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Hello From Delhi!!!
And what a 2 days it has been. I arrived at about 11am (530am UK Time) in New Delhi airport, there was no hotel transfer waiting for me like i had booked with STA. So I got a prepaid taxi which was about 3.50pounds, good considering it was 25km. The taxi man didnt know where my hotel was so we were driving round for ages looking for it. Eventually we went to the 'government official' (it wasnt) tourist office. They rang the hotel for me who then said that they were fully booked and didnt have a room for me. At this point it was 1pm i'd had no sleep since leaving home and i just wanted to cry. So we went to this hoetel where he thought it would have rooms - no rooms and then we went to about three others none of them had rooms! Eventually we went back to the tourism office, he had found me a room, so we went to this hotel which was the first one i went to and it now had rooms, strangley!!! They said it would be 2600rps, expensive! But at this point i was so tired I just wanted to go to bed. The delhi roads are crazy literally people drive in every possible space, and there use their horns constantly! im not joking, the use them to signal say hello show there annoyance and sometimes they jus hold them until someone moves out of there way. so i went to sleep with my ear plugs in as this room was on the main room, very noisy! There is also so much polution. In fact the man from the tourist office said India is good for three tings 1. Pollution 2. Population and 3. Corruption! Corruption is right, every single person wants some money of you, its ridiculous. In fact on the way to this room with 3 computers in (i dont want to say internet cafe because it doesn't warrant it!) a women stabbed me in the arm with her pen because i would give her money!!
Today i was taken to Janpath which is in central delhi, i have found a basic and maybe a bit smelly hotel room which i am paying 4000rps for 2 nights, where as the hotel last night actually charged me 3125rps they said the 525rps increase was tax!! madness. this whole place is mad! Anyway i had a walk round today to connaught place which the park in the middle is actually quite nice apart from the smog of fumes above it! ha ha.Tomorrow I am goin on a tour of delhi on a bus, which im apprehensive about but im also looking forward to seeing some of delhi ohter than the traffic and poor people! Agra on Friday morning to see the Taj Mahal. Miss you all loads and loads! Lots of Love Adam xx
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