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ng s humid heat we went through security fine but then it went downhill from there we lost a chunk of money due to currency exchange fees and we went on a prepaid taxi service with a driver who didn t know how to get to our hotel at that point in our day we were still feeling somewhat adventurous and feeling that ounce of excitement of something so new different and unknown until the driver dropped us off in the middle of a busy intersection in old delhi he told us to make a left and walk for 5 minutes and that the hotel should be there we argued with him to drop us off in front of the hotel but he would have none of it he insisted taxis weren t allowed on that road we got frustrated and stepped out of the vehicle to grab our backpacks the stupid cabbie had the nerve to ask for tip we left him and kept walking before today i had never seen this kind of poverty kids running around the streets rickshaw taxis everywhere motorcycles tuc tuc taxis lots of stray dogs and men and many many more shameless stares and leers at us it made it really uncomfortable to walk through the area kids would run by and yell something at us street vendors would try to get our attention and sell us shit all senses were overstimulated by the sights sounds smell that sense of excitement quickly turned to fear we eventually ran into a couple of police officers after walking 10 minutes down that street they informed us that hotel broadway was a 15 to 20 minutes walk back the way we came so basically the taxi driver should ve told us to turn right and walk for 5 minutes we were not pleased after some heckling and such from people as they drove walked by we found the hotel oh there was also a security guard who took a photo of my female cousin with his cellphone camera as we walked by creep it s a hell of an experience so far i must say i m really starting to miss home now we ve only been in india for a few hours now and i find it quite mentally stressful already day 7 indian summer we woke up fairly early to pack a few things and plan our day it was decided that we would walk to connaught place since there are a lot more tourists in that area my cousin also decided to wear a nice dress with a thin sweater overtop to be less revealing but instead she built quite a fanbase for herself men and boys of all ages looked her up and down mainly down the women and girls also stared unlike north america though if you make eye contact they don t look away since we were chinese and pale skinned we obviously stood out from the crowd we got got many stares but my cousin got the most it was so bad it made all four of us uncomfortable we got lost a few times on the way but we reached the new delhi train station among the mostly dirty civilians we saw everywhere a strange clean and well dressed man approached us and spoke to my brother we decided to go with him as he told us he works in block n of connaught place and that block p where we were headed to was on the way he lead us into the metro and got us to block p what s funny was that he was on the phone quite frequently in the metro ride after he dropped us off and headed back to work another man approached us almost immediately and started talking to us he was just as friendly as the other man we told him what we were looking for and he lead us to the tourism centre i m 85 to 90 sure that those two men worked together to get us there and they probably collect commission from that tourism centre anyway after much inquiries and bartering we ended up with a complete 8 day tour of india this included a flight to kashmir then seeing the golden triangle tour from delhi to jaipur to agra then it s an overnight train to varanasi to see the ganges and ride elephants then another overnight train to kolkata to catch our flight to bangkok the price of the tour probably could ve been cheaper but us being from north america it was cheap in our standards in indian standards however we most likely got ripped off pretty damn good but still thanks to my brother the price was lowered significantly from the original this deal also included a day tour of old and new delhi for the rest of today we saw humayans tomb gandhi s smirt and ate at a touristy restaurant more expensive in indian standards we then went to see red fort and walked through the park where gandhi was cremated saw india gate and then drove by the president s palace of course our day was filled with shameless stares and heckling from beggars and vendors the sites were pretty nice the structures were historic and great and unlike anything i ve seen before the heat was pretty insane our driver told us that it was a really hot time of the year even him being a local was struggling to keep cool things i ve noticed was that the men pissed anywhere in public there were stray dogs everywhere the traffic was chaotic the men to women ratio was pretty ridiculous many of the locals thought we were japanese and would yell konichiwa at us we feared for my cousin quite a bit as we walked down the streets and we were still so uncomfortable everywhere we walked everytime i would see a foreign white person at some of the touristy areas a part of me wanted to run up to them and latch on to them permalink travel journal part 2 wednesday june 24 2009 7 54 am filed under china journal travel 0 comments i m home safe and sound after a month long trip i m still a little jetlagged as i keep passing out before 10pm and waking up early in the morning i m trying to find time to see what the damages were to my finances from this trip to unpack and to organize myself starting work right away and not giving myself time to recover from jetlag was a bit of a bad idea but still at least i have an income again here s the second part of the travel journal going to try and write what i can before i leave to get my braces taken off monumental day day 4 i can see clearly now the rain will come rain day 2 woke up at 7am we stayed the night and will be spending our nights at a relative s house in guang zhou as we were leaving there was a disgusting giant spider that came running across the kitchen i didn t see it alive as i was putting my shoes on but i saw our auntie kill it with her slipper and these giant legs the size of a tarantula all twitching and shit so nasty i couldn t stop thinking about it for the rest of the day we took a bus to go to this area of the city where it seemed a lot less run down there were more streetshops after walking around for a bit we went into this four story mall that sold nothing but glasses frames it was crazy how cheap everything was in guang zhou for the frames that i got i paid 85 rmb which amounts to roughly 14 usd i m going back there tomorrow to get the lenses fitted i think it ll be around 390 500 rmb 65 83 usd we ran a little late for lunch to meet up with more relatives we ate at a japanese barbecue restaurant owned by a japanese man but could also speak canto and mando it was much like the toronto korean barbecues but instead of a gas grill they used hot coals with a cross wire grill everything was uber delicious the relatives were great and very hospitable some i had never met before and a few others i hadn t seen in ten years after lunch our distant uncle took us to a driving range on our way there his driving was pretty insane he made his own lane drove onto oncoming traffic it felt like a rollercoaster thankfully we arrived alive to hit some golf balls into the wet grass as it was still drizzling a little afterwards we went out for dinner at mcdonald s with my mom s middle school friend whom i ve met once before i ve noticed in guang zhou that the police here is not intimidating at all except for the fact that they could be corrupt but that s all preconceived thoughts in terms of their uniforms and just looks they wore no bullet proof vests they seemed older and less fit and the uniforms in general were not that intimidating my cousin was much thicker than most of the officers there though i m sure they could still kick my ass another thing is the service here it s so efficient and great it s probably due to the fact that the employees are overstaffed because of cheap labour so they have to provide excellent service due to competition day 5 guang zhou rain city third day in gz and once again i wake up to the sound of rainfall i think it s been cemented in my head now that gz ponchoes and bicycles and rain go hand in hand i haven t truly missed home yet though i have thought about it a few times mainly due to the living conditions here it makes me think about how good we have it in north america i ve realized now that i m quite a princess for cleanliness i always thought i d be able to handle something like this since i ve always loved camping but i guess outdoors dirtiness in is a totally different kind of dirtiness from urban dirtiness but i think this is only the beginning as india i m sure will be much worse so i guess this will be a nice transition to get my prepared for what s to come the sky cleared up a bit as we stepped out to pick up our glasses but then started to pour again shortly after our auntie took us to this park where my parents went to on their first date at shamian park it was beautiful my dad s such a romantic heheh i wonder what it looked like back then the rain had dissipated by then making way for a beautiful view of the riverside though the water could have been less brown and murky it made me want to hear stores about the details of how my parents met i ve only heard a couple of stories we met up with my dad s cousin later and he treated us to a fancy dinner it was so good the service again was excellent we had a lot of fun in gz on this last day although i miss having showers i say this because i only showered one day while i was here because the heater wasn t working and also because you had to stand over the squatter toilet to shower the squatter toilet you have to manually pour water into it to flush and after a number 2 you can only imagine the type of smell that comes out of there like i said i m a bit of a princess when it comes to these things oh and gz was pretty hot too so the days i didn t shower i used a wet towel to wipe myself down instead we packed our backpacks after dinner and caught our flight to bangkok to lay over to india we didn t purchase out tickets beforehand and it s in the middle of the night so we have to wait until the next flight and purchase the tickets then we ll be flying air india i believe permalink travel journal part 1 monday june 1 2009 3 38 am filed under china hong kong journal travel 2 comments sine leaving for the trip for asia it s been really really fast paced and i haven t really had a chance to use internet all that much so i ve been writing in a journal to keep track of my observations and events i m just going to type it out here day 0 5 leaving on a jet plane i got to the airport 3 hours early since they say that you should do that for international flights i got to the airport at 6 40am and was checked in went through security and reached the waiting area by 6 55am it was quite a long wait from there lift off was at 10 30am and it was a rough flight over 15 5 hours of air time with 3 meals and barely any sleep i tried to drink some wine to put myself to sleep but no such luck so we watched movie after movie one of the movies was ip man starring donnie yuen amazing fight scenes highly emotional forget jet li and jacky chan day 1 hong kong we reached hk early in the morning local time the subway right from the airport to our hotel area was sweet it was so clean well maintained and lots of room ttc sucks compared to this we walked over to the south pacific hotel checked in and walked around while waiting for vincy to meet up wit us the hotel rooms were a tad small but pretty good for hk it was pretty humid and warm there cockroaches running around the sidewalk lots of people a few stares here and there but nothing too bad it really sucked we couldn t read the menu signs for dinner but at least we could speak and understand quite well free internet in the subway is awesome we were recommended a place by a friend called king s hotel and it was so weird it almost felt like a sex hotel it was one floor and no hallways as soon as you open the room door it s the lobby these rooms were all pimped out and the workers weresurprised to see the 4 of us walk in day 2 hk shopping we started the day by going to a cafe lounge for breakfast to use their complimentary computers we noticed that school uniforms are really ugly in hk we later met up with some friends and went shopping first stop was at uniqlo great clothing for a pretty cheap price felt like h m but a lot better though their t shirts are a bit too wide for my body shame i thought we had already adjusted to the time change since we didn t feel tired much but by 6pm it hit us hard we passed out from 6 30pm til 10 30pm then we were wide awake we went out to lang kwai fung to party it up with some foreigners it was pretty crazy lots of white people and cbcs lots of pubs lots of booze and drunkards we stayed out pretty late playing chinese drinking games our local hk friends taught us and drank the night away hk has an urban modern feel but at the same time very grungy almost like chinatown realy it s humid and hot and i ve decided i can t live here too many people and no sidewalk space it gets rather frustrating when you re in a hurry i can t even imagine what india will be like day 3 arrival to guang zhou rain we packed up our bags and went out for breakfast by 12 30pm we were on the bus to mainland china the coach was uber nice it was brand new with leather seats soft head cushions reclines 5 times more than a crappy greyhound coach would in north america funny how that works everything about that coach was superior it even has a side door in the back to let people in too only thing missing was a washroom the highways were filled with rather large billboard signs everywhere with large chinese fonts the billboards were at least twice the size of north american billboards it was overpowering guang zhou isn t what i remembered ten years ago i don t remember much of it from then to begin with just that there were a lot of constructions sites back then now it reminds me of hk with the modern tall high rises mixed with grungy old buildings everything is cheap here especially the food the girls are much cuter than hong kong girls for some reason hannah if you re reading this you re right about the toilets in china kinda gross permalink asiabound day 0 toronto wednesday may 20 2009 4 06 am filed under journal travel 1 comments it s 4am i m still up cleared all my photos from my camera all packed except for the stuff i need in the morning got my shots my pills my documents there was a mix of feelings between excitement and nervousness earlier but now i just feel too tired to feel either why bother sleeping when i have to be up in an hour an...