Wicked Cacophony
It’s a circus; with the monkeys and elephants and many many types of clowns…
And dirty. Very dirty.
We arrived to Delhi after a 22h delay is Beijing; apparently the Beijing-Delhi direct flight stops in Shanghai (!$%&). It’s good that we have seen Delhi at night time- it was enough for us to decide to take the earliest train to Agra the following morning. After a nice dinner we went to sleep trying not to hover around and touch as little as possible.. we woke up at 04:30 and headed to the train station to look for the ticket booth to Agra (it was too late to book a ticket in advance). The friendly guides told us to go up, and down, and left, and right, and ‘no, now you need to cross the street’, and again up the stairs and down … we almost got a ticket but no – sold out. But we were lucky that the guide knew of a luxury bus – only 550r!! it was too spooky and seems like they are pulling the oldest trick in the book on us. so we went back to the station, stood in line and than in another line, to finally get a ticket and make it to the train about 3 minutes before it departed. Wow.
Agra is filthy. We spent the day with a guide that took us to see all the sites. The Agra fort is beautiful and of course – the Taj Mahal is indeed amazing and white and full with tourists trying to take cool picture as if they are holding the Taj on the palm of their hand :)
We took the bus the following morning to Jaipur and found a cool room with even a cooler porch and roof top in ‘Jaipur Inn’. Apparently, it was a national kite festival in the city (usually in Jan 14th – this year – Jan14th-Jan15th). We spent most of the afternoon watching the kite from the roof while enjoying the warm sun after cold Agra. after a walk in the pink city while admiring the kites and the fireworks and markets we headed back to the hotel for a buffet dinner on the roof.
Today, we headed to see a fort near by Jaipur; another walk in the city with an amazing visit to a local spices store.
The delay allowed me to complete ‘Rich dad, Poor dad’ before arriving to India. Now, Thanks to the Ledger, I’m emphatically reading ‘Ashtaram’.
Tomorrow we are heading to Pushkar.
Wicked. Cacophony. India.
And dirty. Very dirty.
We arrived to Delhi after a 22h delay is Beijing; apparently the Beijing-Delhi direct flight stops in Shanghai (!$%&). It’s good that we have seen Delhi at night time- it was enough for us to decide to take the earliest train to Agra the following morning. After a nice dinner we went to sleep trying not to hover around and touch as little as possible.. we woke up at 04:30 and headed to the train station to look for the ticket booth to Agra (it was too late to book a ticket in advance). The friendly guides told us to go up, and down, and left, and right, and ‘no, now you need to cross the street’, and again up the stairs and down … we almost got a ticket but no – sold out. But we were lucky that the guide knew of a luxury bus – only 550r!! it was too spooky and seems like they are pulling the oldest trick in the book on us. so we went back to the station, stood in line and than in another line, to finally get a ticket and make it to the train about 3 minutes before it departed. Wow.
Agra is filthy. We spent the day with a guide that took us to see all the sites. The Agra fort is beautiful and of course – the Taj Mahal is indeed amazing and white and full with tourists trying to take cool picture as if they are holding the Taj on the palm of their hand :)
We took the bus the following morning to Jaipur and found a cool room with even a cooler porch and roof top in ‘Jaipur Inn’. Apparently, it was a national kite festival in the city (usually in Jan 14th – this year – Jan14th-Jan15th). We spent most of the afternoon watching the kite from the roof while enjoying the warm sun after cold Agra. after a walk in the pink city while admiring the kites and the fireworks and markets we headed back to the hotel for a buffet dinner on the roof.
Today, we headed to see a fort near by Jaipur; another walk in the city with an amazing visit to a local spices store.
The delay allowed me to complete ‘Rich dad, Poor dad’ before arriving to India. Now, Thanks to the Ledger, I’m emphatically reading ‘Ashtaram’.
Tomorrow we are heading to Pushkar.
Wicked. Cacophony. India.
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