New Delhi Stories


The Final Destination

We arrived here and we are leaving from here. For them, back home and for me, back to Rishikesh where I will continue my yoga studies. The check-in was very challenging. The guy at the front desk was so confused. His excuse was there were three groups who checked in simultaneously. Wow, that will confuse someone with his job? Either he does not have eno...


Group Arrival to India

Sometime early last year, my students asked me to take them to India. Here we are. Ten of them joined me. Only one of them has been to India before for his work. Now we are all here with still another leg of the journey to arrive at our first final destination, Rishikesh. The itinerary is full of action packed activities starting with the Himalayas ...


24 hours of Delhi

I decided to fly back to Delhi instead of taking the minibus from Leh to Manali and then on to Haridwar because not only had I heard that the road was treacherous but the only reason to endure the 20 straight-hour journey to Manali (and then 17 more hours to Haridwar) is to see the views but the buses all left at midnight so I wouldn't get seeing much i...


INDIA: Land of Craziness

So after leaving New Zealand, the first country we (my team of 6) travelled to was India (after a nice layover in Singapore). We landed in New Delhi around 11pm and it was still 40 degrees Celcius! You can imagine what it was like during the day time. I think the temperature hovered around 45-48 degrees in the peak of day (48 C = 118 F). Besides being s...