Dirty and sweaty

We arrived in India on Sat and went straight into the Delhi traffic. Hot, smelly, dusty and noisy. The reasonable hotel we were staying in was a bit of a refuge and in the evening we walked around the busy Pahar Ganj market and also around Connaught Pl where we were shocked to see a Costa coffee which we had to visit and discover it was exactly the same as anywhere else, Mei was excited. She was less excited about Delhi itself, she really doesn't like it and thinks it might even be worse than Djibouti.

Next day we join a badly air-conditioned bus full of Indian tourists for a trip around Delhi. Stopped at the main sights like Bahai temple and Gandhi cremation site and parliament house. We thought it was funny that the Indian tourists wanted us in their photos but we went along with it. Lunch was tasty but sloppy with suspicious hygiene.

Next day i wake at 5am with explosive bottom, followed by chills and sweats and fever and fainting and lots of agony. Mei went to get a doctor after a few hours of destroying the bathroom but the hotel receptionist just gave her a tablet to give me and said i would be fine. I wasn't fine and the pain continued into the next day, a "real" doctor who was staying in the hotel appeared and gave me lots of "real" drugs and over the next 24 hours i improved to the point i could stand up and eat a piece of toast...yippee. Mei bought 2 plane tickets to Kathmandu to escape the horrors of Delhi and 2 days trapped in the hotel and somehow we made it here.

Kathmandu is pretty cool, still smelly and busy and dirty but in a chilled out way. We're leaving on an 18 day trek around the Annapurna range tomorrow, we managed to buy all sorts of prescription only anti-biotics over the counter so any more bugs that get us will be met head on. This trip might be a bit early considering Mei hasn't exactly had the healthiest belly since we've been here but we'll see how we go.

Lots of blackouts here which make things interesting. We just had our first beer of the trip, a large bottle of "Everest lager", couldn't be anything else really.

Nepal seems to be the place USB connections forgot so can't publish any pictures, maybe when we get back to the world leading IT power of India it will be better.