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Delhi is pretty full on! as soon as i got off the plane a 3am on my own and tried to get a taxi from the air port to my hotel, the adventure began!what should have taken me a hour took me 3-4 hours beacause the taxi man and his mate didnt know where they were going!?the fisrt taxi i got in they were trying to con me saying that my hotel was no good and i couldnt go there(this is only beacause they get commission on taking people to certain places) so made me laugh when after i said ive already booked and paid for my room, they slammed the car into reverse and flew backwards to where we started both saying in unison weve forgotten where your hotel is!f***ers! the other taxi ride was mental, driving at speeds passed tuk tuks, people, batterd cars, other taxis and cows (who rule the roost) fully put your life into their hands and afetr i accepted this, a big feeling of calm came over me....followed by fear again when i thought he was gonna drop me off in the most run down dangerous place\neighbour hood\slum\town you can possibly imagine.cant be arsed to write the whole thing but i eventually found my hotel.
met my group, they are older for the most part, average age about 30, 2 other brits, all seem nice.as soon as i was with at least one other person i was fully confident with walking through the crowded and filth and mayhem theat is delhi. they are all insane. its brilliant, its definitly what i came for and i think living abroad has given me a good grounding for the massive culture change that this place is. its tottaly pointless me even trying to describe it because youl only know what its like by being here. it makes you scared and laugh, confused and understand things a little bit better all in one hit.the poverty is rife, and beggars are definitly here, but i dont feel affected by it in a guilty or a bad way, its just the way things are done here.death doesnt ever seem very far away wherever you look in delhi though. its an exciting place!
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