Another world!

It's impossible to wait until the end of the week to write another post.. Today was the day where our perpesctive about the world has changed.. we tried to read about Delhi before starting the trip but everything we thought we knew, is different. The colors, the smell, the people..

The day started with us getting out of the hotel having no clue where we were going... turn right?! Left?! "Where do we get a map?" OK let's just walk a bit.. we walked a few steps and a guy starts offering to show us where to get maps and information about Delhi.. we thought it was nice but how does he know we need a map?!?! We started following him but at one point we got suspicious.. maybe because that doesn't happen in our country... suddenly another guy (from Nepal) offered his help as well and took us to the tourism office.. the day had just started but step by step everything was becoming more and more real!

After a long conversation and a great Masala Chai with the tourism guide we went on our first Indian Metro ride... obviously we ended up in a "women only carriage" with a guard screaming saying that Pedro couldn't be there.. other than that, the metro experience went pretty well! To be honest, the metro trains are way more developed than several that we've been before.

Our destination: Red Fort but Delhi is not about the destination, it's the path until the destination.. the metro exit was in the middle of a HUGE bazaar, full of people, everyone looking at us.. are we even in the right place?! If we stop and look at the map people will "attack" us, trying to suggest something or sell something. We just walked! It was a nice and confusing walk. People here in Delhi live in totally different conditions. Now, I think we know how poverty looks like but even going through the poorest neighborhood we've been so far, we never felt unsafe.

When we arrived to the Red Fort we faced what all the tourists in India face: tourist price... for a ticket that costs 60 rups ($1) to Indians, we had to pay 250 rups ($4) I guess it's something we will need to get used to! The fort was ok, we had to seat on the shade several times due to the really really strong sun... during our walk around the fort we had to go to the restrooms, usually going to the restroom is not really an event but this time, Pedro had his first experience with random people asking him to take a picture with themselves.. we also noticed that several people took pictures of us thinking we were not noticing.. we must be really good looking!! (Kidding)

After the fort we were planning to go to the Gandhi museum but the entrance was expensive and the heat was killing us.. we ended up deciding to get a tuk-tuk and visit the area around the hotel! During the LONG tuk-tuk trip, while stuck in traffic we realized that a girl wearing jeans shorts is not so common, 90% of man/women were staring at my awesome legs so we ended up deciding that buying some pants would be a good idea!

At the end we had a great day, full of new experiences and we believe that we learned a lot.

Oh I almost forgot.... A cow hit Pedro on his back!! It was really funny... we also saw other animals on the street like chickens and huge goats! It's a really different place!

We were not supposed to be describing this much but our excitement is telling us to write so we hope you enjoy!

Key words to describe the day:
- People; Noise; Heat; Smell

Have a good night,

Ready for the next day!
Kika & Pedro