21st June 1992 Day 337

The Diary

India Gate, Delhi

At breakfast an Indian couple appeared. Maybe there are more guests after all. We walked to the bus & caught the 10:15 to Delhi. Another good bus & this time less than half-full. A rarity. The English lad with the Rio t-shirt that we'd seen in several Indian trains was also on the bus. He was his usual lonely, uncommunicative self. We caught a taxi to Connaught Place after a rickshaw-wallah had asked 80rp. You could catch a train half-way to Bombay for that. The hotels around the Janpath  area were small grotty and full of hippies. No luck we went to Wimpy for some food and to decide what to do next. 



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We decided to try the Puri Yatri GH recommended by the Atithi GH. We eventually got there despite the rickshaw driver going in totally the wrong direction. It's a good job I can read a map. It was very nice but as overpriced as the Janpath GH's. We tried to bargain the owner down but 300rp for a 5 night stay was his final offer. We booked in for 1 night at 350rp.


We then went to the Paharganj area in search of hotels. We checked quite a few out. They were mostly grotty but we eventually put a deposit down on a 200rp room at the Metropolis. We then ate there to the melodious strains of AC/DC's Highway to Hell. Far better than Hindi music. We then returned to our sauna like room for the evening.

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Bombay. Mumbai nowadays.


Looking at the websites of these guest houses, they've either been completely renovated or they're different places with the same names.