Our hotel recommendation for Old Delhi is one of our more interesting ones. Read on, read on. John and I had been to Thailand before, but India. India is not Thailand. Little did we know this as we drove through Delhi at 2:00 in the morning. After our ridiculously long flight (13 hours, then 7 hours) we arrived in Delhi and zipped through the quiet roads. [...]
Here is a completed mini-segment that may or may not make the final video. Its about trash. Enjoy.
Looking back on it now, even though it was only 4 days ago, it’s easy to see why we started out having a hard time. Old Delhi is a lot, A LOT, to handle. It’s loud, it’s painfully dirty, there really is shit and piss running in the streets, the people work hard and are very serious, I get stared at, punched, pushed out of the [...]
Yesterday might possibly have been one of the craziest, hardest, weirdest, greatest days of my life. Gabeer, our fixer, took us to get our tickets to the Taj Mahal. John and I are on a pretty strict budget so we couldn’t spend much on a trip. The travel agent went through our choices, starting with the most expensive first: rent a car and a driver rent [...]
We took a nap then ventured out to the market again. This gives you some idea of the chaos. It can really grate on you after awhile. I tried very hard to zen it all out and just go with it, but the honking, oh my god the honking:
Our guide led us through dark stairways FILLED with garbage, at times it looked like he was going into private residences, but eventually, we ended up way high in Old Delhi, this is some great video of what it looks like here and maybe there’s a puppy or two:
