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| Traffic Nightmare |
GABBY - Both Ben and I have no idea when this day started and the
last one ended, so we will just say January 2
nd started as we were
leaving the Mumbai airport. We finally
boarded our plane around 7:00 am after spending a sleepless overnight in the
airport. Both of us fell fast asleep after
we were safe and sound in our seats.
There’s something about sitting in an airplane seat that just puts you
to sleep. Maybe the flight attendants
secretly release some kind of anesthesia in the air so they don’t have to deal
with people. The flight wasn’t nearly
long enough for a sufficient sleep, but it was a nice nap. When we got off the plane we picked up our
luggage and found an airport taxi to take us to our hotel in the heart of
Bengalore. It was about a 40 km drive
from the airport to the hotel. I was not
expecting the cleanliness that I was struck with on our ride. The traffic was not terrible, the roads were
paved and there wasn’t that much garbage on the sides of the roads. 10 minutes later we hit the mayhem. Both Ben and I realized that there is about
an 8 km radius outside the airport that is clean and much nicer because the
airport is fairly new. The city of
Bengalore is still so far from the airport and hasn’t crept into its immediate
space yet. Once we were away from the
airport we hit serious traffic and experienced the famed India driving. Beeping is a totally normal act while you are
driving. If you do not beep your horn,
you will most likely be involved in an accident. When you beep, you are signaling to the other
cars that you are there; in India honking is sort of like a “Hey, how’s it
going” instead of an American “F*#K YOU!”
After many scared leg squeezes later, we reached Hotel 37 Crescent.
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| Best Indian food I have ever had! |
The staff was all incredibly warm and
friendly upon our arrival, collecting our bags and showing us to our room. We
couldn’t have asked for anything nicer.
The room was big with a comfy bed and free Wi-Fi! We were both exhausted, but our tummies won
the battle as we walked back downstairs to the Indian restaurant called Aromas
of the South. We gorged ourselves on the
buffet, which tasted delicious. Our
favorite thing was a creamy vegetable stew, which managed to be sweet and
savory all in one spoonful. We ate that
with freshly prepared spongy bread, like a pancake. We rolled ourselves back up to our room, in
our bed and under the covers for an afternoon snooze. We woke up for dinner and sampled the other
restaurant in the hotel, which was supposed to be Chinese. It was Chinese food, but had a very obvious
Indian influence. After our dinner, we
headed back to the room to enjoy our latest show of choice – Spartacus. After our show, we fell asleep for the night
in hopes of feeling rejuvenated again in the morning.
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