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North India and Nepal - 04 Six week trip to northern India and Nepal If you wanna go directly to some spesific city, click dots on the map...and click small pics to get bigger pics... | |||
Delhi & Jaipur 21.1 - 26.1.2004
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Day 1: Helsinki - Moscow - Delhi It was -20 degrees in Helsinki when I headed to the airport, and I was freezin, cause I already had summer clothes on! Flight was smooth and since I knew I would arrive in Delhi in a middle of the night, I had arranged airport pickup. Bit more expensive, but worth it. I was way too tired to fight with those greedy cabdrivers which are notorious for overcharging dumb tourists like me. My hotelroom didn`t look quite like the one I saw on the internet, when I made my reserevation. Well, at least it had a bed... Day 2: Delhi
People always say you have a culture shock when arriving in India, but I don`t know if I had one? My hotel was located in main bazaar, which is a local backpacker ghetto so there was plenty of western travellers around, maybe that smooth over things for me? Spend my day in Conaught Place and New Delhi just checking the wibes. Those: Sir, hello sir, youcomelook, sir! pleads were amusing for a first couple hunred times, after that, well... not so amusing Day 3: Delhi
Bought myself a trainticket to Jaipur before heading to Old Delhi. My plan was to visit red fort, but it was closed because of a India`s independence day was coming up in few days? Plan B was to visit Indias biggest Mosque, but it was prayer time and non-belivers like me were not allowed inside the mosque. Later in a evening I ended up in a street which seemed to be center of a motorcycle bisnes in Delhi, almost bought myself a Royal Enfield! Day 4: Delhi - Jaipur
My train to Jaipur left 5AM, which was a bit too early for my taste, but I managed to woke up and found a riksha to take me to the trainstation. 300 km and 8 hours: not exactly the fastest train a world. Arrived in Jaipur in a afternoon and headed to my hostel. Didn`t feel too good and I slept couple of hours. Four days it took, but enter tourist diarrhea, I knew I shouldn`t eat that masala dosa! Day 5: Jaipur
Went back to the trainstation to buy a ticket to Ajmer, but I was told that I can get it in a day I was leaving. Bought a ticket from Ajmer to Udaipur instead. Pink city is the number one sight in Jaipur, so I crabbed a riksha and headed there. Street signs were non-existent and my map was missing half the streets, so it took awhile before I found maharadzas palace, which I was looking. Palace itself was a bit of disappointment. Day 6: Jaipur
I was feeling a little better, so I ordered breakfast while watching independence day parade from TV. For such a poor country, India seem to have invested lot of money in weapons? I was heading to Amber fort when my riksha driver told me it was closed because of the independence day. So I just walked around pink city all day. I finally found bar which had beer, except today, because of... you guessed it: independence day! It`s dry day in the state of Rajasthan. |
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Main bazaar | ||||
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Delhi streetlife | ||||
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Cow with class | ||||
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Snakecharmer | ||||
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Chilisale in pink city | ||||
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Pink city | ||||
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