Day 74

The train departs at 11:30. We hope it will be on time. We’ve read that the trains in India may have huge delays; We cross our fingers! We go to the train station like one hour before the departure, we were expecting a bar or a cafe there… nothing, just the platforms and a lot of people sitting or laying on the floor. We are by far the only two occidentals!

The train arrives early, so we can accommodate ourselves, we are sharing a 4 beds space just with another girl. Perfect!!! We spend all the way relaxing, reading and listening music, but we’ve failed in something … we are starving! the only thing we have are some reeeeally bad cookies. The train is comfortable so the way seems shorter.

Finally we arrive to New Delhi, and it’s hard to explain what we see. Moutains of rubbish everywhere, and people living in campsites “along” the rail tracks surrounded by garbage; cows eating trash, children almost naked playing there… I’m not even able to take photos of that. The main station is not what expected… it’s a dirty chaos! We are not having a good start for New Delhi. We manage to go out and we are surrounded by rickshaw drivers. They push you in a way that JUST when you are rude they leave you alone! The hotel is at walking distance, so we don’t need a ride.

On the way to the hotel we feel really uncomfortable, the smell is intense, there are lots of dogs with scabies everywhere, and the heat is suffocating. Finally, we find our hotel’s street. Our face is a poem; if you go to New Delhi NEVER take a hotel near the main train station. It’s a 4 lane street (they convert it in 6 lanes easily), full of noisy traffic, the buildings are old, dirty and decaying. At some point we need to cross this hell of a traffic, we manage to arrive to the central divider of the lanes. We are waiting to cross when a man decides that I’m too slow, so he just pushes me. He makes me fall into the crazy traffic!!!! Luckily nobody runs over me, but I’m scared as hell! WELCOME TO NEW DELHI!

New Delhi had been really overwhelming, we are exhausted, so we decide just to stay at the hotel for the rest of the evening.