Well I got picked up yesterday morning and to my surprise the minibus was a small car and I was the only tour member. Oddness. The guide (Rana) said he was bringing his nephew (Raju) along to help out and to teach him too drive out of Delhi.
What I did find weird is when we stopped for lunch I was ushered into a restaurant and they went to a drivers lounge. So I was all on my own.
The first place we visited was the amber fort which is probably the most amazing thing I’ve seen for some time (google it). Again it was a there’s the entrance off you go thing, so not much guiding.
We stopped at a few other places but by 5 I was feeling really ill so we went to our guest house, which was full. Eventually we got to an expensive dump that had room for us. Just after I had a second viewing of the small amount of lunch I’d managed. Diner was arranged in the guest house then after a long wait canceled for reasons I have yet to understand so I managed to get some nibbles as I couldn’t face the outside world.
After a sleepless sickly night with dogs fighting in the tire yard outside my window. I managed to sleep in the morning and in the afternoon I visited the maharaja’s palace and the observatory which has all manner of crazy structures to measure astronomical things like a 50 meter sundial that is accurate to 2 seconds. Then we moved to a better guest house (but its still a bit of a dump) and finally I looked around a museum called the Albert hall.
This evening Rana knew of this restaurant that had traditional music and dance, I was a little concerned as I’m still off my food but it seemed like they were both looking forward to it so I went along. It was really nice music and dancing on the roof of a tower block but, as is par for the course now, they buggered off and left me on a table on my own not able to eat more than 5 mouthfuls of Sag Paneer. Quite an embarrassing situation but it would have been lovely in different circumstances. But i’m now beginning to feel a bit lonely tbh. I’ve not spoken to another traveler for day’s now so I’m going a bit crazy. And my guides don’t seem interested in anything much other than dropping me off places
Tommorow we’re off to Jodphur and I think I’m going to insist on staying in a guest house that’s in the lonely planet and has a restaurant so I won’t be the only non Indian and can get food no hassle when I feel I can manage it.
Will let you know what happens.
-Dan
View from the Amber Fort
Red & White Carrots:
View from the Amber Fort
Red & White Carrots:
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