Delhi. Not that bad!
Everything I expected it to be - crowded, noisy, hot, chaotic - but not terrible, and I actually enjoyed myself. Learnt the driving rules in the taxi from the airport. Adapted from Fast & Furious or something similar I imagine. He who dares wins irrespective of size, bonus points for extensive use of horn, points lost for length of time spent with your vehicle completely within a lane, points gained for length of time driving in monsoon rains without windscreen wipers and instant forfeit if you decide to defog your windscreen to allow you to see out (cheating). Hotel was on a road taxis don't like to go down (narrow and chaotic even by Delhi standards) so he brought us to a rickshaw stand but we (proud backbackers!) decided to walk. In the monsoon, in the mud, amidst the chaos, getting slightly damp and looking great as the doorman let us into the shiny, marbly hotel lobby. And in the great country of contrasts that is India we found ourselves in an ultra-modern James Bo