop and a well-known shopping area in Delhi. The district consists of small booths, store fronts, polished retail outfits, restaurants, etc. We made the mistake of ...
A Tour of Holy Places
... car, her son being high up in the Indian Army. It was in this that we then all journeyed, to Chatur Paur, a little outside Delhi. There were some grand temples there, and the one we were heading for was lovely and spacious, with white marble and a variety ...
Typical tourists
... experience... there were cows all over the sides (and sometimes the middle) of the roads. The drivers in India are absolutely competitive... cars stop within centimeters of each other, horns are used constantly, and buses fight with autorickshaws, ...
Doing nothing in Delhi!
... done anything all day except eat, sleep and generally lie around. But at least you will know that we have arrived safely in Delhi. The pollution here is truly terrible, you can actually taste it in your mouth. It was so bad we couldn't really bear ...
22/7/10: Landing in Leh... through a bed of clouds
... , that was the last I saw of him. Checked in, went through security, and started exploring the other side of Delhi airport, as I wasn't feeling sleepy anymore. Really beautiful! Tasteful, elegant, modern ... but NOT brash and opulent like Dubai. ...
Delhi
... worth of gems for pennies to the dollar. We spent the afternoon at the National Museum gaining a little more perspective into India's past, which is just as prehistoric as it is historic. There are 4000 year old bronze dolls, Hindu creation myth ...