The Journey continues to Delhi

2:37

We finally arrived in Delhi. Our plane was much bigger than the first one. The seats we had were separated but the person who would have sat between us didn’t come and finally we had three seats for the two of us. We left with a 40 minute delay of which we could only make up 30 minutes until we arrived in India. We had two meals on board, dinner was something Indian which tasted quite good (except for some strange mango thing which neither of us finished) and around 11pm we got another snack that was something like dürüm. I slept a bit and listened to the radio. They showed Pirates of The Caribbean On Stranger Tides on the screen but I gave up concentrating on Johnny Depp’s voice and had another nap. Later on I watched an Indian film which was supposed to be funny but actually wasn’t (according to me). It had subtitles and the main character spoke a mix of Hindi and English. I sometimes couldn’t tell which language she was talking in at the moment.

When we landed in Delhi, we had just come out of a thunderstorm we were told that it was 32°C outside which sounded quite ridiculous because in the airplane it was really cold. Luckily we were directly led into the airport and didn’t taste any Indian air at first.

We were standing in the queue for the passport checks when an Indian asked me for my pen. He asked in German, which surprised me and when we came to talk a bit, we found out that he studies German and just came back from a trip to Germany.
It took ages until we had our luggage back and it took even longer to change money because we had to count it again and again. Which was a good thing because they would have given us 500 rupees less. After another two checkpoints we reached the exit and were welcomed by a WeltWeitWandern sign. The rest of the group was already there, except for one woman who had gone to the doctor because of her eyes. Hopefully she’ll be able to follow us tomorrow.

Our guide showed us the way to the national flight hall, gave us our tickets and a tent and left us. We’ll meet him again when we come back to Delhi. We shortly went outside the hall and were overwhelmed by 32°C and a very high humidity. Everyone was happy to get back to the cold airport hall.

we didn't check whether the walking time was right

Now we’re resting in the hall and waiting for our flights to Leh (there are two flights at the same time and we were separated because this way everyone can have a window seat on the left hand side). We will be leaving at 5:45 am lots of time until then!

4:45 am

The airport WiFi doesn’t work what is kind of annoying. It should send a text message with a user name and password to your mobile phone but I don’t get that text... At least there is a charging station here next to the gate.

It is really strange to go to a duty free shop in Delhi and find products as Toblerone, Rittersport and Swarovski. I expected McDonalds but not Toblerone! Hopefully we won’t meet so many European brands in Ladakh. If I am in Asia, I don’t want to buy German chocolate!