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- | 14. | + | ===== News From Lyn Baber. ===== |
- | NEWS FROM LYN BABER. | + | |
- | "India is much colder than I thought it would be. Actually we are here in the winter, but I still thought it would be hot. Darjeeling was cold, really | + | "India is much colder than I thought it would be. Actually we are here in the winter, but I still thought it would be hot. Darjeeling was cold, really |
Birla Temple, New Delhi, 11th January. | Birla Temple, New Delhi, 11th January. | ||
- | Our home in New Delhi. It's unbelievable. We are staying in a huge temple, the Birla Temple. Actually it is a Hindu Temple but there is a section for travellers. We have a small marble-floored room - a bit cramped, but it doesn' | + | |
- | invitation first of all to an evening at this man's home, and met his family and | + | Our home in New Delhi. It's unbelievable. We are staying in a huge temple, the Birla Temple. Actually it is a Hindu Temple but there is a section for travellers. We have a small marble-floored room - a bit cramped, but it doesn' |
- | friends, etc. Next day he took some of us on a trip aroard town to see some of the historical buildings and to some of the newly constructed ones, purely architectural, | + | |
- | but very good. That night the six of us all went to his Uncle and Aunt's home and were entertained in a very Indian fashion, and later showed our slides, etc. and then | + | Our New Year' |
- | last night Bruce and I had dinner at his house - a real roast chicken, all " | + | |
- | up" Indian style, bought specially for us as he is a Hindu and consequently a vegetarian. Our number three friends, and the best fun, are two Sikh men (the ones with | + | |
- | the turbans and beards). They have been great pals. Tonight we had tea at the home | + | |
- | of one of them, and the night before last at the other - served | + | |
- | floor. We have been to all sorts of odd places with them, to the Market at Old Delhi, to Ghandi' | + | |
- | Our New Year Eve was very odd indeed. We spent mast of New Year's Eve daywiting | + | |
- | 15. | + | |
- | on the other side - a very very old Indian town, not very big - actually a Moslem town, Rajmahal. We just felt that we should do something; 'Angela, Bruce and I wandered through the black little streets, bought some peanuts and ate them beside a big Moslem Temple on the banks of the Ganges, with a huge red moon coming up over what looked like the sea, but really was just the river stretching as far as the eye could see. Then for midnight we rushed back to our heuse, dragged the others out, | + | |
- | 0 and sang "Aud Lang Syne" out on the lawn in a circle. Since we have been in Delhi we have hardly bought ourselves any food at all, always managing an invitation somewhere We had been warned a long time ago that our tummies would nrobably | + | |
Kabul, Afghanistan, | Kabul, Afghanistan, | ||
- | Here we are once mare in a capital city, but this one sure is strange. It is only qiite small really. We arrived at 10.30 p m. the night before last, snow on the ground, not a soul anywhere, great big wide streets, and pulled up outside the royal palace. Unfortunately the guard did not invite us in so we had to go looking for somewhere else to sleep. Eventually stayed at the Hotel de Kabul (the only one in town) and that cost us 10/- per head. Really hurt, as you can imagine, but last night and tonight we are much better. off. Lou and I are staying with a couple (he looks after the Embassy Office) and the boys stayed with the British Military Attache. If our visas come through we leave temorrow for Kandahar. We have -t(- collect Iran and Iraqi visas, have been promised them, could not get them at all in Delhi. Afghanistan is just so different from anything else we have seen. It is either jagged snow-capped mountains or flat desolate wastes. Kabul itself is in a valley completely surrounded by mountains. There is no green anywhere. All the trees are bare and brown and there is snow lying about everywhere. All the h-uses | + | |
- | ' | + | Here we are once more in a capital city, but this one sure is strange. It is only quite small really. We arrived at 10.30 p.m. the night before last, snow on the ground, not a soul anywhere, great big wide streets, and pulled up outside the royal palace. Unfortunately the guard did not invite us in so we had to go looking for somewhere else to sleep. Eventually stayed at the Hotel de Kabul (the only one in town) and that cost us 10/- per head. Really hurt, as you can imagine, but last night and tonight we are much better off. Lou and I are staying with a couple (he looks after the Embassy Office) and the boys stayed with the British Military Attache. If our visas come through we leave temorrow for Kandahar. We have to collect Iran and Iraqi visas, have been promised them, could not get them at all in Delhi. Afghanistan is just so different from anything else we have seen. It is either jagged snow-capped mountains or flat desolate wastes. Kabul itself is in a valley completely surrounded by mountains. There is no green anywhere. All the trees are bare and brown and there is snow lying about everywhere. All the houses |
- | India is jUst so steeped in religion - mainly Moslems, Hindus and Sikhs. Everywhere there are Temples and Shrines, even out in the rice fields. There seems to be | + | |
- | a lot of bad feeling between the different | + | When we were in India we were all given some of their famous Betel nut to chew, but Bruce broke a tooth on it and an abscess had formed, and he has had this out today. So many people in the East chew Betel nut and it looks horrible. They have bright red mouths and lips from it and some even have their teeth caked in it. They spit this horrible red juice all over the place. It was funny to see us all trying it. John gulped it down, Angela nibbles a little bit, Eric had tried it before so he flatly refused, Bruce broke his tooth and Lou and I escaped |
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- | beautiful old furniture, beautiful gardens outside, lots of servants, and it all only c' | + | India is jUst so steeped in religion - mainly Moslems, Hindus and Sikhs. Everywhere there are Temples and Shrines, even out in the rice fields. There seems to be a lot of bad feeling between the different |
Continued on 23rd January. | Continued on 23rd January. | ||
- | I didn't have a chance to finish earlier but y-u should | + | |
- | and it's mighty chilly. The road is just solid ice and when you step off it you're likely to sink a foot deep in snow.. When we tried to boil water it took ages and ages - probably because we had to melt the snow first. But actually we are quite cosy. There are a couple of houses that look like fortresses nearby but we expect no invitations from them. The Afghans are a strange race. Anyway, back to our travels. After Delhi we visited Chundi Garh, which is in the Punjab. It's a completely new town, designed by a world famous Swiss Architect called Le Corbusier. I've seen photographs of lots of his buildings in Art magazines and it was terrific to actually see them in real life. From there we went on to Amritsar, | + | I didn't have a chance to finish earlier but you should |
- | went right into the temple by a bridge with hoards of people (had to leave our cameras | + | |
- | outside). It was just a continu-us | + | Just after Amritsar we crossed the border into Pakistan - more forms to fill in, more officials, and more stamps in our passports. It's amazing how people, customs and countryside |
- | and throwing | + | |
- | process. The -whole place was beautifully decorated with very fine paintings all over the walls and roofs. | + | ---- |
- | Just after Amritsar we crossed the border into Pakistan - more forms to fill in, more officials, and more stamps in our passports. It's amazing how people, | + | |
- | and c-untryside | + | |
- | different features and very few have beards, and the tea is wonderful. Honestly, we have become real connoisseurs of tea. From Singapore onwards we have been buying | + | |
- | milk and sugar, and we quite liked it too, after a while. It was always too complic- | + | |
- | ated when we tried to explain "no milk, no sugar", | + | |
- | with real milk (buffalo milk and bliled ton) sometimes flavoured with cinnamon - delicious. In the other countries there was no milk at all In Pakistan they are | + | |
- | very fussy indeed - fine china cups, no less, still boiled buffalo milk, but absol- | + | |
- | utely terrific tea, the best anywhere. Here in Afghanistan they use no milk at all | + | |
- | and half the time it is green tea, always served in tiny cups and as many small teapots as cups, so that we can have 5 or 6 cups each. | + | |
- | 17. | + | |
ILLINBAH ROUND TRIP. | ILLINBAH ROUND TRIP. | ||
Edna Garrad. | Edna Garrad. |
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