Brand New Buzz

I had my first meal in days, I was afraid of getting Delhi Belly, a fear that never came to fruition during my whole stay here in Delhi. Anyway, apologies for the lack of communication over the Internet. I’ve been busy with my travel companions Delhi Belly, he was occupying the toilets where ever we went. Poor guy.

Well, despite having to find a toilet everywhere we went, we managed to get out of one of the four star hotels in Delhi and go out and about in Delhi town. We took a half day tour with a hired driver who took us all around the old and new Delhi. The first place he took us too was the Muslim mosque located in old Delhi. I was handed a colorful gown that made me look like I was from the Delhi circus. We had to take off our shoe to enter the mosque and leave them outside. I really didn’t want to do that, but there was a shoe minder who would look after our shoes. My male companion gave him a tip to make sure no one walked off with our very expensive shoes, which, by the way, looked very out of place amongst the old worn, dusty sandals.

Once we were inside, we saw that big room where the Muslims gather and practice their praying. That’s about all there was to see inside besides watching some foreigners being yelled at for trying to smoke right in the middle of the mosque! We left only after about 15 minutes, really, there was nothing to see here, but I did like my new colorful frock. We collected our shoes and headed back to our hired tour guide. We told him we’d like to see something more interesting that that old mosque, so he took us to the Red Fort. We stayed outside, because we thought it’d be too hot inside, plus, the queue to get inside was long, very long. So, we just took some photos all the while being bombarded by all the souvenir hawkers wanting us to buy what ever they were selling. We ended up only buying postcards, it was really too hot to do much more, so we left.

The heat was getting to us, so we had our tour guide take us back to our hotel, and we told him to pick us back up tomorrow at the same time he did today, but we told him to show us not the touristy parts, but the local life. We wanted to experience the actual India. He smiled and was very happy to hear our request.

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