Delhi

We arrived in Delhi late on wednesday night, everything seemed so calm inside the airport...
we bought our suggested prepaid taxi ticket from the counter (to make sure you don't get ripped off) and already we had a 'lovely' man helping us find the way to the taxis....
outside the door of the airport were a sea of people pushing, shouting...complete chaos
finally found the right cab and the driver tried straight away to get ahold of the taxi ticket(without it he won;t get paid so you have to make sure you hold on to it until you are at your hotel)
thursday morning we found a rickshaw driver to take us to the ghandi museum...but he decided we needed to go to the 'government tourist office' for more information...not on our itinerary but we ended up there...needless to say it wasn't anything to do with free information, but a scam for him to make commisision, so we got rid of him and found another taxi to get us there on a meter(a rare thing here, apparently they are almost all broken...)
the muesum was great, lots of information on Mahatma Ghandi and his life, work, teachings and assassination (he was killed at the museum _then Birla house)
then we ventured into the centre of the city where we quickly found we had lots of friends trying to help us find a good place to eat, of a good place to shop haha.
for lunch i think we had mutton kebabs, they weren't your average kebab though, not even like euro ones. they are like fried flat bread, fried egg and marinate mutton...i must admit they were fantastic! who's have thought mutton would taste so good!!
we went to the state emporiums and bought some pashminas...mine has turned my neck blue so i looked like part smurf, so i have given it a few rinses to try make it wearable...

friday we had a guided tour of the morning delhi, saw amazing flower markets, the sikh temple (a religion suprisingly saimilar to the basic priniples of christianity...minus the jesus bit of course.) saw hindi temples and an anglican church (which was full of people)
we then went to the indira Ghandi museum...a president of india (married to ghandi's adopted son)...very interesting again, she too was assassinated, as was her son. she is considered the 'mother of India' apparently- thats purely based on a book i saw in a shop.
In the afternoon we met our tour group of 11 people and out guide, anen?(i can't spell it but that seems close)
Today (2nd Jan)
Went to the bride and groom market...tash would be extremely excited with all the trinket stuff you can buy for making dresses, ribbon, beaded ribbon, sari material. extremely cheap too.e carried on to the spice market...putting my spice box to shame james, if only i could bring some home to add to it!
then had lunch and looked at the markets...where everyone is interested in you and your money

thats was a rather short version of the last three days, i am in the hotel lobby and have some people reading over my shoulder.
tomorrow we head to Agra, to see among other things, the Taj Mahal!

Namaste
Em