Arrived safety in Delhi

Arrived safely in Delhi on 13th January 2pm local time (5 hours ahead of UK). Flew with Oman Air via Muscat. Food was awful didn’t live up to the promise
of the menu! See photo. Service was indifferent. Although Muscat Airport looks fantastic it was very disorganised.

Had a bit of a blip at Delhi airport, Jeff handed in his Sri Lankan visa along with his Indian which caused a bit of confusion and a couple of officials to sort out, all sorted though and we were on our way.

Staying at the Palace Heights Hotel for 3 nights, good location, cheap for Delhi, great service and a super restaurant where we ate last night.

The temperature is around 20C going down to 5C at night so quite chilly.

We are planning to go to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal tomorrow, this will be the second attempt as several years ago we got as far as the entrance queue and Liz was sick so had to abort.



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