Day 150 (Mon 4 Dec) - Sawai Madhophur / Delhi
Up very early to catch the 7am train back to Delhi.
We had reserved seats in the Chair class carriage. Very similar to the seats you get on planes!
We reckon that we have now covered most of the classes of train travel in India by now.
Arrived at Delhi's Nazrat Hizamuddin train station at about 1ish. Decided that it would be a good idea to sort out our visas for Vietnam so got a cab to the embassy.
The guard on duty informed us that the embassy opened at 2pm so we waited outside for half an hour or so. At 2pm Sarb asked the guard if we could go in and speak to someone about getting a visa. Ahh, so we needed a visa? The guard clearly now understood what we wanted to do and with a beaming smile informed us to come back at 4pm. Sarb tried to explain that we did not want to come back at 4pm, the embassy was now open and as such could we not go in and speak to someone now? The guard was having none of this so we retreated a little bit for a huddle and decided what to do.
In the end Jo went up to the guard and basically stood there in front of him until the guard broke down and phoned someone in the embassy. Jo spoke to the person at the other end of the line and in next to no time we were in the embassy and filling out the necessary forms. We had to return on Weds to pick up our passports and pay for the visas.
Got a taxi back to Pahar Ganj and the Airlines hotel where we spent the evening relaxing.
We had reserved seats in the Chair class carriage. Very similar to the seats you get on planes!
We reckon that we have now covered most of the classes of train travel in India by now.
Arrived at Delhi's Nazrat Hizamuddin train station at about 1ish. Decided that it would be a good idea to sort out our visas for Vietnam so got a cab to the embassy.
The guard on duty informed us that the embassy opened at 2pm so we waited outside for half an hour or so. At 2pm Sarb asked the guard if we could go in and speak to someone about getting a visa. Ahh, so we needed a visa? The guard clearly now understood what we wanted to do and with a beaming smile informed us to come back at 4pm. Sarb tried to explain that we did not want to come back at 4pm, the embassy was now open and as such could we not go in and speak to someone now? The guard was having none of this so we retreated a little bit for a huddle and decided what to do.
In the end Jo went up to the guard and basically stood there in front of him until the guard broke down and phoned someone in the embassy. Jo spoke to the person at the other end of the line and in next to no time we were in the embassy and filling out the necessary forms. We had to return on Weds to pick up our passports and pay for the visas.
Got a taxi back to Pahar Ganj and the Airlines hotel where we spent the evening relaxing.
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12/04/2006 01:08:00 pm
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