3 days in goa, intensively doing nothing apart from reading, sunbathing whenever possible (unfortunately this was only the case for 3 hrs today, and ca. 2hrs on the first day), eating a lot and really good things, and simply enjoying the view from our favorite restaurant at the seaside - the place has a terrace about 20 meters above the sea with a fascinating view.
Oh, and we can even hear the sea from our room....
Today we've been sunbathing, sipping coffees at the poolside, sleeping and just diving into this goan off-season life - only a few tourists, everyone knows everyone, you can just chat with anyone you meet and buy all sort of things (from jewellery to clothing to drugs) for a really resonable price. The last one we didn't try, but we already have a bunch-discount on beer in our favorite restaurant - instead of 35 rs/bottle we've been paying 25 the last 3 times - that already adds up to quite something after the 10th beer :)
we have the number and email address of our place, so if anyone wants to come here in the off-season, it is really-really recommended. just sometimes it's raining :(((
csütörtök, augusztus 30, 2007
kedd, augusztus 28, 2007
Aurangabad-Bijapur-Badami-Goa
Well, well, long ago not written anything, just somehow the internet was not crossing our way.... Or not in the required bandwidth. But here we are again.
Aurangabad was fine, just our train was a good 4 hours delayed so we could only visit Ellora.
Aurangabad-Ellora
Ellora is an old city with 34 cave-temples, something similar like Petra. There are 3 types of caves here, buddhist, jainist and something else as well :) (khm, i don't have my guidebook here with me). The caves were quite different, some of them really simple, and then there was a huge magical one, a one-piece structure. To make this temple, they had to remove the stones from around a huge rock, and later they carved the rock into this:
It was also fun that we've met a hungarian university professor here, and had a little chat... Yes, hungarians are everywhere :)))
Bijapur
After Ellora we were boarding the train again to get to Bijapur. This was quite tricky, as we had a ticket from Aurangabad to Solapur, but from there i had no clue how we'll proceed, but luckily just as we got from the trinstation to the bus station, there was a bus just leaving to Bijapur :)
Bijapur is said to be the Agra of the south, but as we've seen the real agra, we only made a 3hrs sightseeing trip before proeeding to Badami.
Here are the pictures of the city. What's interesting in Bijapur is that there's the so-called Golgumbaz, which has the second largest kupola (Kuppel) in the world.
And what's most beautiful is the Ibrahim Jauza:
Badami-Aihole -Pattadakal:
Arriving to Badami was really a relief. Finally a laid-back area, peaceful, with a beautiful sunset, and not even a single taxi-driver was coming to ask us where we wanted to go. We then asked for a roundtrip in Pattadakal and Aihole, and got a really cheap offer - actually so cheap, that i didn;t even want to try to deal down the price anymore.
Pattadakal and Aihole were architectural experimental sites for some kings, and they've built about 50 temples in the two villages. Some of the temples now are used as houses or cow-stalls, it's really weird to see all those amazing temple-ruins in the middle of those really poor villages....
The tour from Badami to Goa was a bit more interesting. Because we didn't have the ticket for the night-train to Goa. And in Bijapur we've already missed one train - it was leaving 30 minutes before schedule, at least according to the info i got from the net. So we wanted to make it sure, so we went to the trainstation in Badami to ask about the train. There were about 6 people suddenly gathering on the station (imagine a really small trainstaion at a tiny little village), to help us. We told them that we want to get to Goa from Hubli, and we just want to check if a specific train really exists, and what time it leaves. I even had the train number and name with me. First they started to explain us how we can get from Badami to Hubli. After telling them ca. 5 times that we're taking a train to Hubli, they told us about an afternoon train to Goa. OK, that's fine, jsut we want to ask about the night train. No, there is no night train. Then i told them again that i've seen in on the net... Well, then there is that night train. Somehow i got the idea that they believed that if that girl has a paper, and there is some info WRITTEN down on it, then it must be true. So even if they don't know anything about the train, if i can show them my paper with the data, then the train must also exist.....
After this small intermezzo we finally really got to Hubli (yes, madam, there are busses every 30 mins.... somehow we had to wait 50 min until there was one...). In Hubli we had to get from the bus station to the railway station. Seems like i'm pretty much getting used to dealing down the price, as i had not even the slightest idea how far the bus stand is from the railway station, but since the taxi-driver said 25 rupees, i told him 20, and he took us :))))
On the trainstation we were asking about the train: yes, it does exist. And are there also available seats? (Quite important on a night-train...) Well, they don't know, we shall ask the main conductor. We went to him, first he said that we should only buy a "general ticket", get on the train, and then the conductor on the train will give us seats. OK, just what if he can't? Especially that it turned out that only 3 coaches of the whole train are going to Vasco, the rest is going somewhere else, so there is not too much space anyway.... After asking again and again, finally the conductor on the trainstation told us to buy the ticket, and then "he'll make the reservation". And miracle, he could check on the places, and could tell us already where our berths will be. The price for the reservation is 160rs for 2 people, but "give me 200. No, 250". At this point my new negotiation-skills were activated again, so i was actually reducing the amount of bribe to 220 :))) Am i great?
So now we're in goa, we've taken out a nice room 5 min walk from the sea, and although there was not really full sunshine today, we both have a nice color, and will continue to work on it (and our bellies) in the coming 2 days.
But now i have to go to sit next to the swimming pool with my book, and order a beer :)
Aurangabad was fine, just our train was a good 4 hours delayed so we could only visit Ellora.
Aurangabad-Ellora
Ellora is an old city with 34 cave-temples, something similar like Petra. There are 3 types of caves here, buddhist, jainist and something else as well :) (khm, i don't have my guidebook here with me). The caves were quite different, some of them really simple, and then there was a huge magical one, a one-piece structure. To make this temple, they had to remove the stones from around a huge rock, and later they carved the rock into this:
It was also fun that we've met a hungarian university professor here, and had a little chat... Yes, hungarians are everywhere :)))
Bijapur
After Ellora we were boarding the train again to get to Bijapur. This was quite tricky, as we had a ticket from Aurangabad to Solapur, but from there i had no clue how we'll proceed, but luckily just as we got from the trinstation to the bus station, there was a bus just leaving to Bijapur :)
Bijapur is said to be the Agra of the south, but as we've seen the real agra, we only made a 3hrs sightseeing trip before proeeding to Badami.
Here are the pictures of the city. What's interesting in Bijapur is that there's the so-called Golgumbaz, which has the second largest kupola (Kuppel) in the world.
And what's most beautiful is the Ibrahim Jauza:
Badami-Aihole -Pattadakal:
Arriving to Badami was really a relief. Finally a laid-back area, peaceful, with a beautiful sunset, and not even a single taxi-driver was coming to ask us where we wanted to go. We then asked for a roundtrip in Pattadakal and Aihole, and got a really cheap offer - actually so cheap, that i didn;t even want to try to deal down the price anymore.
Pattadakal and Aihole were architectural experimental sites for some kings, and they've built about 50 temples in the two villages. Some of the temples now are used as houses or cow-stalls, it's really weird to see all those amazing temple-ruins in the middle of those really poor villages....
The tour from Badami to Goa was a bit more interesting. Because we didn't have the ticket for the night-train to Goa. And in Bijapur we've already missed one train - it was leaving 30 minutes before schedule, at least according to the info i got from the net. So we wanted to make it sure, so we went to the trainstation in Badami to ask about the train. There were about 6 people suddenly gathering on the station (imagine a really small trainstaion at a tiny little village), to help us. We told them that we want to get to Goa from Hubli, and we just want to check if a specific train really exists, and what time it leaves. I even had the train number and name with me. First they started to explain us how we can get from Badami to Hubli. After telling them ca. 5 times that we're taking a train to Hubli, they told us about an afternoon train to Goa. OK, that's fine, jsut we want to ask about the night train. No, there is no night train. Then i told them again that i've seen in on the net... Well, then there is that night train. Somehow i got the idea that they believed that if that girl has a paper, and there is some info WRITTEN down on it, then it must be true. So even if they don't know anything about the train, if i can show them my paper with the data, then the train must also exist.....
After this small intermezzo we finally really got to Hubli (yes, madam, there are busses every 30 mins.... somehow we had to wait 50 min until there was one...). In Hubli we had to get from the bus station to the railway station. Seems like i'm pretty much getting used to dealing down the price, as i had not even the slightest idea how far the bus stand is from the railway station, but since the taxi-driver said 25 rupees, i told him 20, and he took us :))))
On the trainstation we were asking about the train: yes, it does exist. And are there also available seats? (Quite important on a night-train...) Well, they don't know, we shall ask the main conductor. We went to him, first he said that we should only buy a "general ticket", get on the train, and then the conductor on the train will give us seats. OK, just what if he can't? Especially that it turned out that only 3 coaches of the whole train are going to Vasco, the rest is going somewhere else, so there is not too much space anyway.... After asking again and again, finally the conductor on the trainstation told us to buy the ticket, and then "he'll make the reservation". And miracle, he could check on the places, and could tell us already where our berths will be. The price for the reservation is 160rs for 2 people, but "give me 200. No, 250". At this point my new negotiation-skills were activated again, so i was actually reducing the amount of bribe to 220 :))) Am i great?
So now we're in goa, we've taken out a nice room 5 min walk from the sea, and although there was not really full sunshine today, we both have a nice color, and will continue to work on it (and our bellies) in the coming 2 days.
But now i have to go to sit next to the swimming pool with my book, and order a beer :)
péntek, augusztus 24, 2007
Taj Mahal
Hat most csak Taj-os kepek lesznek, mert a tobbit mar attoltottem a kis bizemra, es annak az usb kabelet nem hoztam el. De szerintem ezekben is gyonyorkodhettek kicsit :)
A fobejarat
A Taj bejarata melletti diszites:
A Jamuna, hatul meg az agra red fort:
Egy kis sokadrangu latnivalo agraban....
A fobejarat
A Taj bejarata melletti diszites:
A Jamuna, hatul meg az agra red fort:
Egy kis sokadrangu latnivalo agraban....
Agra-Aurangabad
Szoval kepek tovabbra sincsenek, mert ismet olyan helyre jottunk netezni, ahol nincs usb csatlakozo a gepen. no comment....
tegnap ota egyebkent nem lattunk semmit, leven az utolso bejelentkezes utan egyenesen felultunk a vonatra, amirol a menetrend szerinti 20 ora helyett 24 ora utn szalltunk le. Ejszaka Marti aludt alul, aztan voltak mindenfele kalandjai (katonak jottek az allamhataron, meg valaki beleturkalt a csomago koze, stb), aztan meg a hasmenes is kitort rajta kicsit + mindketten jol megfaztunk, ugyhogy asszem elerte a melypontot. De meg mindig nagyon jol tartja magat, szoval buszke vagyok ra. De a gond biztosan csak az lehetett, hogy miutan a ket uveg palinka kozul az elsot egy nap alatt ittuk meg ketten, az elmult 24 orban nagyon lecsokkent a pialasi hajlandosagunk, ez is gondolom ranyomta a belyeget a hangulatara. De most este meghuztu alaposan az uveget is, ugyhogy a masodik uvegnek is mar csak a fele van meg, es meg egy kis fokhagymat is ettunk, hogy jo legyen a torkunknak. Ezek utan jol elkeveredtunk most a netcafet keresve, ugyhogy par embernek jol az arcaba leheltem pia- es fokhagymaszaguan. Ja, azt nem is emlitettem, hogy mikor mondta M, hogy hoz ket uveg paleszt, akkor kicsit megijedtem, mert goarol nem lehet piat kihozni, es nehogy elvegyek ott tolunk a hataron. De asszem emiatt mar nem kell aggodnom :)))
Holnap meg a tervezett ket varos helyett egyet fogunk megnezni, de az is jo lesz, mar fel is fogadtunk elore egy tuktukot, az fog elvinni meg visszahozni minket, aztan kora delutan mar ulunk is a kovetkezo vonatra, es irany Bijapur.
Na, most szolt a srac, hogy megis lehet valahogy kepeket feltolteni, megnezem, mit tehetunk az ugy erdekeben.
tegnap ota egyebkent nem lattunk semmit, leven az utolso bejelentkezes utan egyenesen felultunk a vonatra, amirol a menetrend szerinti 20 ora helyett 24 ora utn szalltunk le. Ejszaka Marti aludt alul, aztan voltak mindenfele kalandjai (katonak jottek az allamhataron, meg valaki beleturkalt a csomago koze, stb), aztan meg a hasmenes is kitort rajta kicsit + mindketten jol megfaztunk, ugyhogy asszem elerte a melypontot. De meg mindig nagyon jol tartja magat, szoval buszke vagyok ra. De a gond biztosan csak az lehetett, hogy miutan a ket uveg palinka kozul az elsot egy nap alatt ittuk meg ketten, az elmult 24 orban nagyon lecsokkent a pialasi hajlandosagunk, ez is gondolom ranyomta a belyeget a hangulatara. De most este meghuztu alaposan az uveget is, ugyhogy a masodik uvegnek is mar csak a fele van meg, es meg egy kis fokhagymat is ettunk, hogy jo legyen a torkunknak. Ezek utan jol elkeveredtunk most a netcafet keresve, ugyhogy par embernek jol az arcaba leheltem pia- es fokhagymaszaguan. Ja, azt nem is emlitettem, hogy mikor mondta M, hogy hoz ket uveg paleszt, akkor kicsit megijedtem, mert goarol nem lehet piat kihozni, es nehogy elvegyek ott tolunk a hataron. De asszem emiatt mar nem kell aggodnom :)))
Holnap meg a tervezett ket varos helyett egyet fogunk megnezni, de az is jo lesz, mar fel is fogadtunk elore egy tuktukot, az fog elvinni meg visszahozni minket, aztan kora delutan mar ulunk is a kovetkezo vonatra, es irany Bijapur.
Na, most szolt a srac, hogy megis lehet valahogy kepeket feltolteni, megnezem, mit tehetunk az ugy erdekeben.
csütörtök, augusztus 23, 2007
Delhi - Jaipur - Agra (Golden Triangle)
SORRY, NO PICTURES, I'LL PUT THEM ONLINE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
So, yes, Marti's luggage has arrived, and i was honestly amased to see that she has an even smaller bag than i do :) (yes, i was worried that she'll take too many things with her, shame on me...)
After hiring this lovely taxi for 4 days, after that first short sightseeing in Delhi the next day we went to the delhi red fort first, which is really huge. We've spent ca. 1 hr visiting it, when it turned out that what we've seen so far is only half of the whole thing.... What you have to know about the fort is that whoever has the fort, has the power over india (it was a military base until 10 years ago....), so entering it was already a challenge with metal-detectors, motozas, etc. And it is called red, because it is built using a relly nice shade of red sandstone - a bit darker color than tha stone used to build Petra. After the fort we went to pick up the luggage and pay the rest of the tour - this was the minute when i realised that i don't have money on my card, so Marti had to pay for me... (don't worry, i was transferring money from my other account so i have cash now. of course donations accepted :))).
There were two more things we wanted to see in Delhi, but one of them turned to be too expensive and crowded, so we didn't go in, and the second one was a temple, looking really much like the Sidney Opera. This temple is a main "House of Worship" for the Baha'is, some kind of a religion (sect...) mixing hinduism, christianity and islam. Weird, i can tell you. besides, they have a visitors centre with no toilets at all....
And in the evening we set out to get to Jaipur. the road was ca. 4,5 hrs, on a real motorway (ok, no game fence - vadvedo racs), sometimes some cows walking around, no lane-painting (felfestes), but we managed to go with an average speed of 80khm. quite good, though it relly felt like running into death sometimes :(
But we arrived safely and sweaty. Because we paid for a non-AC car, but during the first day in Delhi the driver had the AC on all the time (i guess that was the time when i got my cold), and i guess he wanted us to ask him to use the AC, so whenever possible he was parking in the sun. But soon he had to realise that we really don't want AC :)
Jaipur itself is a magic. Beautiful. There's a huge fort, and there is a city-wall all around the hills surrounding the fort. It means that the walls are at least 50km long. And the fort is full with elephants, and smaller and bigger staircaises, so we completely lost our way when we were about to leave. oh, and lucily it was raining heavily while we were in the fort, so at least now Marti also knows what's the monsoon :) (guess she was not really interested in this information....)
And the hotel in jaipur. The driver was supposed to know a good - cheap - hotel in J, but of course he didn't, so took us first to a hotel that was 3* more expensive than our budget, but then we got to another hotel, which was just facing a really lovely palast in the middle of a lake. We even got up at 6 to have some nice sunrise pictures of it. Yes, 6. We're great.
And las night we got to agra at last. (on the way also visited another fort, the ghost city, that was built, but later they realised that there's no water... so it's empty, apart from a few houses specialised in asking for money from the tourists. it was the worst so far, every two steps someone asking for a pen, chocolate, offering guided tours, rickshas, etc. etc.etc. horrible).
And this morning we've seen the Taj Mahal. It is just exactly as on the piuctures, just even more beautiful and much-much bigger. (getting up again at 6, lucily Marti's also set an alarm, because my telephone decided not to wake me up.... so we got ready for the Taj-visit in 15 - FIFTEEN - minutes, the both of as (shower, dressing, packing, etc.). We are great, right?)
The whole taj was built in a way to hold, so the platform the Taj is on also houses two more (fully identical) buildings, so that they make a better balance. The towers around the Taj are bending outwards by 3degreees, so that in case there's an earthquake, they don't fall on the Taj... And that the guy who's built the Taj also wanted to build another similar building for himself in black marble on the other side of the Jamuna river opposite to the Taj, but his son decided that it would be too much money, so put dear Daddy into the red fort of agra in prison (from there he also had a view of the Taj). So the complete simmetry of the Taj is only broken at one place, in the tomb, where the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal is in the middle, and his lovely husband's tomb is next to hers, slightly shifted to the left.
The stones in the Taj are from all around the world, even from Belgium, and it's just amazing. Really. Pictures coming up.
Now we're leaving for Aurangabad (20hrs trainride, khm :) ), i really hope that there'll be some internet so that i can upload my pics.
So, yes, Marti's luggage has arrived, and i was honestly amased to see that she has an even smaller bag than i do :) (yes, i was worried that she'll take too many things with her, shame on me...)
After hiring this lovely taxi for 4 days, after that first short sightseeing in Delhi the next day we went to the delhi red fort first, which is really huge. We've spent ca. 1 hr visiting it, when it turned out that what we've seen so far is only half of the whole thing.... What you have to know about the fort is that whoever has the fort, has the power over india (it was a military base until 10 years ago....), so entering it was already a challenge with metal-detectors, motozas, etc. And it is called red, because it is built using a relly nice shade of red sandstone - a bit darker color than tha stone used to build Petra. After the fort we went to pick up the luggage and pay the rest of the tour - this was the minute when i realised that i don't have money on my card, so Marti had to pay for me... (don't worry, i was transferring money from my other account so i have cash now. of course donations accepted :))).
There were two more things we wanted to see in Delhi, but one of them turned to be too expensive and crowded, so we didn't go in, and the second one was a temple, looking really much like the Sidney Opera. This temple is a main "House of Worship" for the Baha'is, some kind of a religion (sect...) mixing hinduism, christianity and islam. Weird, i can tell you. besides, they have a visitors centre with no toilets at all....
And in the evening we set out to get to Jaipur. the road was ca. 4,5 hrs, on a real motorway (ok, no game fence - vadvedo racs), sometimes some cows walking around, no lane-painting (felfestes), but we managed to go with an average speed of 80khm. quite good, though it relly felt like running into death sometimes :(
But we arrived safely and sweaty. Because we paid for a non-AC car, but during the first day in Delhi the driver had the AC on all the time (i guess that was the time when i got my cold), and i guess he wanted us to ask him to use the AC, so whenever possible he was parking in the sun. But soon he had to realise that we really don't want AC :)
Jaipur itself is a magic. Beautiful. There's a huge fort, and there is a city-wall all around the hills surrounding the fort. It means that the walls are at least 50km long. And the fort is full with elephants, and smaller and bigger staircaises, so we completely lost our way when we were about to leave. oh, and lucily it was raining heavily while we were in the fort, so at least now Marti also knows what's the monsoon :) (guess she was not really interested in this information....)
And the hotel in jaipur. The driver was supposed to know a good - cheap - hotel in J, but of course he didn't, so took us first to a hotel that was 3* more expensive than our budget, but then we got to another hotel, which was just facing a really lovely palast in the middle of a lake. We even got up at 6 to have some nice sunrise pictures of it. Yes, 6. We're great.
And las night we got to agra at last. (on the way also visited another fort, the ghost city, that was built, but later they realised that there's no water... so it's empty, apart from a few houses specialised in asking for money from the tourists. it was the worst so far, every two steps someone asking for a pen, chocolate, offering guided tours, rickshas, etc. etc.etc. horrible).
And this morning we've seen the Taj Mahal. It is just exactly as on the piuctures, just even more beautiful and much-much bigger. (getting up again at 6, lucily Marti's also set an alarm, because my telephone decided not to wake me up.... so we got ready for the Taj-visit in 15 - FIFTEEN - minutes, the both of as (shower, dressing, packing, etc.). We are great, right?)
The whole taj was built in a way to hold, so the platform the Taj is on also houses two more (fully identical) buildings, so that they make a better balance. The towers around the Taj are bending outwards by 3degreees, so that in case there's an earthquake, they don't fall on the Taj... And that the guy who's built the Taj also wanted to build another similar building for himself in black marble on the other side of the Jamuna river opposite to the Taj, but his son decided that it would be too much money, so put dear Daddy into the red fort of agra in prison (from there he also had a view of the Taj). So the complete simmetry of the Taj is only broken at one place, in the tomb, where the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal is in the middle, and his lovely husband's tomb is next to hers, slightly shifted to the left.
The stones in the Taj are from all around the world, even from Belgium, and it's just amazing. Really. Pictures coming up.
Now we're leaving for Aurangabad (20hrs trainride, khm :) ), i really hope that there'll be some internet so that i can upload my pics.
hétfő, augusztus 20, 2007
Delhi, day 2.
So....
Marti arrived in the morning, but unfortunately not her luggage.... But she seems to take it quite well, and also the full day sightseeing after a sleepless night.
And what have we seen? Not too much, as monday here means everything is closed. But we saw the India gate:
and the president's palace:
Oh yes, and we didn't go on a sightseeing tour as i've planned before, but actually we hired a taxi for the next 3 days, and instead of only going to Agra, we'll also go to Jaipur, which is said to be a really nice place. So tomorrow in the morning we're leaving Delhi after a sightseeing, and we go to Jaipur, and the day after we'll get to Agra. I'm really looking forward to the Taj mahal....
Our driver is an elder man, quite nice, and he always opens the door when we want to get in :) And although we've payd a non-airconditioned car, we got an AC one :)))) So we are the full spoiled, stupid but happy tourists....
So, and the most important thing: we've made quite some shopping today, the only problem will be carrying them all along with us... I even had to get another bag for myself... But unfortunately i guess later on it won't really be possible to buy all these things.
Oh, and today we also tryed a bicycle-ricksha, which is only possible here in Delhi, as in all the other cities (maybe with the exception of Bombay-Mumbay) they are banned. Frightening, these cyckle-rickshas, i can tell you....
And some more images:
this is the memorial of the big walk of Gandhi to the sea. The story is that Gandhi (and some thousands of other people) walked from Gandhi's ashram to the sea (ca. 300km), protesting against the british ban on salt-making, and when they got to the sea, they actully produced their own salt. Quite natureally, th british weren't really happy with this, as the tax imposed on salt was a quite good income for them, but this was one of the first big things in the fight for independence here. End of history-lesson :)
Marti tehenet idomit :)))
Our neighbourhood in Delhi:
And one more thing: now that Marti is here, my going home finally started to become a real thing, slowly i believe that i'm actually going home.... wow. still can't really grasp it....
Marti arrived in the morning, but unfortunately not her luggage.... But she seems to take it quite well, and also the full day sightseeing after a sleepless night.
And what have we seen? Not too much, as monday here means everything is closed. But we saw the India gate:
and the president's palace:
Oh yes, and we didn't go on a sightseeing tour as i've planned before, but actually we hired a taxi for the next 3 days, and instead of only going to Agra, we'll also go to Jaipur, which is said to be a really nice place. So tomorrow in the morning we're leaving Delhi after a sightseeing, and we go to Jaipur, and the day after we'll get to Agra. I'm really looking forward to the Taj mahal....
Our driver is an elder man, quite nice, and he always opens the door when we want to get in :) And although we've payd a non-airconditioned car, we got an AC one :)))) So we are the full spoiled, stupid but happy tourists....
So, and the most important thing: we've made quite some shopping today, the only problem will be carrying them all along with us... I even had to get another bag for myself... But unfortunately i guess later on it won't really be possible to buy all these things.
Oh, and today we also tryed a bicycle-ricksha, which is only possible here in Delhi, as in all the other cities (maybe with the exception of Bombay-Mumbay) they are banned. Frightening, these cyckle-rickshas, i can tell you....
And some more images:
this is the memorial of the big walk of Gandhi to the sea. The story is that Gandhi (and some thousands of other people) walked from Gandhi's ashram to the sea (ca. 300km), protesting against the british ban on salt-making, and when they got to the sea, they actully produced their own salt. Quite natureally, th british weren't really happy with this, as the tax imposed on salt was a quite good income for them, but this was one of the first big things in the fight for independence here. End of history-lesson :)
Marti tehenet idomit :)))
Our neighbourhood in Delhi:
And one more thing: now that Marti is here, my going home finally started to become a real thing, slowly i believe that i'm actually going home.... wow. still can't really grasp it....
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