Day 27: New Delhi, India

Chinese Version / 中文版本

Our one-week India trip finally came to an end (applaud), hence my two companions had all prepared the mood to go back home. But I am not going home yet, I could only prepare my mood to venture another city - Shanghai (finally back to civilization)! 

The car ride of today was the worst part. Not including traffic jam, it took more than 6 hours. On the way, the driver did stop at some restaurant with some rip-off tourist price. We just finished the crackers we bought yesterday, so that we wouldn't be starving when we were back in New Delhi. 

Before going back to the hostel, we asked the driver to stop at the post office first. He then nonstop chattered to himself, but in fact he was blaming us, that today is holiday and post office would not be opened; and complained we did not tell him earlier. Finally, the post office was still opened, we could mail our postcard successfully and he could keep his mouth shut forever!!!

He dropped us at the same big road where he picked us up a week ago. Chloe was responsible to give him the tips from us. When he looked at the money, he started to yell at us again. Since I was busy to load off our luggage with Eason, Chloe was the one to deal with him. She told him that we did not have extra money left, we had to save for the taxi we would take to the airport tonight. Therefore, we just had this amount of tips we thought he deserved. He got so mad, and drove off immediately without turning his head back to us!!! 

We stored our luggage in the hostel we had stayed previously, and then went to have lunch in Connaught Circus. To celebrate the last day in India, we chose a more high end restaurant. The food was not bad, but the irresponsible waiter made a wrong order and we had to suck it up no matter how many times we complained. Tears fell down when we saw the final bill!

The market in New Delhi

After lunch, we walked back to the hostel on foot. Though the flight would depart at 11 p.m., we determined to go to the airport earlier, at least the environment was so much nicer. Back to the familiar airport, things did not go as smoothly as anticipated. Previously mentioned in the Kathmandu's airport, travelers had to show e-tickets before entering the departure hall. Of course we did not have the e-tickets with us this time, therefore, we needed to go to the far left side of the airport. There was a counter, where the staff could print out our e-tickets. Needless to say, this service wasn't free. They really know how to do business here in India!

There's no free wifi in the airport. It was quite boring to stay at first, but it got so much better after getting through custom. There were duty free shops, book stores, branded boutiques for us to kill time. Eventually, I bought 2 more books of my beloved author Milan Kundera. The price was unbelievably cheap, maybe it's the only good thing of India that I could ever think of.

Epilogue:

There was no travel journal for Shanghai, because I did not take any photo besides eating/ sleeping/ defecating. Also, the impression Shanghai gave me was very similar to Hong Kong, high rise buildings everywhere to be seen, nothing's really special. One thing worth to mention was that Chloe did not only have an upset stomach after going back home, but also vomited her lung out. On the other hand, my diarrhea was lasted for more than 2 months after I was back home. In fact, this impromptu Indian trip did cost us really dearly.