01 March 2009

Delhi, India

I took a bus to Delhi today and the driver had his hand on the horn for almost the entire 4.5 hour journey. After about two hours I wanted to throw something at him. Delhi's alright, almost kind of nice in some parts, though very few parts. The metro is shockingly good and modern but shockingly crowded. Oh what did I expect in the world's second most populous nation? To get on the metro you have to go through a metal detector and be frisked, and there are soldiers with automatic weapons behind big walls of sandbags. I really only have one mission and that's to get the hell out of India, because unfortunately it really just hasn't captivated me. But before I do that I need to get that stupid visa for Kazakhstan. I'm going to show up at the embassy very early tomorrow morning to try my luck. I can't imagine how many other people in Delhi need to visit the Kazakh Embassy, but I have images of the miles long line at the Indian Consulate in Dubai fresh in my mind.

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  1. Hi Dominic,
    Good luck at the Kazakh embassy tomorrow. I was so surprised to learn that you are 13-1/2 hours ahead of us. I thought all time zones went on the hour! Enjoy all those cows!

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