Kolkata - Departure.
'm still here;). As usual, small adventures with the Indian Railways (though how these scales, and so everything works great here. Well, have they even turn a separate ministry. And apparently the world's second employer). 3 times changed the ticket, finally jade 'healthy' (because no air conditioning) sleeper at 16.00.
plan for the next day: tea and rain.
first objective: to get to Maghalaya (a province north-east, The Abode of Clouds), the 'most wet places on earth';). Later
Assam and slowly back - Darjeeling and surrounding areas.
And at the end of August a few comfortable days in Calcutta. You have to get your hands dirty ;). Already socket musts - I found a nice hotel for 300Rs, dark bar piwno - vodka (no mention of some fiu-bzdiu meals), in which waiters running around in white shirts and a good Internet café. This is for a few days.
far I have tested kalkuckie street eats. That probably will be my most missed in Poland. Today's lunch: masala dosa (pancake filled with super-slim combination of cooked vegetables, raw onion, fresh cilantro and a mixture of spices) rupees 1918 only. Typically (in the 'organic' glinanej czarce Rupees three only). All freshly cooked, decorated with a short but informative monsoon attack:).
Calcutta. City.
impressed me a good impression right from the arrival (the whole time compares it with the New Delhi). The first meeting - the railway station. A long way along the platform for the exits. Typically, Indian platforms are cut by perpendicular 'bridges' for pedestrians. Here you can come out only at the station, which is perpendicular to the tracks, 'crowning' platforms. This was quite a familiar sight. Surely it's almost a copy of the Victoria Station in London.)
ambasadory yellow and black are working here as a taxi, instead of the ubiquitous green in Delhi, noisy trojkolowek.
policemen present at every intersection really directs the traffic. I saw even 'control center' lights (small box with the switches in the middle eletrycznymi). All riders ride in helmets - another rarity on the rock of entire India (other thing, these are mostly the type helmets' Wehrmacht soldier, '39).
story is completely separate architerktura Calcutta. Here you can see the most colonial past. Powerful, though Victorian buildings destroyed shines through in places sawn, modern fabric of the city.
Well, the most surprising Sightseeing rickshaws. Bosi men obwinieci waist stretch cotton fabric spare passengers or goods unpacked. These vehicles bluntly refer to the colonial past than even the most monumental architecture.
If New Delhi is as Warsaw (though from a totally different story), it reminded me Calcutta Poznan - suddenly manifesting traces of splendor from the beginning of last century.
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