Today was the food tour which we'd signed up for which I was super excited for. I've managed to eat almost completely vegan throughout the trip but this food tour was a real highlight of my time in India before and so I went vegetarian for the day. As all of the local specialities involve ghee (refined butter) it would have been impossible without. We set off around 10.30 and did a tour of Amritsar, seeing parts of the old city and architecture whilst making stops at key food points in the city. It was very interesting to see shops and restaurants open for over 100 years and try their dishes, with restaurants often only serving one thing.
The tour took until about 2, when we got a tuk tuk back to the hostel. We were also booked onto the village tour at 3.30 but had a night bus to catch around 9.30 back to Delhi, and so we set off with all of our stuff in tow. The village tour was another highlight for me as you get to really experience what life is like for locals in India. We were driven by a tuk tuk to the house of one of the hostel owner's families, where we helped to make pakora on a mud stove and played with the baby farm animals. After a while we were taken by bull cart out to a field nearby where we played a team game which was so funny before heading back to the house. We then dresses up in traditional Punjabi suits and the guys wore turbans and took pictures. They were boiling! And then the family made us a huge dinner which was so sweet of them but we were still stuffed!
After learning some Hollywood dancing we headed back to the city in the tuk tuk, and were dropped off ready to get our night bus. This was yet another weird experience as we found that the beds were like double compartments and so I had to share with a random Indian woman. Thankfully I still managed to get a lot of sleep on the bumpy ride back to Delhi! We then got a tuk tuk and checked ourselves into a hostel at 6am to get a few hours of sleep!
Laura x
The tour took until about 2, when we got a tuk tuk back to the hostel. We were also booked onto the village tour at 3.30 but had a night bus to catch around 9.30 back to Delhi, and so we set off with all of our stuff in tow. The village tour was another highlight for me as you get to really experience what life is like for locals in India. We were driven by a tuk tuk to the house of one of the hostel owner's families, where we helped to make pakora on a mud stove and played with the baby farm animals. After a while we were taken by bull cart out to a field nearby where we played a team game which was so funny before heading back to the house. We then dresses up in traditional Punjabi suits and the guys wore turbans and took pictures. They were boiling! And then the family made us a huge dinner which was so sweet of them but we were still stuffed!
After learning some Hollywood dancing we headed back to the city in the tuk tuk, and were dropped off ready to get our night bus. This was yet another weird experience as we found that the beds were like double compartments and so I had to share with a random Indian woman. Thankfully I still managed to get a lot of sleep on the bumpy ride back to Delhi! We then got a tuk tuk and checked ourselves into a hostel at 6am to get a few hours of sleep!
Laura x
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