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Hannah and Liv's Travel Update
We've arrived! It's brilliant, such an amazing place but we definitely are still having a culture shock! The flight was really good, very tiring because it was delayed as they de-iced the wings so we didn't leave til gone 10, so we had our food about midnight english time. It was curry! really nice actually we ate loads as we were starving! We were woken up to have breakfast about 4am english time which was naan bread with cheese and onion stuffed and some greek yoghurt with crunchy cereal and dried strawberries plus some pj smoothie, very nice!
When we arrived in India the warmth hit us, it's apparently 10 degrees according to our driver but we think it's actually more, we were both sweating bucket loads nice! We have a fan in our room though so the night will be cool. On our flight over Afghanistan this morning we'v never seen such amazing sites from a plane, it is so mountainous and they were covered with snow, it was more rocky as well with just rocks poking right through all the clouds, didn't look real!
India is the dustiest place ever, it doesn't seem to have any soil at all just sand everywhere and it's all bone dry. Our transfer was waiting for us with our sign very posh and luckily we got to change some money to rupees before we left the airport. It was 76.6 rupees to the pound which is good and the food in our hotel restaurant is as cheap as 7 rupees for a meal. We might also join a tour tomorrow evening which includes sightseeing, evening meal and transport etc for only 300 rupees (like 4 pounds sorry no pound sign on the keyboard here!). The journey from the airport to our hotel was the scariest thing! The man darted off into the distance and we had to practically run and push through people to catch him up, but he was a nice nepalese man. As we walked out the airport onto the street, there were hundreds of indian people waiting outside behind barriers obviously waiting for people to arrive which was very daunting to have them staring at you first thing. The car we went in was so old and tatty, it had no seatbelts in the back for us and the gear stick was broken! The journey was just hilarious, beeping your horn at every opportunity is normal and there are no road markings most of the time. Even when there are they take absolutely no notice it's unbelievable! they just drive where they want to and even when there's oncoming traffic and 3 lanes on each side they dart over the road. We nearly touched hundreds of cars going at speed and because most of the vehicules are small they bob in and out of each other all the time. They also have no respect for cyclists or motorcycles who are pretty much at the bottom of the tree and we kept going right up behind and beeping, they take no notice though! People just walk out into the road too, and there were loads of people pushing carts or riding in horse and carts or cattle carts, we even saw a converted tractor! There are hundreds and thousands of rickshaws everywhere too. Roundabouts were hilarious there are no rules and they must have such quick reactions compared to us! When you stop in traffic (because the roads are packed) people come along to sell stuff, and a woman obviously saw us english in the back of a car and came and stood for ages at liv's window with her baby begging scaring us half to death! The man just laughed. There is so much poverty, people all over the sides of the roads and everywhere you go it is just absolutely packed! We also saw loads of sacred cows walking wherever they wanted and a huge group of little monkeys on the side of the road being fed. There seem to be army people everywhere too. The whole city actually seems like there has been a bomb drop on it and it just has never been cleared up, there is rubbish everywhere and piles of bricks and stones wherever you look. Women, men and children sit at the sides of the road putting bricks down and there are roadworks everywhere too, and people just washing their clothes at the sides of the roads. The food stalls all have live animals around them as wel very different!
The hotel is really nice, it's literally right in the middle of a very busy area and we haven't had the courage to venture outside just yet! this internet room is free so thats good and we have a shower and tv which was showing the man u west brom game earlier! Tomorrow we might get the hotel to hire us some transport and take us to some museums, then a tour tomorrow night. Lots of love to everybody back home!
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