viernes, 28 de septiembre de 2007

Welcome to Delhi Claudia!
























































Here I am in India. I flew into Delhi and shared a taxi with a Kiwi, Neil, he was very helpful. After finding a good and cheap hotel in Main Bazar, we met again for a chai (tea with milk), my first taste of India, and it was good!
Delhi is huge, chaotic, dirty and very very noisy, but I found moving around pretty easy and I felt confident in the city from the first day.
My friend carles came one day later and we went to see the touristic places, the Red fort (picture on the right), the big mosque, the bird hospital, when we were in front of a Sij Temple started raining a bit, then a bit more and then suddently all the roads were floaded and we had water to our knees. We were completely soaked and some ladies from the temple offered us to enter in the shoe room (were they keep the shoes of the people going inside the temple) and we were offered chai (tea) and biscuits and they even put some kind of cloth to cover my head. Everybody in India has been so friendly, I haven't been harassed at all, maybe it's because I look Indian??
I have seen cows, dogs, cats, people from different places, sellers of false beards, people that offer you a ear-cleaning service in the middle of the street, little boys and girls with the school uniform, sij families looking grand, poor ricksaw drivers carrying lots of big boxes in their cycles, people sleeping everywhere, even by the dirty noisy roads...
On the third day I went to the Gate of India and to see where the prime minister lives, it all looks a mixed of British and Indian, very wide roads with lots of parks and grass areas, very different from Old Delhi. That day I moved around by metro, the best thing in Delhi! I can't believe more people use it, it is clean, dead cheap and it has air conditioned!

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