The title of this post is the Indian Government's tourism slogan, and so far, we tend to agree: India is Incredible.
We had been told (and were anxious) that we might be met with overwhelming heat, potential tummy sickness, pushy touts and taxi drivers and challenges finding things and arranging travel when we arrived in India. Of course, we just arrived this morning but so far, things are going smoothly. Our hotel-arranged cab drive was waiting for us at 5 a.m. when our plane got in and took us straight to our hotel which we would have never found ourselves as it is down windy roads through a bazaar in Central Delhi. The hotel air-conditioning works well and we took a nap after watching CNN (CNN would have been quite a luxury in Africa!) and catching up on the bad worldwide economic news. : (
The streets of Delhi were quite manageable when we went out today. We went to the pharmacy and stocked up on things we might need if we get sick, we went to the train station and bought train tickets to Agra where the Taj Mahal is for a day-trip tomorrow and for Jaipur, in Rajasthan the next day. Then, we took a bicycle rickshaw (not very far! and we paid him extra! but it was an experience) to a recommended restaurant for lunch where we did not recognize anything on the menu but were helped by a kind English-speaking Indian woman at the table next to us. Aftewards, we took an auto rickshaw to Hanuman's tomb, which is a set of buildings that looks like the Taj Mahal a bit, on beautiful grounds, dating back to the mid 16th century. We walked around there as the sun was getting low in the sky- it was magical! Now we are exhausted and going to bed!
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