India Trip 2013 - Part 9 (back to New Delhi via Jaipur)

Raji, Navin, Inchara, and Harsha left at 4AM for Jodhpur and made good headway. Navin, as a result decided to add a trip to Mehrangarh Fort to their agenda. He wanted to zip line, but the group proved too timid without its backbone, me! After seeing the fort, they caught their flight and arrived in Bombay to find that their flight to Bangalore was delayed by several hours. The team decided to extend their vacation by going to Juhu Beach. When they finally arrived home, it was nearly midnight.

With Mohan back in New Delhi

The three of us left at 5AM, on time, and made good time. Our driver, named Mohan, was friendly and we felt comfortable conversing with him and we learned a lot about him and his family during the long drive. Since we were in an Innova we made up so much time that we were in Jodhpur around the same time Naveen and the rest were heading to the fort. For a few minutes, we thought of joining them at the fort, but we knew how far we still had to travel and we continued further to Jaipur. The roads were smooth and we made it to Devi Niketan at 3PM as expected. We picked up our passports from the Admiral and said our goodbyes again and made one detour before heading back to New Delhi. Jannavi purchased some saris and suits from a local store. With me pressing her to make purchases really fast, she is confident that the seller over-over-over charged us! She says she will never go shopping with me. Wish I were that lucky! We left Jaipur around 5PM and found that most of the road was dug up and being rebuilt. As a result the 3 hour road trip ended up being 6 hour road trip. When we reached the B&B, it was past 11PM.

Good night, we have a packed agenda for the next day.