Delhi Capital - March 26th, 2007

I was getting strange headaches last night becaue it was coming back to me the experience I had when I first arrived in India on November 15th. I dread having to get back to Delhi becaue it was a very traumatic first night experience and all I remember if it was very ugly. So I got up very early this morning because I didn't wanted to miss my train that would arrive in Delhi in daylight. It turned out the train compartment was almost empty, and made the journey more relax. I avoided the taxi drivers and took a bus, supposely to bring me to the Youth Hostel located in Cenral Delhi, right in the middle of the Diplomatic enclave. I would never have expected a Youth Hostel to be located in such area and covered by security and hardly anybody in the great, wide and clean streets and sidewalks.
As I was waiting for the bus, a taxi driver convinced me to allow him to take me to the Hostal since buses cann't enter the Diplomatic area for security reasons. I started to wonder if I should really go to such location unlike the ussual location that most hostals are at, easily accesible by bus, metro, and near sight areas, shops, etc. Since the Lonely Planet described as having a "Soothing Setting", I decided it is what I needed for my last week in India.
The driver took me there and I thought I was in another country. Nothing like the India I have been travellinf for nearly five months. This hostal is very fancy and is mostly full of Indian people instead of backpackers or foreign tourists. Indian groups staying for conventions, meetings and the like.
There is a lady from Teheran, Iran (hi Mary....!), who is staying here becaue she is going to attend the University, one American lady from Florida relocating to South Korea to teach Enblish, and the other 3 ladies are from various parts of India. Interesting combination.
The driver explained to me that tomorrow is a holiday (last day of fasting for Bhrama devotees), and traffic would be minimal in Delhi, so he offered to take me around for good sightseen.