Getting to India

Namaste a tutti,
Just a quick msg to let you know i made it to tikamasala paradise in one very excited and cramped up piece!

So far ive gotten to know very little, concentrating primarily in airports and one exquisite hotel, however my imagination and my senses are already going wild.  Sari'ded women everywhere, funky smelling hindus too, turbanned friendlies, and smokey smog....

Im so ready for some food and some honey i shrunk thhe tourist culture (magnanimous temples)...  Anyways, as i illustrated my costa rican travels via blog, as will thhis trip hopefully.

Below is the first one.  Sent especially to you only.... Before i build the blog page.

Muchos besos muy emocionados!
G



India travel journal # 1

Getting to delhi
Nov 8-10 2011

The journey to my first good night's sleep in delhi took just about 30 hours or airport bonding, leaping from mexico city to madrid (12) skipping to heathrow (3) where i excitingly met my travelling buddy Sophia at wagamama for my spicy fix, and theeeeeen the last 9 hr. flight, thankfully forced into slumber w soph's pm pills.

Had never seen 2 pairs of sunrises and moonrises in one single journey.  Gorgeous, especially in contrasted with my pale lit zombie faced self.

Arrive to new delhi.  We step out of british e+, and the royalty treatment begins.  One very proper turbanned man awaits outside plane holding a Sophia Ariza sign, and quickly enforces the "dont move a finger, dont even think" motto.  They think and move for us.

After well connected speedy maneuvers out of immigratn, baggage, and pickup... We are delivered at the Trident hotel.  

But before we arrive, i had two immediate discoveries:
- smoggy welcome: contaminated incenty smoggy fog surrounds the city.  I imagine this is due to  the over industrialized city and adjusting to post rainy saeon/ not having the rain flushing the smog down.

Also, Apparently the airport opened just 14 months ago, and is precisely located in an up and coming industrial and tech neighborhood, where over 800 office building and accompanying housing developmts are being built as we speak, or rather, as we clear are throat from the smokey dust,

- the time difference: it is 14.5 hrs more than pst.  Not 14 not 15. Hehe.  Im sure those extra those 30 minutes were engineered ensure international employees made conference calls on time.

Back to trident.  As the name would subconsciously incinuate,we arrive to a refreshing place.  inspiring, modern zen entrance, with friendly namaste repeating service in every corner, and our very good looking tour facilitator of the evening.  

For our comfort we are checked-in im our bedroom, one that had two heavenly clouded cushioned comfortters that were chanting for some sleeping action, and a deliciosly drowning shower offering to release me of my travelling bochornos.   I oblige on both accounts.

7am: "calling for your wake up call ma'm." recharged after almost 4 hour royal sleep, noticing i did not move an inch from my entry shavasana pose.  

Promptly (not in IST) at 8am, Reet of quo vadis travel, http://www.quovadis.in/, who impressive and generously prepared our extravagant 6 day tour, met us at hotel.  Back to our new found home: airport.... Off to jodhpur.

First 40 hours of our journey. 34 spent in air related spaces. 6 gigglingly adjusting to new interesting (good interesting, and inteeeresting interestg) sights, smells, textures, and treatments....   More of this to come.


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