Its 8:45pm, and I arrived in Delhi an hour or so ago. I'm exhausted, but trying to stay up another hour or two so I can adjust quickly to the nearly 12-hour time difference.
I had a hilarious taxi driver from the airport to the hotel. In very broken English, he kept pointing to trees by the side of the road and saying "jungle" and listing lions, tigers, elephants. I was a bit skeptical, which turned into thinking he was a bit off his rocker when he kept asking me if I wanted to go see the tiger. I kept saying no, maybe tomorrow, given that it was dark and I was exhausted. Two good reasons to wait to see a tiger, right? He kept asking though, clearly unhappy I didn't want to see it now.
Finally, he asked again and I said maybe -- that made him happy, just as we drove up to a roundabout. He pointed and laughed, there, in the center of the roundabout was a very cute tiger (resembled a teddy bear actually) made of sticks.
Good first taxi ride alone.
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