Back in Bombay

Hello to all my readers! I am now back in Mumbai and have found a place with internet acces. Yesterday evening I arrived by plane from Delhi. Tommorow night I will be going on to Australia, from where I hope to maintain my blog a little better.

We had a short trip through India, which was very pleasant, although I only managed to visit a few places: Amhnebad, Jodhpur and Delhi. Distances between are very big, so I flew back from Delhi, the other option was a 29hr train ride.

As you might have read before, Ahmnebad was great. From there we took another night train to visit Jodhpur: the blue city. Jodhpur is reletively small (600.000) and it's main feature is a very nice and very big palace/castle on top of the hill. In the castle we took the audiotour, which was suprisingly good, although we looked ridiculous. Pictures will follow. Due to the fact that we had a very nice hotel which served cold beers on the rooftop terrace our trip was delayed for a few days.

In Delhi we visited the red fort, which was a bit of a disappointment, although it was extremly huge. It was not near as nice a the thing in Jodhpur. The disappointment did not stop there, because all in all we did not like Delhi much. The people seemed less friendly then anywhere else we had been and the whole place was dirty a smoggy. In the evening we went to see a Bollywood movie "Sunday" with 3 very friendly girls from Austria, whom we had met on the train. The movie was very good: nice songs and dancing with colourfull shots of Delhi. All in all very nice to look at, eventhough we could not understand a word that was said. It was also very nice to have some other people to talk about things here in India.

While I am now leaving - to my regret, it would be very nice to see more of India -, Thijs and Remy are still on holiday. They are now in Chandigrath to enjoy the architecture and will probably go on to Shimla in the mountains.

Next time from Australia, bye!