Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Amazing with a capital A!!

I am having such an amazing time and had so many experiences too numerous to recount. I don't know where to start!
I have seen incredible sites. The sheer amount of poverty is mind blowing. Seeing so many people and children, desperate and begging on the streets is heart wrenching. Street children run in between cars trying to get money by selling papers for pennies. They walk in the roads and hang on cars and buses, risking their lives, daily. Mums with crying and sleeping babies walk alongside anybody hoping for money.
We have done so much in such a short space of time. We have visited the red fort(alongside hundreds of Indian school children!), India Gate, the Taj Mahal which was amazing. We have had some lovely meals out and seen the contrast of the poor and rich. There are some lovely restaurants in Delhi but its really hard walking into a 5* hotel when you have a 4 year old street boy begging for money. It's a real emotional roller coaster.
Riding around Delhi in a rickshaw is a real experience- fun but life risking!! There doesn't appear to be many rules on the road and it is common for up to 6 vehicles to be spread along 3 lanes!

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