Sonntag, 21. November 2010

i did some sightseeing...here we go!
in the streets in delhi
traffic jam at a bridge

jama masjid, biggest mosque in delhi

lady in the street

outside red fort delhi (unesco world heritage)

same

inside...
funny thing, many people want to take pics with me...i really dont know the reason, but it happened often. not 5 or 10 times, but really often...what ever, if they are happy with that!!
also inside the red fort
red fort

sleeping in the streets
 im used to a lot now, dont really care about all the noise, the polution, the people who always want something (at the end of almost all talks there is the intention to make some business), but im not really used to the people who sleep everywhere...during the night as well as during the day
"shop" in front of a lot of rubbish (it really stinks!!)

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qutub minar, as well unesco worl heritage

qutub minar

and last but not least an unesco world heritage, humayuns tomb

humayuns tomb again...

...and again
humayuns tomb is said to have been the model (vorbild solls bedeuten!) of the world famous taj mahal in agra (where i will go hopfully tomorrow)
in the crowded metro at night after work
 if never been at such a crowded place before in my life!! metro in moscow for example was nothing compared to these crowds here!!
parliament

indian gate

without words!! (at gandhis place)

here gandhi was murdered


sleeping

eating thali set, also really good (and more spicy than food in nepal)

bettelmoench

beggar

he is producing lassi

buddhistic monks

toilets in the streets...but still many people pissing everywhere!

in the streets

sometimes whole families on rickshaws
shower in the streets

sleeping

cotton market

old man
tomorrow i hope to go to agra, to taj mahal...and then more to the west!

flo, ich kann dich am handy ned erreichen, die leute meinten dass wahrschienlich was mit deiner company ned passst...

Freitag, 19. November 2010

bye bye nepal

yesterday in the night i arrived in india...so my time in nepal is over - for this trip!!

last sunday i left pokhara with the bus, my goal was bardia national park. i knew it would be a long journey...but i dintn know it would be that long!! i arrived at the station (only local buses go there), and was, not really surprisingly, the only foreigner on that bus. people looked quite strange at me, they didnt really know what to think about me... it was ok though. what was worse was that the bus broke - twice! so we lost many hours waiting that somebody would fix the problems. it gets wuit early dark, at least at 6 its completely dark; so a big part of the journey was in the night. even though it was nepals biggest "highway" there is hardly space for two buses, so its always quite close when a bus or truk cames from the other direction. and since its nepals only street into the west all the time many cars, buses ect. come. we did also see some accidents and often the ambulance...and i decided to avoid traveling in the night in buses in these countries from now on...as good as possible! in the end i met a boy who was also on the bus, he kept apologizing for the condition of the road, the bus...of nepal, the people in the bus...he said he was raised up like this that he has to take care of guests - and im a guest in nepal! it was nice to have somebody who speaks a little bit english around you! at about half past 5 in the morning i arrived in ambasa, where i was picked up by people from the park - after about 16 hours in that bus!

i decided to do a jungle walk. this means that you walk with a guide in the jungle, and there live animals like tigers, elephants, rhinos, crocodiles, a lot of deer,...and many others. the guide had just a stick for protection, no gun.
my duide, indra...

...and myself in the high grass
the most scary part was to walk through that high grass, because if a tiger or a rhino would suddenly stand in ftont of you...and all the protection is one stick...quite paradox, you walk around and want to see the tiger, but are in a way also happy not to see it!!
mostly we walked in the river bed, because its safer...
you can see the animals in advance and also you pass many water holes where the animals are supposed to be! and we found something else in the river bed:

tiger footprints from the previous night

rhino shit from a grown up and a baby!!
suddenly in the river we heard some noise, and as we went closer to see we found a rhino mother and her baby grasing!! since the wind came from their direction they could not smell and hear us, so we could get pretty close - about 15 meters! unfortunately my cam is not good, and we had to stay at the side of the river, so the pictures are not that great. but it is really amazing to be so close to these animals - when they are not in a zoo!!
the ass of the mother and left is the baby, hidden in the grass
lunch place, and there arrived...

..another rhino
tree in the park

sunset
 i decided in the evening to give the tiger a second chance and so i joined a jeep safari the second day!
deer
one of the spots where we waited - but nothing came!

amazing trees...but not only the trees are amazing!!
termites

in the dry river bed

the trees were really great here
crocodile

one of these trees again
 yesterday i left bardia national park at 4 in the morning, 4h bus ride to the boarder...and many many more hours to delhi!! i was in my hotel at 1 in the morning!! just a few pics...more soon!

many many motor rickshaws (pic out of a motor rickshaw!


bangla sahib gurudwara, delhis biggest sikh temple

business asusual in the streets