Sunday, May 10, 2009

Saturday, 3/28/09 Noida, India

We left work about 1am which still gave me 9 hours if you count the 2 I did at the hotel.
Manoj and Ranveer took us to old Delhi. This was advised against by Gogan, their director. We agreed and went anyways, but only because Manoj was raised in the area and was familiar. It was pretty neat. He said it was the best time to come because all other times, it was very crowded and would be a long wait at the restaurant.
It was very greasy food. Spicy. Bread was soft. We had some other bread that was like a really thin flour tortilla, but tough and chewy like nan bread. We closed the restaurant around 3am and went back to the hotel.
I called home before Ranveer, Manoj and taxi driver came to pick us up to go to Jaipur.

On the way to Jaipur, I slept for a little while in the car. The trip is much the same as the trip to the Taj, but predominantly, taxis here are long jeeps that look like military jeeps.
And, again, there are many trucks to dodge in traffic. We have also seen a few camel carts. The landscape here is a bit different because there are abrupt hills in the middle of nowhere.
Manoj and Ranveer said people here don't like to keep cars more than 90-100 kilometers because they lose value after that.
Note: truck names seen on the road: Swaraj Mazda; Eicher; Ashor Leyland; Tata; Mahindra Jeep.

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