Change of plan. Because the nighttrain to Varanasi was overbooked (suffocatingly crowded with very poor people and no place to even sit, while we payed for two sleepberths) we decided to get out of the train. We stayed a few more days in Delhi, in the cheaper Sky View Guest House this time, to figure out how to exactly spend our last month in India.
One of the days we spend in the National Museum. I really liked the exhibition of traditional Indian miniature paintings. Furthermore lots of historical 'art' like coins, weapons, traditional clothing and pieces of ancient temples and other importan buildings.
Coincidence or not, we always seem to share a museum with huge groups of schoolkids that literally ALL want to shake our hand! I must say the Indian schoolchildren are having the best manners I have seen in India and maybe in the whole world. I love it when I see a big smile appear after answering 'your country?' or 'your name?' or simply waving 'hi' and 'goodbye'. Parents teach their children from very young age to do that in the streets too.
We shortly visited the War Memorial Arch and India Gate, as we both didn't feel so well. We started coughing more and more and felt very tired. We both got a real cold due to enormous temperature difference and Jaakko spend most of the time on the toilet so we didn' t mind staying in bed for a day or two.
After planning our Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan-trip, we decided the first place we would go is Agra; city of the worldfamous Taj Mahal.
