The city of differences

First of all: we are so sorry for the exceptionally bad update here lately. We have been getting feedback from a couple of you saying that you just cant go on as normal without your daily piece of us, but we have been to busy doing this...

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So! To celebrate out last day in New Delhi we agreed on starting a new tradition.

We have the chance to cover as many as 9 locations during these 4 months, and after our first Asian Hard Rock experience (ooh that didnt sound good..) we are sure we will make them all!

Bye bye germs!

(yes, everyone entering had to be sanitized! thats what you call service)

After the big tragedy when we found out that people don't eat meat in India (even not in McDonalds!!) we couldn't believe our eyes when we found "pepper fillet steak" on the menu!

Once again Lina is quite happy with her investment of the day!

"Im sure that this wallet never will be stolen, who in its right mind would even bother?"

True to another newfound tradition we had to do one last Tuk Tuk ride. We also played the Indian national game:

How many people can you fit in/on this vehicle?

Bye bye Ritesh and Lele!

Off to the train station, and this did not seem to be our lucky day!

No one told us about monsoon season in Delhi!

When we finally got inside things started to look a bit better!

Night trains does not get enough credit! We even got dinner!

Within the next 3 hours we forcefully got 3 more meals put in our bed. No option saying no. When the lunch-, dinner-, soup- or supper trays are coming, you better wake up and EAT!

During the night (with no sleep for Lina, and to much sleep for Ranveig) New Delhi faded into a pleasant memory. A city with many first experiences for us, a city where you can find the most advanced shopping malls on one side of the road and a village made out of cardboard and garbage bags on the other. A city where getting food for the family can be the one and only activity of the day or where food is something you get after screaming through the door to one of your 3 servants (yes, we have seen that to). Definitely a place worth experiencing!

Awesomeness

Lina & Ranveig

Not connected!

Hello blog followers!
Our blog will be updated soon, we have had some fun but hectic days! And no internet connection.
See you soon!

"You want photograph? Nooo problem!"

After 5 straight days squeezing inbetween the 20 million people living in New Delhi, we were more that ready to explore another side of India; the famous city of Agra. We were also looking forward to our first trainride in Asia. The mission of actually getting a ticked had left us with the impression that this was going to be anything but easy, and as expected it was tension in the air when the only white girls in Delhi stepped down to platform 5.

The stories about indias train system are endless, and to test how true they are, we had tickets for the lowest class we dared (witch means lowest class with air-condition, anything else would literally have killed us) And guess what? The unbelievable stories about overfilled trains?

They are all true

This is actually the top bed of 3 levels. Awesome.

Unfortunately indian trains are not equipped with speaker systems, so figuring out when to get off was rather hard, We ended up leaving our undersized bed and sat down in an open exit door instead. At one station (nope, we had still no idea where we were and if this was the right one) we started talking to a TukTuk driver. He offered to take us to Taj Mahal for 50 rupees (6kr) and we figured it was worth a shot.

It turned out to be a good decision.

He even stopped to buy umbrellas for us when it started to rain.

And we really needed umbrellas…..

Finally we got there.

The sight was more amazing than words can describe

Apparently we were also pretty amazing, and once again we had to stop for long photosessions. Parents were bringing their children over and wanted us to kiss them, like some sort of blessing ceremony. . Weird..

The strangest thing about this place is that everything revolves around money. There is always some kind of benefit after every "good" deed. After getting tricked in to a couple of stores by our guide we were exhausted, and finally found one of our safespots : Coffee shop!

"It is not always fun to be famous!"

At the trainstation we made some more friends. Not everyone thought is was a good idea that we were playing cards with the homeless children, but it looked like it made their day, and it certainly made ours!

Photos of the day:

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." ~Henry Boye

Awesomeness

Runaway&Leena

Old Delhi through one eye

Question! Can you imagine waking up after an amazing night with sweet dreams. " today is gonna be a good day" you think, and you slowly turn around to wake up your best friend

KABOOOM!

Thats right. kind of sets a stop to your beautiful morning hey?

Problem solved! We fix everything

Today was our first day out in Delhi without our self designated guide, that had to go back to his real work. (thank you so much for sticking with us this long Ritesh!) We were very exited and ready for the challenges Delhi had to offer.

We headed for Old Delhi to see Indias biggest mosque. To get there we had to pass a MASSIVE market

After three hundred offers on shoes, belts, spices, jewelry, watches, budder statues, clothes, naan bread, carpets and anything else you can possible imagine ("special price for you"), we finally reached Jama Masjid.

Not everyone was happy with Lina`s outfit for the day. Massive fail!

Very quickly we decided to evacuate before we got arrested for breaking some kind of clothing rule, and took our shot through a second market. Considering the stares we got and the beggers around, we took the easy way out and jumped in a Ricksaw. BIG success! The driver offered to take us on a tour around Old Delhi, but the poor guy did not know what he was getting himself into.

Also, we are not really the same size as the locals...

After around 1 hour, the driver said he needed a break, and wanted us to come with him to his "break room". We knew we were getting conned, but so what? Thats what we hoped for!

We came down to the biggest, most amazing store we have seen so far. The saleswoman was running around showing us all different kinds of beautiful indian clothing. We were the only ones there and we were allowed to choose anything we wanted and try it all on. We got free food and drinks and had a blast!

As expected, everything was very (!) overprised, but we both feel that you should pay for what you get, and the service we got here was worth a million! Don't underestimate so called "cons", they might just turn out to be worth it!

Our journey with the rickshaw driver ended then in Raj Gaht, the memorial park made for Mahatma Gandhi.

Again, we made some local friends

You think you can pose?

Finally back home! The long day sitting in the back of open TukTuks and Ricksaws didn't improve Ranveigs infected eye.

Solution?

Hopefully Lina wont get the same shock waking up tomorrow!

Photos of the day:

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes" - Mahatma Gandhi

Awesomeness

Ranveif&Lino

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