Had been planning to go on this trip for some time, but suddenly decided last Sunday to blast off the same night. The place wasn’t any cooler than what Pondicherry would have been in Winter. It was cetainly a good change for my son. The photos have been taking with my stupid box camera. I can’t afford a good SLR right now, so please don’t judge my photographic skills with this . Im really a lot better than this.
Does the water flow scare you? It was actually softer and smoother than baby shower.
The conference was over on Sunday evening, and as I couldn’t get a low fare plane out of Delhi on Monday, I decided to fly back on Tuesday, and spend Monday looking around Delhi.
I had taken a Pre Paid taxi from the airport in Delhi to Chanakyapuri, where Pondicherry State Guest House is, where I had preferred to stay. The accommodation was good enough. Well, where else would you get a room for Rs 400 a night? Well, this rate is only for the people who book from Pondicherry and have a Pondicherry address.
Managed to visit the Red Fort on Sunday evening itself, and thanks to the lighting conditions (and my deteriorating photography skills), none of the photos came out well.
I booked a tikcet with Panicker’s Travel who had a package that covers Agra Fort, Taj Mahal and the Lord Krishna temple at Mathura. Cost me 750 bucks. The volvo bus started at 6 am, and I had to wake up at 4 am and leave my hotel at around 5. I had a sweater over my shirt, a jerkin over the sweater, and a thick pair of jeans, and I was still shivering thru the auto rickshaw ride to the point of departure of the bus. I don’t know why it took so long, but we reached Agra fort only at around 11 AM, as I would have covered the distance of 200 km in about 3 hours time in a car.
I caught this model at the hotel where we had lunch. They say it is worth 5 lac rupees.
The south gate of The Taj Mahal
I was quite busy photographing this gate, and you may notice that the group with which I was has moved ahead of me. I went near them after a few pics, and listened to the things that the guide said about the place, and passed through the gate.
And this is what I saw when I passed through the gate. First it looked to me like a very high resolution image of the Taj Mahal displayed on the screen the size of the entrance. Well, I have seen the Taj only on photographs in the past. And this just looked to me as a super high resolution image to me. The lighting was perfect. Usually people enter through the west gate, but our guide took us through the south gate. I didn’t ask him the reason.
I strolled around for about 2 hours in there, tried to pay attention to detail, which I am not very good at, and shot as many photos as I could. I am used to taking photographs only with a camera with a view finder, and my year old Olympus digital camera has only got a screen and no view finder, and in the sun, I am unable to get the images clearly, and therefore none of the pics look professional.
Then we came out, went to Mathura, where after visiting the temple, I had a glass of milk. It tasted heavenly. Or perhaps there is a difference between south Indian milk and North Indian milk. But I just loved the taste.
Camera, mobiles or nothing that is electronic is allowed inside the mathura temple.
We left Mathura and reached Delhi by around 10 pm. Had dinner, and went straight to sleep and woke up only at around 10 o clock on tuesday morning. Packed up everything, and left the hotel at 2 pm, reached chennai at 8.30 pm, and reached Pondicherry at around 11 pm.
I was flying back from Delhi on the evening of the 10th of Feb, and was supposed to land in Chennai at around 7 pm, but thanks to the congestion at the Delhi airport, we took off only at around 5.30, and were high up in the skies at 7 pm. And at this time, I got to see one of the most beautiful sights that I have ever seen in my life. The sun was setting in the west, and the moon was rising in the east. A beautiful red ball rising out of the horizon.
Most airlines in India do not let you to take photos, but IndiGo did, and I did manage to take a few photos inside the aircraft. Check out my photo stream for more.
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And did I mention that my blog has been mentioned for the first time in its history on a popular newspaper in Delhi, a part of the India Today group called Mail Tdoay? Well, it had been, the day before Diwali. I had been busy for some time, and I couldnt update the blog about it. Here is the link to the article. The article is a stub, but still, I did manage to get a bit of traffic from it, and yes, it is a sign that my blog is getting popular. Why else would a journalist approach me and ask me for an interview?
Time was short, and I didn’t like any of the picutres that were taken, so just like the paper’s designers, I too decided not to print photos of mine.
. Im really a lot better than this.
