New Delhi, August 7-9, 2017.
August 7.
We woke up early the next morning to head to the Pune airport to catch our flight to New Delhi, way up in the north. It's about a 3-1/2-hour flight, spanning a couple hundred miles. India doesn't look that big on a map, but it is quite large. And I'm from the US, which is still larger. I think the Europeans were probably a bit more shocked at the size, since Spain is about the size of Texas, and again, Americans have a much different concept on large-ness, since we really do have so. much. space. here that we don't even realize it most of the time.
Anyway, for reference:
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| Pune is just east of Mumbai, and New Delhi is in the state of Delhi right between the states of Haryana to the West and Uttar Pradesh to the East. |
We landed in New Delhi, and the climate changed dramatically. There was a perpetual gray haze (I actually typed out "graze" because I basically made up a word to describe what it was) with a stifling humidity, with temperatures in the mid-90s (low-40s if you're a Celsius person like most of the world). Now, I love me some humidity. Like, people actually make fun of me because of how much I love it. And even I got to thinking the humidity in New Delhi was a bit much, and we got to stand around for an hour waiting for our tour bus to show up, only to have it be too small for all our luggage (we replaced it the next day). The bus had air conditioning, and we were all happy campers.
I still love humidity though, and will still take August in New Delhi weather over freezing blizzards any day of the year.
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| What it looks like to fly from Pune to New Delhi. |
