We got off of the train at Delhi and made our way outside, on our way out about 4 people stopped us and asked to see our ticket, pretending to be some sort of inspector trying to scam us. As soon as we got out we were approached by countless drivers and tour operators hassling us for hotels. We walked down the main street looking for a hotel as we hadn't booked anything. There was loads of hotels but it was quite difficult as people would follow you into your hotel, say they brought you there then the hotel would pay them commission which we would then have to pay. This meant that we had to walk a bit, stop, turn around and try and lose people that were quite obviously trying to do this. One man in particular would not leave us alone, we lost him for about a minute then walked down a narrow street to a hotel but then he whizzed past us to get to the hotel first, we turned around again then told him to leave us alone and carried on looking. It took ages to find somewhere and we must of looked in about 10 places before we found a good one. We managed to get a nice big a/c room with big double bed, TV and WiFi in the room for about £7 per night.
We wondered out to get some lunch and went to a restaurant nearby. We sat near some drunk young Indian men that we stumbling all over the place, the waiter got them to leave, it was still about half eleven in the morning.
We were really tired after our night train and it was the first nice place we'd had in a while so decided to chill in the room for a bit before going out. On the TV we got to watch the last two Harry Potter films while we relaxed.
Later we wondered through town, we had to buy toilet roll as hotels in India don't give you toilet roll. We wondered through the shops along the main bazaar for a while and bought a couple of things. Delhi was cleaner than the last two places but was still horrible to walk around.
Delhi is a huge city, one of the biggest in the world, and all the sights are miles apart from one another. The metro network wasn't fully open yet so the only way around was by tuk tuk or taxi so we decided to do a one day city tour the next day which only cost 300 rupees, cheaper than what we'd pay for a tuk tuk.
That night we managed to watch life of pi on TV before going to bed.
The next day we were picked up half an hour late for our tour and got on a bus with loads of other Indian tourists, the tour guides English wasn't good so it was just like a transfer service but we didn't mind that. First we went to a big Hindu temple which was very nice, we had to leave all our cameras phones and shoes in a locker as they weren't allowed in. On our way out the security guard opened the doors for us then asked for a tip.
After this we went to a memorial for a politician, it wasn't very interesting, again no cameras or anything were allowed. Next we went to the parliament buildings which were nice apart from the viewing area was caked in manure for some reason. We got an ice lolly as it was very hot which were 4p each. We also visited the mahatma Ghandi memorial which is where he was cremated. We also saw the fort, the gateway to India and a few other of the main things to see in Delhi. It took ages to get anywhere on the roads in Delhi, the traffic was ridiculous and most of the time we were at a standstill.
We were quite tired by the end of the trip, we were out for about 9 hours so decided to order room service in the hotel, we ordered curry and chappattis which only came to a couple of pounds but was nice to just not move and eat in the room. We had an early night because we had an early train the next day, we went to pay our bills and as is usual in India, they added stuff to our bill, they said things were more expensive than what they were etc, then when we settled on the amount they didn't have any change, apparently. So we tried to pay exact or as near to but they still didn't seem to have 3 rupees change. Its stupid that they think we would believe a hotel doesn't have any change whatsoever just so they can scam anything out of us. Even though things have a maximum retail price (by law everything has to have one printed on) they will still tell you it is more than that, then short change you as well.
The next morning we got a tuk tuk to the station where we had to wait about an hour. The station stunk like crap, we didn't even want to breathe because it stunk that bad, there was rubbish and crap everywhere it was really disgusting. When we got on the train the seats were numbered but there was not any sense to how they were numbered, rather than numbering them simply in order, they went zig zag across rows and started from the aisle so they went 2,1,4,3,6,5,8,7,9 etc this meant that even though we had seats 13 & 14 we were sat on different sides and different rows. Nothing seems to be straight forward or logical in India, even something as easy as numbering seats is always done a strange way.
When we set off, we had a lovely view out of our window of countless people taking dumps on the tracks right next to the train, and also a dead body laid across the tracks, mangled from being run over by trains, hardly one of the worlds great railway journeys.