Arrived in India

India. Our journey through Asia finally starts here. The arrival in Delhi was quite a shock after Iceland. Everything opposes India to Iceland : the crowd, the dirt, the ''pure water''... The gap between those two places is probably the widest you can find.

It needs some time to adapt to India, to the mass and to the mess. The first steps in Delhi are like a straight jump in cold water. Except here is boiling hot. We have seen too much in three days here to speak about everything. We had long walks through very different type of districts. Some that transpires misery and some more fancy, and they usually juxtapose to each others. In our district we saw different kind of animals, from the homeless dog to the peaceful cow, and also some small wild boars digging in the garbage. We got lost in the bazaars while monkeys were climbing the high shady walls. We went through the maze of a souk, until we arrived (after a thousand of hypnotic turns) to a beautiful hidden mosque where we attended to a sufi ceremony. Finally we escaped from the crowd by entering the beautiful historical places of Delhi (Qutub Minar, the Red Fort, and the sumptuous Tomb of Humayun).

But the real adventure is also in the nose. Every meter you walk, a new smell you discover. Some more pleasant than other. Spices, incense, fried anything, goat, and much worse things. But I can't write about the smell without speaking about the taste. From the street food to the proper restaurant everything we have tried in those three days have been just pure pleasure. Even if spicy food makes you sweat. My favorite one was hidden in a small yard in a bazaar of Old Delhi. You just have to take the seat they give you, pick something in the menu and enjoy!

Today we left Delhi. Not a bad thing, this city is heavily exhausting. We said goodbye to our very helpful host and we took the train to Amristar, in Punjab, seeking for the Sikhs...