Category: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka 2003

Well thats it, we are on the road. After spending a few days in Delhi, we took the road to visit the country, as we slowly head towards Nepal.

Our first stop was in Agra, where you can find the famous Taj Mahal, absolutely beautiful ! all the white marble stones, the incrusted semi precious stones in the wall, and some really nice looking gardens. Hotel was quite nice and fairly peaceful. We managed to get a single room for the 4 of us. The hotel boss has a pretty good french, something quite rare over here.

We then went to Gwalior, very busy place, awful hotel, on the main road, noisy as hell, full of insects (all those crawling thingys), we had to split up in 2 rooms, but noone managed to get much sleep with all the noise in the streets all night long, and all that creeping going around us! However some very nice ruins of an old palace, with a great view of the area.

Next stop was in Orchha, we hadn’t planned to stop there in the first place, but travelling takes so much time, you just need to stop and rest a bit. We were all very surprised however, tiny placem probably just a couple hundred of people in the area. So peaceful, not a single noise, we all enjoyed the night we spent there. There is a huge temple there, we had a nice walk in there, had fun with the monkeys and the birds and huge wasps occupying the place. We saw an amazing sunset from the top of the palace ruins.

We left early in the morning for Khajuraho (Kama Sutra), but this is for next time …

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Well, here we are on the road. We finally managed leaving France an hour later than planned, but all went well.
Planes were full all the way, but we survived.
We met another french guy when arriving at the airport in Delhi so we have been 4 since. We found a nice hotel where we have a relatively nice room for the area.

We have been walking, or at least trying tom as the streets (if we can call them streets, rather some kind of old durty roads) in Old Delhi, probably the hardest thing to start with apparently, thousands of people hanging around, selling everything you could think of, including some nice piece of silks, and hundreds of reekshaw (spelling?) trying to take you everywhere you are trying to avoid. It can get pretty irritating in the end, as they spend all the time using their hooters to call you or tell you to move out of the way, so you keep looking around you, trying to avoid the crowd of people and ‘taxis’ that would probably run over you if you didn’t move out in time.
You can also see loads of cows just hanging around in the streets, quite interesting :)
We had a good walk however, and visited a nice sikh temple.

Today was a calm day, woke up quite late, done some little shopping, for clothes and stuff, and we have been talking about what we would like to go to next. We will be heading east a bit for a few days before going up towards Nepal.
We will be visiting the southern part of Dehli tomorrow, known as New Delhi, a bit more modern apparently.
It is really another world than the one we are used to, but its really full of nice perfumes and colors.
So we are going to be 4, for another week, then that french guy we’ve met will leave us and continue his trip his own way, as he is staying in India for only 2 months, and hadn’t planned on visiting Nepal or Srilanka.

It wasnt very easy to find a computer where i could plug in the cameras we have, so not sure how often i’ll be updating this, or maybe less photos, as the connection isn’t that fast either.

Well time to go get some food, take care folks :)

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