Subject: Post: <p>Today the day was just spent taking care of future plans and seeing a bit of Delhi. In the morning we moved to much decent hotel just around the corner from the previous one, managed our train tickets to Agra and Jaipur and so on.</p><p>Trying to visit the train ticket booking office at the railway station was again quite a challenge. The local mafia loves to cheat tourists with different kind of scams related to the tourist train ticket booking office, and the authorities are not doing much else than adding signs to the station wall telling that the tourist office IS open, IS located in the station building, the staff is NOT abducted by aliens and so on.</p><p>This time we were again approached by a "police officer" "guarding" the train station parking area and demanding to see our train tickets, telling that tickets would be available from the "tourist office" across the street. Well, he gave up right after I told him we have seen too many of that kinda jokes..</p><p>Concerning the continuous salesmen, taxi drivers, beggers and every other scumbag lifeform, I have just started using Finnish. "Juokse perseeseen" is really effective, much more effective than "No, no thank you" in English. :P</p><p>We also met a local couchsurfer today and he took us to see some things around Delhi. We started with Swaminarayan Akshardham, the largest Hindu temple in the world, and unfortunately there is not pictures from the temple as ALL electronic devices starting from pen drives were forbidden at the site. The temple was not a historical one, but built about ten years ago. Impressive it still was. Lodhi garden and Dilli Haat market were also briefly explored. </p><p>Delhi is much more hot than Mumbai by the way. Daytime temperature climbed to lovely 40C, and even now at late evening we are at stable 30C. And as it is still the monsoon season, it's also humid like in sauna..</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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