Hotel Suncourt Yatri New Delhi

... are melted at the government of India mint in Mumbai
to separate out the impurities and converted into bars of 999 purity. A
gold deposit certificate will be issued based on the weight of gold.


“The bank will buy the gold if the customer prefers to take money. We
later sell it off to the jewellers or keep it as assets for the bank,”
said the official.

The ...

... amp; the glittering
bazaars of Jaipur. Back to hotel via Birla Mandir.
Overnight at hotel.
DAY17:
JAIPUR-AGRA(BYSURFACE)

Morning, departure by car for the fabled city
of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal. En route visit
Delhi, Delhi, India kamlavati

... be beaten - by any means possible. The driver weaved in and out of the road, skimming rickshaws, cars, people, the curb and even the odd cow. This guy could drive at 60mph and miss them all while demanding everyone else to get out of the way with excess use of his horn. To be honest, everyone uses their horn here. Not just a couple of times. But all the time. Unlike back home, where it's ...

... up on lost time. Not all the decisions we made during our time away were easy ones. See you all soon or in the near future.....

Here are our highlights....
South America
Argentina:
- The excitement of exploring our first stop, the beautiful Buenos Aires
- Enjoying an ice-cream on our first night away and then watching the city go by from the roof top of our hostel
- The sumptuous steaks and red wine
- The beautiful ...

... sad. Apart from a bit of scene setting relating to our first few days in Delhi I have restricted the description of sights to the main attractions since if everything of interest had been included this newsletter would be twenty pages long. Although we have never been to India before we had some idea what to expect because of our daughter Jane's trip there seven years ago. However, I do not think you can ever be fully prepared for what ...

... one I just laugh and point them to Peter. I bought a couple of felt items from this nice seller in an alley way (if alleyway even means anything in Kathmandu). Then I found a really nice coat that actually fit and bought it. A bar upstairs was playing pink Floyd songs. Then I had a very urgent need for a bathroom. I ran around. Bathroom I need a bathroom. I go down the alleyway where the seller is and I ask for the bathroom ...

... is very very crowded. Apparently the official number of people is about 10.5 million, though some local people believe it is more like 20 million. The streets are mostly dirt, or very torn up cement, and are crowded with people, bikes, rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, motorcycles, cars, and vegetable handcarts. Traffic laws, stop lights, traffic lanes need not apply here. It is a free for all. Let me tell you, rush hour ...

... up the bulk of those attempting to jostle their way in so I took few snaps around the Fort and decided to head for a dosa and a lassi instead. Back on the Metro at rush hour I realised disorder was starting to slowly creep onto the platforms after being whiplashed by a Ronnie Corbett lookalike whilst getting on the train. A small observation about Delhi-folk....they go where they want ...

... AM and did not arrive in New Delhi station until 11 AM. We had made advance reservations at the Hotel Yatri International for an AC room w/bath for 1300R. But when we arrived our room was not ready. So it was one damn thing after another. The management put us in a temporary room so we could clean up and rest after our trip; and we were able pack up four packages filled with souvenirs, which we had accumulated since Kathmandu, and ship them from the ...

... hinduska krowe, no a w hoteliku przywitala nas mini jaszczurka, ktora wygladem i zachowaniem przypominala karalucha.Pokoj okazal sie dosc obskurny ale przynajmniej obsluga byla dosyc sympatyczna. Sciagnelysmy sie z lozka o 14.30. Wyjscie z hotelu nami wstrzasnelo. To prawda ze na Indie nie sposob sie przygotowac. Masa ludzi i zalosnie wygladajacych zwierzat. Halas trabiacych samochodow, riksz, rowerow,nawolywania sprzedawcow.Slodki ...