"Get me out of here?" Eadamson's photos around Delhi, India (national capital territory of delhi)

Preview of Eadamson's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Delhi, India Entry Title: "Get me out of here?" Entry: "Look. I don't want to be all pessimistic, party pooper, ungrateful bastard. But Delhi kind of sucks. I caught a train from Jaipur at 230am. I had a nice stilted share-your-favorite-xyz's conversation with two guys waiting for another train, and then I got on my train and fell asleep. Woke up at 8am to walk the 250m to my hotel - hoping that 8am would be early enough, on a Saturday, to be free of crowds and hassle. Wrong. I'm partially at fault here. I'm staying in Paharganj, basically the backpacker dive area right by New Delhi Station. It's anything you would imagine a backpacker dive alley-street to look like - barely enough space to walk between two rows of LONG DISTANCE CALLS and MONEY ECHAGNE BEST RATE and INTERCYBERWE@B.COM CAFE and NEW DECENT HOTEL FREE HOT WATER signs. Electrical wires like spiderwebs above your heads - doesn't stop the power from cutting out around 5 times a day. A million big and small billboards littering the building facades. And pouring out onto the streets from the pit-like closet sized stores are thousands of trinkets and tourist-oriented ****. And tons of rickshaws squeezing through an impossibly cluttered dirty alley-street in both directions. There are a surprising amount of local people in the area ...

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"Sunset Camp" Youngtravellers's photos around Wadi Rum, Jordan (sunset camp 3 day trek reviews)

Preview of Youngtravellers's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Wadi Rum, Jordan Entry Title: "Sunset Camp" Entry: "Wadi Rum is one of those places that is rather difficult to get to and from in the low season. Wadi Rum is a vast expanse of protected desert, with only the tiny town of Wadi Rum nearby. There aren't enough locals moving to need minibuses, and most locals hitch. We had to sign up for a ridiculously expensive tourist minibus from Petra. The other problem was what to do when we got there. In a move with dubious motives, the government had erected the visitors center 7km from the village. You had to get off here to get a ticket. It was designed so that you had to arrange tours through the visitors center. This basically stole business from the shop-owners and tour operators in Wadi Rum, since there really isn't a reason for big tour groups to go there. This would be find except the tours are ridiculously expensive. To hire a jeep for a 4 hour trip is $120. An overnight stay costs a little under $40 a person. For just the two of us the cost was prohibitive. We needed a group. The other option was Mohammed's Sunset Camp. He was recommended in the book as a local operator. We went to his website, where the tours seemed really cheap, and emailed him. His response directed us to his new webpage, where the prices were more expensive, but ...

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