Delhi

Trip Start Dec 26, 2008
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Trip End Feb 06, 2009


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Where I stayed
Samit's House (Friend of Ted's from London)
(Delhi hotels)

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

As we exited the plane yesterday at Delhi airport, we both breathed a sigh of relief - as it was cool.  No more humid, damp, sticky heat.  Finally, a temperature where after dark, a jumper is required instead of needing to wring out your shirt.  Bliss.  Our stopover in Delhi was brief, and Ted's friend Samit kindly put us up.  His family fed us to within an inch of our lives, and then we both agree we had probably the best night's sleep either of us have had since we arrived, just because it was cool.

This morning, we were dropped at the train station to catch the train to Agra.  At the train station, we were besieged by locals trying to scam us into buying another ticket, by telling us the train was delayed for four hours, our tickets were no longer valid as a result, etc etc.  Fortunately, we'd read our Lonely Planet, and knew they were pulling a fast one - so we made our way to the platform, and boarded the train with relatively little fuss.  We were in 3rd Class, A/C so not quite as plush as on the train from Goa to Cochin, but perfectly adequate for our 3 hour train ride.  We got chatting to Gary, a taxi driver from Worthing who is in India for 7 weeks and after a brief snack, we found ourselves in Agra.
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