BBP wrote:Gorgeous pics Tawm! What an amazing place!
I will give it that - India has some beautiful places. The weather makes it rough to go see it (we were near a place called The 7 Tombs, when we were near the fort, but after the hike up to the fort, we were - no joke - soaked in sweat... our clothes were as wet as if we had been sitting in a pool for hours wearing them)... so we opted to return to the hotel and shower, and crash out... We never made it back around to the 7 Tombs.
Rath Darkblade wrote:Wonderful pictures, Tawm. I particularly like the shots of the Charminar - I've seen that place before several times.
I need to rest and recharge a bit before I can put up some photos of my own. The flight there was nearly 36 hours, and the flight back was 26 hours (with hardly any sleep)... so I am mightily jetlagged. Not a good feeling when you want to go to bed in the middle of the day.
Thank you! Charminar was amazing; but the drive there (we had the hotel drive us) was intense. It was 20 miles away, but took 1.5 hours to get to, because traffic does not move. And in India, the lanes on the road are senseless; because where I am used to motorcycles splitting lanes in California, in India, cars do it too. If you can fit your vehicle, whether it be motorcycle, scooter, bicycle, car, bus or even truck - between any space on the road, it's apparently 100% legal to try... and everyone honks - non stop - non freaking stop - all the time, all hours into the night (I was on the 19th floor of my hotel and heard cars honking all night, into 3am...)
So, while there's so much I'd like to see - and had a good experience, over all, there's no way I'd probably go back again, on my own, if work wasn't paying to send me.
I understand the jet lag, too. Our flight back was 28 hours.
But to be fair, I did fly business class. So there was some comfort there.
Qbix wrote:Welcomde back!
Thank you! Glad to be home!
