Wow, I didn't expect this.
This morning nepali time 8:30 I went from Bhaktapur to Kathmandu to the airport, flew from 12:00 to 13:30 to Delhi - first stop - and had quite a bad experience in Delhi. Everything looked very modern and made me think the people are organized there. Big mistake. First I had to check out my luggage and check it in again myself to Bangalore, my final destination. That was a little complicating, because everything took very long, queueing everywhere not even knowing for what and it wasn't clear where to go and what to do and every staff person said something else. Asking for the right direction ended in going one time all around a big Hall ending up where I started.
Then I couldn't even pay with nepali rupees or not even change them at the changing bureau!! Even though it's the neighbour country and the currency has almost the same name (nepali rupees - Indian rupees).
And according to the Internet the guy at the money changing desk (in the end I changed Euro) gave me a way too low rate.
Well, but then after this experience and the second flight (16:35-19:20), very easy luxury flight, I didn't expect the following:
I arrive in Bangalore at 19:40, first of all I'm again surprised how modern the airport is, luggage immediately there, no passport controle (probably because it's no international airport and I've only ever been to international ones before) and I'm out of the airport within a few minutes! Amazing. Then it goes on. The driver from the hotel is waiting actually with my name up in the air infront of the airport and picks me up with a car I can't even describe. So luxury! And then the motorway is so modern, so first-world-like. Looked like europe. I couldn't believe my eyes. I had expected it to be like in Ghana and Nepal, but no...
Well and now I'm lying on my hotel bed and waiting for my mother and brother, who are arriving in 4 hours.
The hotel is nice, but luckily a bit more 'normal'. Would have been too much, if that was super deluxe now as well. Haha
This morning nepali time 8:30 I went from Bhaktapur to Kathmandu to the airport, flew from 12:00 to 13:30 to Delhi - first stop - and had quite a bad experience in Delhi. Everything looked very modern and made me think the people are organized there. Big mistake. First I had to check out my luggage and check it in again myself to Bangalore, my final destination. That was a little complicating, because everything took very long, queueing everywhere not even knowing for what and it wasn't clear where to go and what to do and every staff person said something else. Asking for the right direction ended in going one time all around a big Hall ending up where I started.
Then I couldn't even pay with nepali rupees or not even change them at the changing bureau!! Even though it's the neighbour country and the currency has almost the same name (nepali rupees - Indian rupees).
And according to the Internet the guy at the money changing desk (in the end I changed Euro) gave me a way too low rate.
Well, but then after this experience and the second flight (16:35-19:20), very easy luxury flight, I didn't expect the following:
I arrive in Bangalore at 19:40, first of all I'm again surprised how modern the airport is, luggage immediately there, no passport controle (probably because it's no international airport and I've only ever been to international ones before) and I'm out of the airport within a few minutes! Amazing. Then it goes on. The driver from the hotel is waiting actually with my name up in the air infront of the airport and picks me up with a car I can't even describe. So luxury! And then the motorway is so modern, so first-world-like. Looked like europe. I couldn't believe my eyes. I had expected it to be like in Ghana and Nepal, but no...
Well and now I'm lying on my hotel bed and waiting for my mother and brother, who are arriving in 4 hours.
The hotel is nice, but luckily a bit more 'normal'. Would have been too much, if that was super deluxe now as well. Haha
Hallo Livia, ich sitze gerade gemütlich beim Frühstück in der ersten Welt, alles sehr organisiert hier, und ich schaue mir deine Bilder aus Nepal an. Sehr, sehr schön, da könnte ich gleich in den Flieger steigen. Viel Spaß auch weiterhin in Indien, Lothar (und Ruth und Luis in Abwesenheit)
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