Dehli delight, ricksahw debates and we leave tonight!

So its now nearly 2pm on Monday the 2nd AUg, i have been on the raod since 11 pm saturday and have so far had a grand total of about 9 hours sleep! I arrived this morning into Delhi where i met some new frineds and have been out all day avioding the traffic and the cows, we are all going out for dinner later. Delhi is ok but very hot dry dusty and busy i am really looking forward to travelling up to rishikesh on Wendesday.
i manages a few hours kip on the coach, another hour on the moscow flight during which they served dinner - well i wasnt going to sleep thrught that was i! Believe it or not roast lamb, with gravy and was actually very yummy. Unlike the salad that i had a slight mishap woth when i thought i was covering it in salad dressing only to realise that it was actually mustard, reminds me of a similiar issue i had once with what i thought was finely sliced smoked salmon only to discover it was atually ginger - nuff said!
Arrived at Moscow met my first friend she has been couch surfing in Cuba - how odd, great chat she is from budapest and off home will catch her on line soon - cyber sufring as well!!!!
Moscow was so hot i thought it would be cold so i turned up wearing everything - nearly died after an hour. Went to the bar bought a pint costt 300 somethings - dont know what dread to think i have probably just spent my budjet!!
Plane to Delhi was nice watched a file ate another meal.

anyhew - will update when less tired, also half the keys on this board are either missing or not english and this is real hard work!

So, India so far, well very complex actually. And technically i have not been traveling alone, well i actually traveled alone but i knew where i was going so no real surprises just yet.
So, yesterday i arrive, off the plane through customs and into a pre pay taxi from inside the airport to Rajiv house (Rajiv is a friend of Trividesh who is my CS friend) very confusing so anyway i arrive its now 8am or thereabouts and in the time it has taken me to leave UK and get here my room is now occupied, its fine though there is plenty of room here. So we chat for about an hour but Rajiv has work, meanwhile the other occupant Rasmal gets up. She is from Australia, but from indian family so she looks indian (this will prove to be both advantageous and disasterous on our travels) but talks with an Aussie accent. Ras only arrived the day before and has been in INdia for 2months now. Anyway we decide to go sightseeing, i thought sleep would only confuse body at this stage so best get on with it!
We take rickshaw to red fort, cost 120Rs, arrive, pay, get out, fort closed! This is typical and driver would have known.
NOw as we stand by roadside being accosted by many indians where to madam, rickshaw madam, come in here madam, (still yet to learn hindi for fuck off!) we head into the nearest building, only to be told to remove shoes which we tentatively leave with man hoping to fins them again on return. On entry temple looks nice all white marble, they have a meditation room which is open so we go in and its amazing amongst the hustle and bustle of Delhi this place is so tranquil and quiet so sit a while. After which we go up to the temple proper and there are people praying and offering rice to the gods, incense is burning every where, we both ring the bell and make a wish.
So out and back to shoe man who gives us back our shoes, grateful we give him 5Rs. Up the road we stop to buy water and see a market and another temple so we head up the street, so many people and its now getting really hot. The smells are sometimes so over powering you want to be sick, and being the only white person i get stared at by everyone. The men is this country do not give you space and some just walk into me, this would not happen to indian women but not much i can do. The temple is 200Rs to enter so we dont bother, the men are now pissed off at us as they had been robing us but we were not told until robed, i have not a robe removed so fast in my life! Then Ras has argument with man who had her shoes (mine still on my feet) and eventually we get going.
We want to head to Parharganj (where i would have been staying if i booked) but a rickshaw wants 100 which is more than it cost to get here and we know its only round the corner. The men will not put meter on but keep shouting money at us eventually a small group gather to see what the fuss is and Ras screaming why wont anyone go on meter, a man said we are on the wrong side of road (it makes all the difference apparently). So we cross road, actually us and another handful of whits people make the dash for safety and the man has come with us. He tries to enlist several rickshaw but all 100Rs, so he finds us a bus, he has been very helpful sadly not everyone here is this nice and you wonder what people are after but then sometimes nothing. I get on the back as Ras gets on the front where upon much to the amusement of the other occupants of the bus we individually run up our down out respective stairs thinking we have lost one another until people stop laughing and tell us we are both on the bus! We pay and get off just outside parhargaj. A short walk and we arrive, my god what a sight the whole place is being ripped apart its a mess i am glad i did not come here to stay i would have flipped out. Business still in operation so i buy my trousers and a sarong. We go to a rooftop bar for lunch Ras orders and it is lovely, but indian spices are so different over here i dint eat too much for fear of my stomach!
We go to internet cafe and generally bum about but all the while i get stared at and eventually my ass get touched as men walk past, so enough for me before i get really pissed off we head home, but not before another rickshaw argument has ensued!!!!
We talk on the way home i say Delhi is tiring for me and i may leave tomorrow as i want to head out of here, its been a fab day but hot and stressful. So Ras wants to come which is awesome as i dont now have to do my first train on my own. That evening we make plans as try to book on train however this is not as easy as it sounds with Rajiv on the case on the internet and the three of us sorting it is still impossible and by 930pm i am now very tired and Rajiv has a man who can help us book it.....................................