greetings from india

hello home,

finally i got access to my blog. the problem last time was, that i had to use the hotels general managers pc and he doesnt seem to be allowed to blog from there ;)

as written below, we started our trip on saturday with a nice night in a real bavarian style, little hotel (were our car is supposed to still be parking), from which we departed in the morning direclty to the airport. flights were calm and during the 7,5 hours from zurich to delhi we had enough time to completely explore the a320's entertainment system. at 035 and on time we touched down in delhi, got our lagguage and arrived at the quite impressive and noble hotel round 230 in the morning.
after a short breakfast in the morning we started our full day delhi tour at 1000 with definitely too less sleep. we already met our driver for the next days on our way from the airport, and now we got to know our delhi guide. very nice guy, and he didnt just know austria, no, he has been vienna, linz salzburg and for 2 months attended the tourim school in innsbruck (he got invited bu a zillertaler whom he guided trough himalaya). during that day we saw lots of delhi, i guess all important sites and also got to know real traffic with the 2million vehicles from more than 16million ppl living there. very noise, no rules.... and in the beginning we were thinking bout renting a car in india hahahaha no way, we wouldnt have survived even an hour here!
but what also cant be overseen here is the poor ppl. many of them live directly next to the street in just a tent or a plastics foil tagged to a tree and a wall. its really really bad!
at the end of the tour we had our first real indian dinner, very nice and not relly hot and spicy yet.

next day, again quite early in the morning we departed to jaipur. for the distance of just 270km we needed 5,5hrs; but if u ever saq the indian highways u might know why it took so long. also no rules, chaos and any kind of vehicle on that streets: trucks, cars, bikes, bycicles, camels, elephants, horses, tucktucks.... and sometimes a herd of cows or sheeps just cross the "highway" or a cow just sleeps in the middle of the road... who cares ;)

but our driver is used to that so we made it to jaipur and our next top class hotel. the rest of the day was pool time, altough its not that warm around here. during the day in the sun its quite warm, but right after dawn temprature drops i gues to around 12C, so no shorts in the evening.
that evening i was more brave and tried a dish, the waiter warned me from beeing too spicy for a european... ha! in the end it was really unhot, maybe they were afraid of killing me and left the spice out ;)

next day was jaipur sightseeing with a new guide, we also did some elephant riding there. we aso made a walk through a part of the town with our guide and its really really busy there. as we are already used to that kind of towns from thailand, we handled it quite ok. again it was a long day and in the evening our driver picked us up again and we went for another real indian dinner. very nice again, more spicy and hot, but still no danger *g*

ok... time is running out.. so ill speed up (and next time, our non german speaking friends may please excuse this, i think i am going to write in german - its still a bit faster for me)

from jaipur we continued to agra next day, visiting some sights on route and, in the afternoon, went to see taj mahal.... its just breathtaking beautiful!
in the evening this time only eva had a real indian dinner and i just had some plain rice trying to convince my stomach to calm down again :(
today we did our sightseeing in agra with the fort and the baby taj and some other stuff again with a quite nice guide and also a german speaking one.

tomorrow we will continue by train to jhansi and change to car again there to reach our nex goal, khajuraho. after 2 nights there we will fly to varanasi, get the ganges early morning experince and fly to mumbai afterwards. from there we will continue to male via colombo, but just with a few hours stop there.

so thats it for this time, greetings to home and all of ya, i might write again soon, if i find another blog-able internet connectivity here.

cheers, greetings,
eva & /thomas

preperations in progress

ok, so lets restart that blog. this time chances are high to be a bit more active in here, because from today on this blog will become our vacation-blog for our trip to india and the maledives - yep, sound great huh?

at the moment looking out of the window i nearly dont see anything except of fog... so to be honest, its time to get away :)

we will be going to munich at the late afternoon, do a late checkin at the aiport and checkin at the hotel we are going to stay until boarding the flight tomorrow at 0930 heading to zürich and further on to delhi, where we are expected to touch down at 0035.
its planned to get picked up by our personal travelguide (and rentcar driver) from the airport and checkin to the hotel "the claridges" (looks great!) for 2 nights before continuing to jaipur.

we might get some indernet there so ill stop now and get back to my bag.

see u soon (we will be returning on 12th of december), and maybe read earlier :)

greetings
eva & /t