Craziness!
After only arriving this morning here in New Delhi I am already overwhelmed and exhausted by the pure insanity of this place. I was lucky enough to have Chris and Charisse waiting for me at the airport with a taxi driver garaunteed to bring us to the correct place after they spent hours the night before being drug all around the city by the unavoidable scam artist.
The entire city is basically wall to wall traffic between the insane amount of people and the vehicles, cows, and dogs in between. It was our plan to see the Red Fort and visit a spice market today but wasnt able to do any. After wandering around thinking were in the right area numerous times only to find out that we are nowhere close, and that the locals have as much of a clue as to where we are as we do, we dicided to just not have a plan and keep walking through the hundreds of shops and markets all over the city. We were told to expect the chaos of the city but nothing could have prepared me for what it is truely like.
Besides the dozens of scam artist trying to trick tourist, the people are very friendly. You get pleny of people just wanting to shake your hand, tons of smiles that grow twice as big when you smile back, and children and adults alike begging you to take their photos! The unfortunate thing is that they are almost too helpful to where you ask for directions and even if they have no idea where you want to go they will happily point you in some direction knowing that they helped you in some way, even if its the wrong way.
Well early tomorow we leave Delhi as we are eager to get out of the big city and we head to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal! I'm not much of a writer and apparently my brother is some sort of goddamn journalist so if you wanna read and see more with what were up to over here you can check out http://journals.worldnomads.com/cbyanasak
