Good morning everyone...from the top of the Lord Krishna hotel (?) main bazaar Old Delhi. Its about 19 degrees with a beautiful wind and the sky is full of the usual smoke (looks like a forest fire!) which gives the scene below us a surreal look. Ear plugs are our new best friend as the sounds of horns blaring (you don't need a motor over here..but always a horn!) dogs barking etc. The street are crawling with people (that's what happens when 18 million people live in a 1700 sq. km city!) tuk tuks, rickshaws a few cows chewing on garbage!
This place is amazing...the food absolutely amazing (the best we have ever tasted!) at about 2 dollars a meal...a ghetto room for 10 dollars a night and you have it made! The people are super friendly and it is one of the safest places we have ever travelled! Lots of scams to keep one on their toes and masses upon masses of people. The transit systems are like cattle loading and unloading chutes and the security tight (you get checked like the airport just getting onto the transit etc.)
A day here is truly a mental and physical test...and although we have only been here four days it feels like we have experienced two weeks of life! If you have ever wondered how one might die in India consider the following: India has the worst traffic safety record in the world with 166,000 traffic DEATHS per year..yes there is alot of people but in fact very few vehicles! I guess one might consider this just another form of population control.
Lots of amazing old forts and ruins strewn about the city.
We are staying in the old (read poorer) parts of this huge city but the downtown area would challenge downtown Vancouver for money, massive infrastructure fancy cars etc. but none of that in Old Delhi (old Delhi is area constructed prior to the British leaving in 1947-48)
Just heading out to Rishikesh in the North...if we can figure out how to get to the bus station!!!
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| the untouchable caste tries to deal with the garbage.... |
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| view from our humble abode in old Delhi |
A day here is truly a mental and physical test...and although we have only been here four days it feels like we have experienced two weeks of life! If you have ever wondered how one might die in India consider the following: India has the worst traffic safety record in the world with 166,000 traffic DEATHS per year..yes there is alot of people but in fact very few vehicles! I guess one might consider this just another form of population control.
Lots of amazing old forts and ruins strewn about the city.
Just heading out to Rishikesh in the North...if we can figure out how to get to the bus station!!!
