Rubinations…

'nuf said

Liz you should be so lucky to have me build a tomb like this for you.

Fama Masjid
Fetehpuhr Sikri
Agra Fort

Well our second trip snafu (after our night in the airport).

We got to Jaipur and found that our web travel agent hadn’t actually booked us a room at the Narain Niwas Hotel (it looked quite beautiful for the 10 minutes we were there). To this day we are still unsure if it was some kind of scam that the hotels have, but they told us their sister hotel the Naila Bagh had availability if we were interested in staying there (as opposed to sleeping on the lawn).  Unfortunately, our driver had already left, so we had no way of telling him that we were switching hotels.  This meant that first thing the next morning I had to race back to the Narain Niwas to catch our driver (Rajendra Singh +9968120198 (he will take you to some restaurants he gets kickbacks at but otherwise he is a good guy)).

Over the next 3 nights we would end up in 3 different rooms at the Naila Bagh (all lovely), have a few late nights drinking with the owner, his wife, his son (Vikram Singh who races motocross in Dubai) and his son’s wife.

I still have a lot of typing to do but we saw:
Amber Fort
City Palace
Temple of Winds

Our two days in Delhi were crazy. I’m working on getting the pictures up but in a quick 2 full days we saw:
  Red Fort
  Old Delhi
  Humanyum’s Tomb
  Lotus Temple
  Qutb Minar

Unfortunately the poverty in Delhi is really overwhelming.  In retrospect (back blogging) Delhi really was the poorest of all the cities we visited.

The first day of our honeymoon is off to an inauspicious start.

We were originally flying BA (on James’ miles) business class to London. But because of a flight time change we had to cancel those flights and fly coach at an earlier time. The result was we got to spend a day on the floor in Heathrow. Due to timing issues we couldn’t even get into the lounge to wait the 18 hours until our connection to India.

Hopefully it’s uphill from here!

Flight from LHR to Delhi was uneventful and we finally arrived in India on Dec. 24th ready to start our Honeymoon!

Liz and I are heading to India for our honeymoon. Leaving on 12/22/2006 and returning 1/10/07. It will be a whirlwind trip including:
New Delhi : 12/24/06
Jaipur : 12/26/06
Agra : 12/28/06
Goa : 12/31/06
Mumbai : 1/4/07
The Maldives : 1/5/07

We are starting off staying in guest houses and stepping up the quality as the trip progresses ending in the luxury of the 4 Seasons in the Maldives.

I’m working on finishing the posts from the trip now. But you can see all the pictures using this link.