Danhauser Travel Blogs

  10/20/24– The dawn of another trip is upon us as we soon embark for our journey home. A true bitter-sweet moment as my mind would love to do more but my body has said enough is enough. We’ve seen temples, tombs, backdrops from movies and some weird, crazy crap that you just have to witness to believe, but overall I feel very good with how it all went down. Our hotel can’t give a true answer on how long a late check-out could be, so we book another hotel next to the airport. Even though we won’t be staying the night, having a place to relax in until 9pm or so seems more than ideal… and for only $22.95 USD (with my discount). I consider going out this morning, but it’s very smoggy and feel I’ve done enough (even though there is more to explore in Delhi that looks interesting). We check-out at 11am, pay the bill and get an Uber XL to take us to Hotel Shanti Palace (we actually have luggage space). It takes only twenty-five minutes, however, there seems to be quite a bit of ...

  10/19/24– Wow, we get over ten hours of sleep and feel ready to tackle our last city of Delhi. Breakfast is more simplistic then previous stays but still enough to get us a good start and take a few pastries with us. Of course the lady at the next table is coughing quite a bit. The sickness is trying its hardest but somehow we keep dodging. Did I mention our hotel is yellow? Our first place we want to go to is the Qutub Minar. Mostly built around 1199, this tower is part of several historically significant monuments in the complex. It takes forty minutes by Uber to get here and the ride itself cost us only $3.25. I don’t know how these drivers make any money but I definitely doubled the fare in a tip. We get dropped off at the wrong gate and walk around to the ticket counter. There’s a line forming to get in, but since we are in the foreign line we are able to get right through (foreigners pay quite a bit more than locals). They hand us a token to scan at the gate and soon...

  10/18/24– These few weeks just flew by it seems. At points it went by slow and then suddenly it’s time to check-in to another hotel. Today is no different as we have a pre-booked pickup scheduled for noon today to drive us to Delhi. The breakfast is as nice as before, however we stay away from any Indian dishes before the road trip just in case. That also means no cappuccino. When we get back to our floor we find our room key no longer works, yet we are still two hours from check-out. Luckily there’s a worker on the floor who lets us in without having to go to reception. Noon is almost here and our driver is already waiting, which is a very good sign, and guess what? Our luggage fits “inside” the car. Of course only one in the trunk and the other in the front seat, but still. Win! The drive is supposed to be three hours, and we seem to be making pretty good time until we get to Delhi. Suddenly I see the time add ten minutes and realize we are going the wrong direction. K...