2 Idiots Abroad...

An eventful first few days...


Friday


So we arrived in Delhi safe and sound...to sum Delhi up - its dirty, everyone drives like absolute maniacs and everyone wants your money! 
The journey here was fine, my mum survived the whole car journey without crying but then made up for it by weeping like a baby at Heathrow! Mine and Ems spirits were high - especially when we saw the previous winner of BNTM in front of us in the queue to go through to the departures! Mischa i think her name was but cant remember! Soon after we boarded the flight, and enjoyed 8 hours of sleeping, movies and getting annoyed at the american behind who snored like a bear.
When we arrived in Delhi, we were happy to have the man standing with my name on card waiting for us. Turned out this man wasnt so nice and wouldnt let us out of the car until we gave him money (even though we had already booked for him to come and get us and he nearly killed us several times in the journey). We were abit scared so i gave him a £2 coin and emily gave him 10p haha. We were then taken to our room - Smyle Inn (up an alleyway with a man pissing up against the wall) - given the wrong room and ended up in an argument with the owner as it was disgusting and the lock didnt even work on the door! We were then  given a different room which wasnt much better so decided to leave and find somewhere else to stay. After a further argument we had to pay for him to let us leave, what a prick! Anyway we were out of that place asap and soon found ourselves in some government of india place where a man with an Indian/London/Australian accent took us in and guided us. We were still a little wary but it seems to have worked out for the best and were given Mano and his friend Ravi as our drivers. They drove us round to see some sights in Delhi before taking us to our hotel for the night. An important note to make about India is that everyone here drives like maniacs and beep constantly - i think its way of saying hello there, either that or everyone is extremely moody. Who knows!
We were taken to the hotel and at first were happy with the room as it did not look like some man had rubbed his arse up against the wall all day. However when we were going to bed we realised it wasnt so great when we were both shivering all night but never mind!


Saturday


On saturday we travelled to Agra with Ravi (our lovely driver who protects us and takes us everywhere we want to go), and our trip in India has finally started to look up. We saw some very funny things on our journey here, especially a man hanging out the back of some sort of truck and all we could see was his butt and legs hanging down, he could very well have been dead but who knows. Another funny moment was when Ravi had to stop the car to go pay tax and we were left in the car by ourselves with strange people coming up to windows asking for money, my favourite was a man with a monkey on a chain making him jump and put his face against the window. Safe to say he didnt get any money from us! Our room for tonight is clean and actually has a shower (instead of using a bucket like we had to use in Delhi) and the people here seem alot nicer. 
We spent the afternoon at the Taj Mahal which was incredible and a real turning point for us here. We had a lovely guide who told us everything and took lots of photos of us! Here are some pics...

We got taken around to do some errands and then dropped back to the hotel. We decided to go for a curry at the restaurant downstairs and had some rice and naan to share. We ordered a curry but it was pretty much red/pink chicken covered in cream - not nice! 


Sunday


 Today we have spent the day travelling to Jaipur, the pink city!  We have just arrived and our hotel was a pleasant suprise - an actual shower, a kettle and clean pillows! We are here for the next 3 nights so it will be nice to relax abit more and see the city more. We have heard lots of good things about this place so  excited to see it! Hopefully our week here will continue to improve! India is such a culture shock and it is incredible seeing the differences in the way we live! But it is safe to say we are VERY excited to get to Thailand and party and sunbathe on the beaches! 
Will update soon!
xoxo