A day on the Delhi Metro

After the street just about being blown up lastnight by every sort of firecracker imaginable, the noise finally died down at about 2am this morning.  Even with earplugs in the noise was incredible.  Once the firecrackers stopped we managed to get a little sleep in between then and around 7am.  We didn’t have to meet with the group until 11am. So we slowly started to get up, and pack up and organise our stuff for the overnight train ride this evening.

Once we were packed and downstairs to meet up with the group, we were off to the local metro station to learn all about the Delhi metro.  We rode this into the city centre and went for a small walk and tried a very sweet and sickly but lovely local dessert from a shop that has been around since 1885 and still run by the same family.  I am not sure what exactly it was but it was sweet, deep fried goodness.  After this is was back on the train to Connaught Place to have a look around, change some money and grab some lunch as well as something for snacks or dinner on the train tonight.  We finally had our first Indian meal in India.  It was nothing fancy just some garlic naan, Palak Paneer (spinach with cottage cheese) and some Daal.

After lunch we went for another look around Connaught Place and then we decided to head back to the hotel to get our gear ready for the train. Once again it was back to the metro station (this time without the help of our guide who had left earlier and already returned to the hotel).  We did very well, only 10 Rupees per person (approx. 18c) and much faster than the tuk tuk from yesterday.  We even got on the right train going in the right direction and got off at the correct stop.  This travel thing and language barrier is no worries, haha!

Next time you hear from us we will have had our first overnight train ride and hopefully come out the other side relatively unscathed.

Much love

Toot and Gordo Xx.