Delhi - 3 days.

19^th March

… Tock

Not to be found idling. We hopped out of bed early and had breakfast in the roof-top café of the hotel. There were plenty of back-packers hanging out upstairs. We got chatting to an English guy who had been travelling around India for nearly six months. We all of us were discussing Tibet. Unfortunately recent events had transpired that motivated the Chinese government to close the borders to the Tibetan plateau. Basically the eyes of the world had turned to watch the preparations for the up and coming Olympic Games in Beijing. Understandably, given they had the attention of the World’s media the Tibetans decided to use the opportunity to demonstrate against the Chinese occupation. Violence ensued. The media was suppressed in Lhasa. Nobody was going anywhere. I saluted the Tibetan people and wished them all the best. Unfortunately it meant we had to alter our plans somewhat.

Nonetheless we still had our visas for our next country of call to visit: Pakistan. We headed off in a rickshaw to the Pakistani Embassy to try and arrange our visas.

This turned out to be a little bit of a pain. We needed to obtain a letter of introduction from the British Embassy and we needed to surrender our passports for three days. Plus I was feeling very ill. We got the documents and headed back to the hotel and spent the rest of the day chilling.

20^th March.

… Tick(ish)

We headed to the British Embassy early and obtained the Letter of Intr
oduction for a mere twenty English pinds. Ouch! We then headed over to the Pakistani

Embassy to find them closed. We’d have to come back after the week-end. Next stop was to Delhi New Train Station to book ourselves on a train to Udaipur, in Rajasthan

We spent the rest of the day in bed. We had food ordered to our room for breakfast and lunch, we watched crap films on Star Movies – India’s

western film channel – and caught up on the news

on BBC World, and drank beer. That’s about it. It was a good day and the rest was sorely needed. We got up late in the evening and headed out for dinner on a rooftop restaurant close to our hotel.