INDIA!!!!!! intense....

So after 2 days and 3 nights in Singapore I left for India.
Singapore was incredible- definately a place I shall have to move to some day, at leaast for a year or so... everyone was lovely, polite, well dressed, the streets were clean, pretty, the sun was shining, the exotic birds singing, the ripe sweet fruits over-flowing from the stands, the fusion of numerous asian cultures producing mind-blowing cuisine options...heaven :)

And then 2 hours on the plane to Bangkok, 3 hours at the airport, then 4 hours on another plane and voila: INDIA!!!!!

New Delhi- pretty much the above just the exact opposite :P haha...nah the people are lovely here too, but otherwise yeah, the opposite...

Got picked up by a little angry man, who had been waiting for an hour, and grudgingly drove me to my hotel at 1am...
i was soooo tired that the lack of air-conditioning, loud noises from the outside street, or even strange noises from the next room could not stop me from falling asleep immediately!!!
I woke up this morning ready to explore, you know really be open-minded, embrace the new beautiful colorful indian culture and just LIVE it.... it started out well, colors, everywhere, hassling from every single male as expected, flavorful smells wafting across the street, many many bikes, cars, motorcycles everywhere...just imagine slumdog millionaire and me standing right in the middle of it all. :)
but then it went down hill just a tiny bit when 2 ATMs wouldn't give me money ( dont worry the 3rd one did), then I had to check-out, hassle the price down by alot, arrange a bus to rishikesh finally got one for tonight), then arrange a Delhi tour by car and that is when it kind of really went wrong..it was beautiful at first, all the temples and buildings and general hectiness of delhi life BUT then we stopped at the Red Fort, I got out of the car as usual to explore the sight and meet him back at the car in approx. 30min, but by the time I got back, the taxi driver was nowhere to be seen AND I discovered that my wallet was gone- maybe slipped out in the taxi who knows but it was gone and so was the taxi driver :( that left me in the middle of wild delhi on my own without transport...oh well, I send the taxi driver love, thanking him for the lesson he taught me, hoping he learns to live a better life ( after all there were only about 800 or 900 rupies in there, luckily i had put all the 10 000 rupies and my card i had withdrawn in another pouch in my bag) and started making my way back...I did and everything was fine.. Now i am happily sipping on a lassi ( delicious, praying not to get a delhi tummy in those 24hrs I have here before I depart :P) in a little local cafe, reading and shall be making my way to the busstop shortly..

So hello India, show me what you got and I will listen, watch, learn and love you for it!!!
Dhanyavad
Shukrya xxx