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Day 29 - Exploring Delhi
... that houses the memorial. All guests must remove their shoes before entering the Raj Ghat walls. When we visited the memorial was adorned with flowers....our guide told us this was because the king of Spain came here yesterday. Coming here was slightly emotional and we felt the impact of the great Gandhi Bapu. The platform had the words that he spoke before he passed away 'hai ram' Qutub minar Qutub Minar/ Qutb Minar, is a UNESCO World ...
ADVENTURE!!!!!!
... the airport two people tried to scam money from me and a
rickshaw driver argued with me, the hostel staff and the police for 10
minutes over 5 ruppies.
My fourth room in Sunny's guest house,
described in the lonely planet as 'crusty to the core' was as spacious
as ever. Almost able to touch all four walls at once, but I slept
through ...
Delhi Belly!
... the pre-pay rickshaw booth and paid 60 rupees, however by now we had lost 15mins of precious time (no thanks to the sneaky rickshaw drivers who kept trying to tell us “no, no the pre-pay is that way” (in the wrong direction), or “no, no, no there is no pre-pay” etc). Our driver didn’t speak English, and so when he begin to drive in the opposite direction of the station (on a map, he went a route which seemed 3 times as far) we became exasperated ...
Arrival in Delhi
... we paid half and we were to pay the other half on deleivery to our hotel. Eventually we got out of there, got ready and went out again. This is when we found out that a shower means a tap at hand level, large bucket and bowl. This is was fun trying to wash my hair like this! But I did it. As we were about to go out for food the guy from the fabric shop came to our hotel door. He said they made the dress but the dye ran when he washed it so he hve us ...
And The Taj Mahal............
... a sight I wont forget. The Taj made the claim that the sun and moon shred tears when first seeing the Taj...........it is that good:)
Not having a return ticket to New Delhi meant jumping a local train with the locals, (versus not making my Mumbai connection he next day)! Being invited to sit with a family of Indians, and drink English tea with them all, was a nice ...