Our World Journey

India

This blog describes our 27 days of travel through India (13 October 2006 - 15 October 2006 & 23 November 2006 - 16 December 2006). We loved India. We did Delhi and Mumbai, caught some trains, ate LOTS of Indian food and toured the mystifying Rajastan. We even got to see a tiger in the wild!

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Bikaner to Delhi

Bikaner is a town halfway on our route back to Delhi. We arrived in the afternoon. There is not much to say about this town except that a bit of a way out of it there is a bizarre rat temple where thousands of rats reside in their place of worship. We unfortunately did not make it that far as our time on Bikaner was limited to just a stopover. We did, however, venture out onto the streets to go try out some of the goodies in one of the typical Indian sweet shops. The shop owner gladly made us taste a range of his produce. The Indian idea of sweet things is so different to ours so it was quite an experience to try it out.

The next morning we hit the road again. There was lots distance to cover and quite a bit of traffic to negotiate as we approached Delhi (the place we affectionately call the armpit of the universe). Our journey took us 11 hours. We were thrilled to be back though. We stayed in the same hotel we had stayed in almost 2 months earlier! The hotel had been revamped and was quite a bit fancier than we remembered. We indulged in our favourite indian food and did some last minute shopping before heading off to the airport for our cheap flight to Mumbai...

posted by Johan & Janine at 4:15 AM   

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  • The Golden City - Jaisalmer
  • Khuri camels
  • The Blue City - Jodhpur
  • The Venice of the East - Udaipur
  • Pushkar
  • The Pink City - Jaipur
  • Rajasthan
  • Taj Mahal
  • Crouching TIGER, happy human!
  • Holy crap!