Wheeling Around Delhi.
Location: Delhi, India
Local Time: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2005 - 7:09am
I'm still suffering the jet lag. I've been up since 1am. I must be doing something wrong.
Yes, as I was warned before I left Canada, no hot water here for morning showers. At the time I thought it would be a bit of a trial, but I did not consider that room temperature would be 29C in the middle of the night, and that a 'cold' shower in India is still a whole lot warmer than ANY lake in BC. I was probably getting too soft with the copious amounts of hot water in Canada anyway.
I went to the Nepal embassy for a visa yesterday, but they are closed for 3 days due to some holiday. (The holiday was written in Nepali, which is not the same letter system used for English.) I'll go back on Friday. I know I can get a shorter visa into Nepal at the border, but I would like a 60 day visa. Katmandu sounds like a very interesting place.
I rode around in an autorickshaw. For those who don't know, that is a three wheeled vehicle, about 6 or 7 feet from tip to tail, with seating for two back behind the driver.
Wow, that is cool. We almost got creamed by an SUV once, but other than that it was fairly uneventful. My driver was fairly conservative. He always maintained at least a 6 inch following distance, and there was never less than 2 inches between my knee (autorickshaws have no doors) and the vehicle beside me. And the way he cruised down the middle of a mostly empty street, straddling the dotted white line so he has quick and easy turning access to either side of the road, very efficient.
I visited the National Museum. Big place. I didn't get to see it all. The exhibit I really wanted to see was the manuscript exhibit, to see how the written materials were constructed, but it was closed off for restoration. I'll try to take another look in a couple of months when I pass through Delhi on the way out of the country.
After that I went to the Crafts Museum where there are exhibitions of people making the things they are going to sell. One fellow showed me how he makes stone bowls using a hand powered lathe. It was very impressive, but really, do I need to pack a couple of rocks around in my backpack for the next year? However, I did get a journal to write in. Today I'll find a glue stick for putting in all those odd bits of paper (tickets, recites, etc) and I'll be set.
Okay, time for a cuppa tea.
Local Time: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2005 - 7:09am
I'm still suffering the jet lag. I've been up since 1am. I must be doing something wrong.
Yes, as I was warned before I left Canada, no hot water here for morning showers. At the time I thought it would be a bit of a trial, but I did not consider that room temperature would be 29C in the middle of the night, and that a 'cold' shower in India is still a whole lot warmer than ANY lake in BC. I was probably getting too soft with the copious amounts of hot water in Canada anyway.
I went to the Nepal embassy for a visa yesterday, but they are closed for 3 days due to some holiday. (The holiday was written in Nepali, which is not the same letter system used for English.) I'll go back on Friday. I know I can get a shorter visa into Nepal at the border, but I would like a 60 day visa. Katmandu sounds like a very interesting place.
I rode around in an autorickshaw. For those who don't know, that is a three wheeled vehicle, about 6 or 7 feet from tip to tail, with seating for two back behind the driver.
Wow, that is cool. We almost got creamed by an SUV once, but other than that it was fairly uneventful. My driver was fairly conservative. He always maintained at least a 6 inch following distance, and there was never less than 2 inches between my knee (autorickshaws have no doors) and the vehicle beside me. And the way he cruised down the middle of a mostly empty street, straddling the dotted white line so he has quick and easy turning access to either side of the road, very efficient.
I visited the National Museum. Big place. I didn't get to see it all. The exhibit I really wanted to see was the manuscript exhibit, to see how the written materials were constructed, but it was closed off for restoration. I'll try to take another look in a couple of months when I pass through Delhi on the way out of the country.
After that I went to the Crafts Museum where there are exhibitions of people making the things they are going to sell. One fellow showed me how he makes stone bowls using a hand powered lathe. It was very impressive, but really, do I need to pack a couple of rocks around in my backpack for the next year? However, I did get a journal to write in. Today I'll find a glue stick for putting in all those odd bits of paper (tickets, recites, etc) and I'll be set.
Okay, time for a cuppa tea.
posted by Jaye | 7:00 AM
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