Out of Delhi

So... I'm leaving Delhi for the first time in a week and a half. I can't say that it's not a relief! I've been frustrated and amazed by the conflicting surge of emotions that this and any big city has evoked in me. I've been hugely frustrated by the neon dollar sign that seems to flashing over my head, giving license to all sorts of bare-faced cheeky attempts to swindle me out of my cash, amazed by the monuments and markets, food and massiveness of this place. Shocked by some of the poverty and destitution, families living in tents along side their work place... often just a stretch of pavement they are laying in time for the Commonwealth Games, amazed by the little violence, ill temper, anger that I have seen in the face of such things... and left with a pressing wonder of why and how... a wonder that I'm not sure I'll get an answer to but I'm going to enjoy trying.

I'm off to Agra today, home of the Taj Mahal... looking forward to that one... then back to this crazy city before heading off to Udaipur on Monday where I will be visiting an NGO called Seva Mandir, I can't wait for this. It will be very different from Delhi I am sure, and I hope... although I expect the conflicting emotions will carry me through most of India.

Anyhows, off to catch a train, that's going to be fun!!!

(New photos on Flickr (see link in earlier post), not many, more to come though!)