Friday, October 20, 2006
4 October, 2006
The flight from Munich to Delhi was awful and we hardly slept. Dinner was served so late and breakfast so early, Samoosas for breakfast – I mean really!
We arrived safely and our driver was waiting for us at the airport. At first the drive wasn’t too bad but then… the culture shock hit. Even though we were so prepared. Our driver stopped in the most chaotic, dirty, scary road and that was apparently the hotel. Well, I was a bit nervous to get out the car at first, but we quickly slipped into the air-conditioned hotel door and I guess that felt a bit safer. We got to the room and we searched for the shower in the bathroom. Eventually, once Rich had already left to go and enquire about it, I found the shower head in the middle of the wall. We then had to ask for toilet paper and towels. We decided we needed to sleep before we head out into the big city. Luckily our room had no windows so it was pitch dark- very suitable for a morning snooze. We got up at lunch time and decided to walk to Connaught Place. This is the main shopping area in Delhi and our walk from the hotel was not far. The only inconvenience was that we had to walk passed the train station which was not very pleasant to say the least. Besides walking passed cows, monkeys, bodies and stray dogs, we had to weave in between the cars, trucks, motorbikes, rickshaws, bicycles and tricycles that almost kill you along the way. Otherwise it is a fairly easy walk. We had some lunch, walked around a bit trying to get familiar with this new, chaotic country; and then we decided to get the rickshaw back to the hotel. By night time, we had already got three different tour operators involved with our travels.
The flight from Munich to Delhi was awful and we hardly slept. Dinner was served so late and breakfast so early, Samoosas for breakfast – I mean really!
We arrived safely and our driver was waiting for us at the airport. At first the drive wasn’t too bad but then… the culture shock hit. Even though we were so prepared. Our driver stopped in the most chaotic, dirty, scary road and that was apparently the hotel. Well, I was a bit nervous to get out the car at first, but we quickly slipped into the air-conditioned hotel door and I guess that felt a bit safer. We got to the room and we searched for the shower in the bathroom. Eventually, once Rich had already left to go and enquire about it, I found the shower head in the middle of the wall. We then had to ask for toilet paper and towels. We decided we needed to sleep before we head out into the big city. Luckily our room had no windows so it was pitch dark- very suitable for a morning snooze. We got up at lunch time and decided to walk to Connaught Place. This is the main shopping area in Delhi and our walk from the hotel was not far. The only inconvenience was that we had to walk passed the train station which was not very pleasant to say the least. Besides walking passed cows, monkeys, bodies and stray dogs, we had to weave in between the cars, trucks, motorbikes, rickshaws, bicycles and tricycles that almost kill you along the way. Otherwise it is a fairly easy walk. We had some lunch, walked around a bit trying to get familiar with this new, chaotic country; and then we decided to get the rickshaw back to the hotel. By night time, we had already got three different tour operators involved with our travels.
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 7:06 AM 
