Snippets of July 7

- Spent the morning with the Chopra family - friends of my second cousin David Gault. They showed me some important sights in Delhi, like the president’s house and ministry buildings, and then brought me back to their house for a delightful breakfast where I had a mango lassi and TWO kinds of mango. Afterwards, Sakshi took me a a market area in Delhi where we bargained for cheap clothes and drank coconut milk. This afternoon, we started our “4-5 hour” drive to Jaipur in a three hour traffic jam coming out of Delhi. We ended up spending about 8 hours on the road, and still didn’t manage to beat “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” on an iPhone. The sights along the road were astonishing, and sticking my head out the bus window as we passed cows and monkeys and people and traffic was a wonderful way to see rural India.

Pictures: Cows in the road, the road to Jaipur, market in Delhi, Sakshi Chopra, Captain and Romila Chopra