Oberoi New Delhi

Hello from New Delhi.   Our trip on Swiss Air was just fine. At that time only tuk-tuks (motorized rickshaws) taxis and trucks were on the road.  It is a law here that trucks can only drive and deliver during the night.  It ...

... nbsp;                     Oberoi Udaillas Ugliest hotel:  Taj at Kujuraho--the walls, carpets, and upholstery were all the same peacodk feather ...

... are in textile overload by this point.  We have seen so many gorgeous things for two weeks. We flew in the afternoon back to New Delhi.  When we started out trip, I referred to this city ae dirty and dusty.  Now that we have returned here ...

... other things, the Taj Mahal.   It seems that boasting never fails to backfire. After arriving late in the evening two nights ago in New Delhi and getting settled in to the hotel, we decided to get a small bite to eat before going to bed. I had a ...

... the train to New Delhi, where we will stay tonight. The train ride from Sawai Madhopur, the town nearest Ranthambore National Park, to New Delhi was 5½ hours and I must have slept three of them. We learned later how lucky we were—yesterday's train ...

... entry.  This weekend another recruiting opportunity outside of town presented itself and I find myself heading up to the capital of India, New Delhi...or as many of the locals simply call it, Delhi.  Like my previous trip, I'll be going ...

... our bags, meet a new tour member who is joining us from Florence, Italy, and have lunch before commencing touring. The hotel (an Oberoi) has upgraded all the members of the tour to suites, with a sitting room and a bedroom. They are truly fantastic! Our ...

... a bodyguard.  Later he confirmed that he was keeping his eyes out for the thieves that frequent this part of Delhi.    Finally we are allowed to dismount this contraption and we walk a little distance to stretch out our ...

... place to stay).    We went out with our tour guide this morning and visited the Jama (sp?) mosque in Old Delhi.  The traffic entering Old Delhi was crazy (we had to pass about 500 goats and 1 elephant in addition to the thousands ...

... his country.   Check in was a snap and the flight was smooth.  An hour after take-off we landed in New Delhi where we were greeted by Uday, the Rajasthan 4 Wheel representative. From the airport we drove thru some very beautiful, ...

... A to B). Anyway, after an emotional reunion, Ajay and i began our month adventure together...walking through the streets of New Delhi, eating bhel puri, the Red fort illuminated at night and the rickshaw-wallahs...and the sheer contentment of being in ...

... getting organized again and replacing most of my lost items. With help from Jean and Romano who both know Delhi very well I bought a new daypack, laptop, prescription glasses, sunglasses and so on. I spent hours on Skype and email struggling with ...

... added his own touches on top with white marble. He also added the white marble to the front gate We moved on to the Oberoi and checked in after Akbar's tomb. This is an extremely nice hotel. We sat out on the bar patio and drank king fishers ...

We left dusty, foggy New Delhi and are now in the small, remote city of Udaipur.  New Delhi is not very interesting, although it is the capitol city.  The old part, Delhi, is terribly poor, overcrowded, and slummy.  It is on one side of the ...

We arrived in Bangalore around 10: 00 AM on Friday.  It was a 2 1/2  hour flight from New Delhi.  It is really hard to describe the airports in India.  The best way would probably be to picture a bus depot...in a dodgy part of ...

... may be lost to development, especially in tourist quarters. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, based in London and New Delhi, tourism in India is expected not only to generate $61 billion in 2007 but to grow significantly in the years ...

We flew back to New Delhi from Varanasi on Christmas Eve afternoon. Our plane circled over Delhi for 40 minutes before we landed and then we fought traffic for an hour in a taxi to get from the airport to the Oberoi Hotel in Delhi where we would ...

... too quickly around Rajasthan, so by the time that the toy train pulled in at dusk, after having set out from our New Delhi hotel at 6am, we were absolutely exhausted.  Before the British influence on India, there was no Shimla. The land ...