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| 9/2008
My trip to Delhi
Frantz Kafka in his plays, tried to bring the absurd into an art. Jerom K Jerome wrote about the mischief in traveling, and both end up predicting my preperations and travel to Delhi, India.
after almost loosing my passport in the mail, got my wallet stolen, didnt buy traveller checks,and packed in the last hours, I thought my trubles were over. but fath keep tument me further.
I arrived on sunday morning in 6:20 to the tel aviv railway station. we should of kick of around 6:45 but the man from the travel agency who should come and check the names didnt show up since he over slept... we left late, and during a coffee brake in the izrael valley I bought a medical insurence via cell phone and in the border terminal I bought a digital camera. the same one that meital recomended. it cost 1000 nis but meital know someone that sell them in 700...I didnt have time... when we wanted to go, we waited in the terminal for 3 girls who work there and wanted to cross the border with us. the security woman decided to held us for another 30 minets because she is "holechet im harosh ba kir" bitch.
we stuck in the jordanian side more time and then went into a jordanian bus who drove between 20-40 km/hour through a god forsaken desolence with a scrumble of poorly built houses here and there. after one hour thr road to Aman had started.
steep and slow ascent with many trucks that passing by our slow bus. to Aman airport we arrived in 2:45 when the flight to Baharein scedualded to 4 oclock. I had to pay 30 US$ for getting VIP treatment and I got a man from the airport stuff who smugled me through the qeues safly.
okay
flight to Baharein went good and I wondered around the airport (which is huge). I found in the dutyfree the same camera I bought (in 280$) in a Ramadan sale in 230US$. thats made me a bit sad, and I start to play with the camera ( its quite easy and nice. altough the manual mode is raugh for the unproffesional photogropher.
in midnight( 5 and a half hours after reaching Baharein) we borded the airplan. it was hot and humid like in hell (not that I know if hell is humid) and the AC in the plan did not work well. the plan's engines didnt work, and for two hours we set on our behinds while the mechanical staff work on the engine. the plane stuff served us water. after 2 hours of a steam bath, we were aloud to evacuate the airplan.
one Israeli girl fainted after having an anxiaty attack and some of us stayed with her until she'd recovered. only in 3 o'clock AM we fly to Delhi. Delhi wasnt so humide after expiriencing Jordan and Baharein. we arrived in delhi at 9:30 Am, ie 26 hours all together).
now Im in Delhi, and Im planning to move to Manali and start orginizing for the across Zanskar trek ( hopefully without snowing).
I have to find ponyman, ponnies, trek companions, fuel,food and supply.
see you soon
Oded
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