South Asia '08, part 11:Our last full day in Delhi

Yeah, right... we did go to India two months ago, didn't we? The night that I came back to Korea, it already seemed like a half-remembered dream.

Anyhow: an hour or so into the trip back from Agra, the train's engine blew out. We sat out on the tracks for at least two hours, the soldiers onboard walked back and forth between the cars, and another engine eventually arrived from Delhi. No one complained. We arrived at the station sometime near 2 a.m., and still the touts and taxi men had their hassle game on lock.

The next day began with a search for a digestive remedy for my Lady Friend, a late breaksfast, and arrangements for our ride to the airport the next afternoon. We debated whether to go to Qutb Minar, Humayun's tomb or other sites before heading to the Connaught Place markets. Qutb got cut and we hired an autorickshaw for the tomb, which, like the Agra Fort, was a feast of Mughal-period stylings. I spent so long wandering through the side gardens, living quarters and neglected masjids that I got one faraway photo of the actual tomb before I had to hightail it back to the parking lot.










Amelopsis, a name for this?
The full plant, to aid identification







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