Then, hopefully I had my boules Quies to find some peaceful sleep, cause around midnight there are still horns blowing from the street !
The matress is about 5 cm large, and designed for 1m60 people but even though, I had a good night sleeping in diagonale. The clothe I washed were already dry, cool !
Next morning, I wake up late 10 am, have breakfast meeting at Everest restaurant the same travellers as the day ago.
Then my plan was to go to Connaught place, very touristical area where the official tourist office is, but I've been caught by a Kashmere guy, and I decided to talk to him 5 min, there drinking Chai ( tea with a bit of milk, the common drink in India ) there were some german toursits the man knew, he proposed me to bring me to a place with music, anyway he had to go there for his pray as he is moslem. So I took a rickshaw with Guzar to Nizamaddin's shrine, a mosquee located in a muslem area. Anyway it is just next to Humayan's tomb I had planned to visit too...
So I ve been to this place that looks like a Souk, removed my shoes to enter the religious area, here some tombs a crowd of muslem people that came here to put some flowers on the tomb, here also there are lots of beggers, most of them are children.
I met some french guy I talked too, he proposed to have a coffee later in Pahaar Ganj. Walking around while Guzar was at his pray, I found a quite nice garden where people were sleeping and young children playing cricket.
I stayed a little while. Then back to the shrine, there were indeed some music players and singers playing religious songs, it was quite nice, there was percussions and an organ-piano with a pump just like an accordeon.
Finally I had lunch with Guzar who tried once again to convince me to go to Kashmere with him. But I don't think so, I don't have time anyway or I would have to change my plans... I said I would tell me tomorrow if I meet him in the street.
Then I walked to Humayan's tomb which is a wonderful and quiet place. No beggers here only tourists, and not so many, there are grass areas very very big, and it is nice to walk there and to have a little rest on the grass.
The tomb itself made me think about Taj Mahal as the architecture is similar, but Taj Mahal seems to be bigger ( I will see... )
Then going out from the place, I talked to 2 belgian tourists laying on the gras, proposing to shaer the drive back to Connaught and Pahaar Ganj. They were nice, actually it is good to hear travellers experiences of India, good information to have before going by myself !
Then a quick shower and meeting in Connaught place with Dhruv from hospitality club, his roomate Antonia, a french girl working for an ONG near in Delhi, a Czech guy, a bulgarian girl called Crassie and her indian travel companion Amano, bot fond of Osho philosophy.
We have a drink and some dinner in a bar called Blues, typically inspired from an occidental pub, with loud music, almost saturated, pop/rock from the eighties/nineties....
It was fun. Dhruv is a clothe designer working for H&M, he is very stylish and seems to be a bit cynical, but very easy going and very nice.
Then Dhruv drove me back near Pahaar Ganj, I just walked a few hundred meters to Main Bazar, people were sleeping on the pavement without anything, poverty is everywhere here and is very strong too.
Yesterday, one child begged me as I was in a rickshaw, the poor guy had one foot only, it was hard, but I decided not giving anything, thinking it is encouraging begging, and more mothers to mutilate their children to inspire tourists'pity ( which is crualry the case in India )
Then here I am in the same internet point than yesterday, before going back to the hotel.
Thinking about taking the train tomorrow to Jaizelmeer maybe ( 20 hours train ) and going back through Jodhpur, Ajmer, Pushkar and Udaipur for the next days ( it would take me maybe 10 days such a trip...
I m thinking about burning pictures on the cds I ve brought, but will try to find a better internet connection in Connaught tomorrow morning while I go ( hopefully ) to the tourist office ....
I don't understand why people cannot leave comments on this blog, but I did some changes, maybe it is working now !
Some other person told me today I look like Rahul Gandhi, let's have a look now....
http://images.google.co.in/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=rahul+gandhi&sa=N&tab=wi
