Agra, India January 28th.
So here i am in India. And to tell you the truth I can hardly believe I'm here still. Everything is so amazing, so intense and so very INDIA - just the way it's supposed to be.
I'm sitting in the bussiness center at our hotell, i was hoping there would be place for me to upload photos but they don't seem to have a card reader- either that or the man did not understand what i wanted to do. One gets that quite a lot, people will missunderstand you and things will turn out really funny.
We arrived yesterday morning local time 6 in the morning in Delhi, which was 02:30 our time so we were quite tired, i didn't get any sleep on the plane, way too exciting. From delhi airport we met up with a driver that was to take us to our hotell. The taxi ride took about four and a half hours. It was an exciting car trip to Agra though, lots to look at. The way they drive here is amazing, i'm amazed i've survived two days =) no really they seem to know what they are doing which is more than i can say for myself. One funny thing is that they use the horn - the whole time!!! It's beeep beep beep, all the time. Just so other cars know your coming up behind, i guess the honking sometimes means get out of my way too. Horses, cows, rikshas everything everywhere. Scooters honking. And occasionally someone will pass on the wrong side or a car will be driving by with the horn down all the way so all you here is a long beeeeeeeeeep. It's very interesting to watch. I can't get over all the animals everywhere. We saw lots of monkeys along the way here. And ofcourse cows everywhere!
Today we visited Taj Mahal, oh how beautiful it was. We went with a very good guide who knew all the special places to stand to get all those good pictures. It as really amazing to see it, it was so beautiful. (wish i could show pictures now) Another day perhaps.
Over three milion people travel to Agra every year to see the Taj Mahal and over 6 million people from around india come to see it. We saw lots of Indian tourists as well. The indian people thought we were very interesting and i had several people come up to me today and ask if they could take a picture of them together with me =) haha isn't that funny. Our guide said that they are people from the countryside and they like to take pictures so they can show their friends and family at home and say "look i have a friend from another country"
Also they like to show their kids, I got to shake hands with too tiny little indian girls today, they were two and a half years old and four years old. Then their father took a picture of the three of us (the two little girls and me) with his mobile phone.
Hilarious really.
Okay i think i need to get going now. But here is a sign of me so far being alive. =) Oh and ofcourse the indian food is amazing. And so much vegetarian to choose from considering lots of indian people are vegetarians and they all get very happy when you tell them you like spicy real indian food. The people are so friendly here. If you thank them they thank you back and always tell you they are 'most welcome, most welcome'
=)
Well i'm going to get going now. Just wanted you all to know, that so far so good.
lots of love //mich.
I'm sitting in the bussiness center at our hotell, i was hoping there would be place for me to upload photos but they don't seem to have a card reader- either that or the man did not understand what i wanted to do. One gets that quite a lot, people will missunderstand you and things will turn out really funny.
We arrived yesterday morning local time 6 in the morning in Delhi, which was 02:30 our time so we were quite tired, i didn't get any sleep on the plane, way too exciting. From delhi airport we met up with a driver that was to take us to our hotell. The taxi ride took about four and a half hours. It was an exciting car trip to Agra though, lots to look at. The way they drive here is amazing, i'm amazed i've survived two days =) no really they seem to know what they are doing which is more than i can say for myself. One funny thing is that they use the horn - the whole time!!! It's beeep beep beep, all the time. Just so other cars know your coming up behind, i guess the honking sometimes means get out of my way too. Horses, cows, rikshas everything everywhere. Scooters honking. And occasionally someone will pass on the wrong side or a car will be driving by with the horn down all the way so all you here is a long beeeeeeeeeep. It's very interesting to watch. I can't get over all the animals everywhere. We saw lots of monkeys along the way here. And ofcourse cows everywhere!
Today we visited Taj Mahal, oh how beautiful it was. We went with a very good guide who knew all the special places to stand to get all those good pictures. It as really amazing to see it, it was so beautiful. (wish i could show pictures now) Another day perhaps.
Over three milion people travel to Agra every year to see the Taj Mahal and over 6 million people from around india come to see it. We saw lots of Indian tourists as well. The indian people thought we were very interesting and i had several people come up to me today and ask if they could take a picture of them together with me =) haha isn't that funny. Our guide said that they are people from the countryside and they like to take pictures so they can show their friends and family at home and say "look i have a friend from another country"
Also they like to show their kids, I got to shake hands with too tiny little indian girls today, they were two and a half years old and four years old. Then their father took a picture of the three of us (the two little girls and me) with his mobile phone.
Hilarious really.
Okay i think i need to get going now. But here is a sign of me so far being alive. =) Oh and ofcourse the indian food is amazing. And so much vegetarian to choose from considering lots of indian people are vegetarians and they all get very happy when you tell them you like spicy real indian food. The people are so friendly here. If you thank them they thank you back and always tell you they are 'most welcome, most welcome'
=)
Well i'm going to get going now. Just wanted you all to know, that so far so good.
lots of love //mich.
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Postat av: Manne
Kul att höra att resan gått bra och att allt verkar utmärkt hitintills. Hoppas att det fortsätter så. Ha det så bra , och kram på dig.
Postat av: Lisa
Åh det låter underbart Michelle! Jätteroligt att höra från dig! Stor kram till er alla tre!
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