On the Road Again

Waiting to pay the toll into another state

Open road

    The journey to Jaipur is 260 kilometers, which Google estimates should take about 3 and a half hours to cover. Our program coordinators tell us that it would take 5 hours on a good day, but we are expecting some traffic, and thus, about 6 hours on the road.
    We drive out of Delhi past a collection of large, big military buildings, and then enter into a very weird territory of new, Western-looking office buildings. These are the homes of some the call centers and other outsourced service industry work. I didn't take any pictures of them. Sorry.
   The even more unusual sights came past the completed and functional office buildings, where for the next hour large unfinished apartment buildings were frequent on either side of the road, just beyond mustard fields, sheep pastures and very rough looking shacks. There were many unfinished, open air, cement looking towers, and almost no completed ones.

One of many empty apartment complexes springing up near the highway

All in all, 6 hours passed not too painfully and with the help of some singing games we arrived in Jaipur just in time for dinner. I look forward to seeing my new home base in the daylight tomorrow!