Views arriving early morning in Old Delhi made Slumdog millionaire scenes look like pristine English countryside. Old Delhi station relic from days of Raj still with "Tiffin room", "Deluxe Dormitaries" and the "Upper Class Waiting room"which we got to know very well over the ensuing 20 hours. (We promise never to moan about lengthy airport waits again in future).
Escaped the station area with very surly unhelpful tuk tuk driver. Abandoned him a few ks away and picked up with very helpful chatty young tuk tuk guy. But the rest of the morning he kept trying to take us to "tourist information offices" which were actually private travel agents and who promptly tried to rearrange your plans and sell you different hotels and drivers etc. When he realised we were not buying, we were dumped at a Metro and told to find our own way back to our station !
Did manage to see many of New Delhi's landmarks however before we were abandoned.
Also survived the heat in the Upper Class waiting room until about 2.0 am when the 'Kalka Mail' train finally decided to arrive.
Escaped the station area with very surly unhelpful tuk tuk driver. Abandoned him a few ks away and picked up with very helpful chatty young tuk tuk guy. But the rest of the morning he kept trying to take us to "tourist information offices" which were actually private travel agents and who promptly tried to rearrange your plans and sell you different hotels and drivers etc. When he realised we were not buying, we were dumped at a Metro and told to find our own way back to our station !
Did manage to see many of New Delhi's landmarks however before we were abandoned.
Also survived the heat in the Upper Class waiting room until about 2.0 am when the 'Kalka Mail' train finally decided to arrive.
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