New Delhi
Travel Blogs from New Delhi, India
Happy Birthday!
... bloed gewesen um die Zeit etwas zu suchen... 1. Tag (16.3.2011): Rahul zeigt mir den wohl saubersten Platz in Delhi - ein sauteures, westlich orientiertes Einkaufszentrum "Skywalk". Spaeter bekomm ich einen Geburtstagskuchen mit 5 Kerzen von ihm. Wow, war ...
The Final Stop Of My Trip
... drive up the wrong side of the road if they fell like it - crazy!! I had a full day of sightseeing around both New Delhi and Old Delhi yesterday, the tour started off with a ride on the back of a motorbike across delhi - an experience i dont wish to ...
New Delhi, India
Barnaby and his friends paid a quick visit to New Delhi. From here they flew to ...
Prelude
... I will play harder! So far I am living up to my new-year resolutions. First month of the year takes me to West Coast of India and Second month to Krabi for Suba Diving. With my fingers crossed I hope to be diving from the sky and also driving in Sikkim ...
Right Action
It is nearing the anniversary of my first week in New Delhi, India and what an amazing and incredible week it has been. I must first speak about the roads. What is something that all people have in common in their daily existence? Where do all ...
Goodbye India, Hello home
... but not much of an apetite. I hope to maybe take in some sights today. We saw old delhi when i first arrived in india, but now we're staying in new delhi and there's a lot more to se. Well, we'll se how it goes. I havew dinner planned to night with Pete ...
Happy 4th of July!
... my core temperature stabilized I felt the need to get out there and photograph more of the indescribable scenery of the streets of Delhi before nightfall, as I didn’t envision myself coming back anytime soon. I walked around for about an hour, ...
Greetings from India
Just wanted to get this blog started. I'd love your feedback, thoughts, and inspirations alog the way. Please forward the address to anyone you think might be interested. ...
Finally Delhi, Not Just Passing Through
... begging on the streets in Old Delhi between Chandri Chowk and the Red Fort. It is such an incredible contrast going from Old Delhi to New Delhi, like going from the 17th to the 21st century and all within a kilometre. We skipped the Red Fort having seen ...
My first taste of India
... kept staring at me wondering what the white girl was doing on the plane by herself. The flight was good though until we got to Delhi. There was a storm just passing and so we flew around in circles until we could land. As we were landing, we flew into a ...
Day One / Welcome Dinner
... Now, at last, we truly felt that we had traveled to India. Everyone absolutely LOVED the experience. We visited a mosque, and old Delhi, then a building that had served as inspiration to the man who built the Taj Mahal. Peaceful, manicured gardens. A ...
Missed Flights and Pizza Bites
... to a beautiful rooftop restaurant called 'Olives’ where I will credit for being the spot where I stopped truly worrying about being in India. The weather was perfect, the view divine, and the beer tasted fine, fine, fine. As we sat eating pizzas and ...
Our Last Day in Delhi
... our luggage for the day, thankfully. We meet our driver and set off for some proper sightseeing which includes government buildings in New Delhi and two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, one of which is a tomb that inspired the Taj Mahal. First we ...
Vendredi, 30 janvier 1948
... apprécié, du moins jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Je vous laisse là-dessus. À côté de ça, les petites aventures qu'offre New Delhi me semblent complètement superflues. Je savais que je ce voyage allait être difficile, mais je ne savais pas jusqu'à quel ...
First sights of India
... just talking in the typical Southall accent where in fact he was talking in Hindi; which are actually pretty similar. First impressions of India were that all the stereotypes were wrong, as the airport was clean and cool. This didn't last for long as when ...
Finally in India
I read as much as I could get my hands on before I came here, so perhaps I was a bit over prepared, or maybe it is because I live in a third world country, but I was not as overwhelmed as I expected to be when I arrived. Yes, there are lots of beggars, ...
Calamity Express
It was simple; overnight train to Delhi, bus to airport then flight to Goa for two weeks of pre Blighty sun and sand. Unfortunately someone threw a spanner in the works and with our guard down our passports, camera, credit cards and phone were stolen ...
More Delhi and Apartment Picts.
The latest pictures are of Delhi, My Office and our new apartment, Our apartment is still getting more furniture but as you can see, it's coming along. Enjoy ...
Planes and Paharganj
... . A cheerless welcoming committee greeted me as i landed and collected my pummeled rucksack from the conveyor belt. (Some distance outside Delhi, and this is early evening.) But i managed to share a rickshaw with John and Ricky into Paharganj, a cheap-ish ...
New Delhi
... free henna tattooing - although too tired to do the tattoo thing. All up, we plan to never ever go to Delhi again! Waz coped fine but I was so happy to leave after 2 full days that I almost started crying when the train pulled out of New Delhi ...
New Dehli - Very Smelly !
... one. If you don't know what an Enfield is then this quote from the book Shanteram may help: The Enfield of India 350cc Bullet was a single cylinder, four stroke motorcycle, constructed to the plans of the original 1950's model of the British Royal ...
Happy Birthday Mum!
... in this house. Not fussy like me, who makes faces at certain vegetables that she cooks or pretends to be on a diet. Stan's mother is also arriving in India the day after tomorrow and my father arrives the same day from Mizoram. So it's family ...
We're in Delhi!
... at the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi. It was great to meet up with Vinay (our Minneapolis neighbor) outside of the Delhi Airport customs. He took us to their Delhi digs (the home of their good friends Nikhil, Varsha and their 5-year-old ...
India: In Review
... of trash. While the gap between rich and poor may be growing everywhere, nowhere is it more apparent than in India. And nowhere is a society more heterogeneous. There are so many different cultures coexisting here that attempting to fully ...
Start of week 2
... doing some amazing work with the poorest of the poor. Last night I had dinner at the home of some new friends. Abhijit, a friend from Rotman, is from Delhi and has been so helpful to me in the last few weeks getting organized and oriented. Luckily, a ...
Woah
... to be driven around Delhi. We saw the Baha'i lotus flower-shaped temple. It is so beautiful. Search Baha'i temple Delhi on google images. You'll see. Then the driver drove us to the political district and showed us the ...

