gurgaon

I just realized that I had forgotten to finish off my travel coverage on delhi...I missed to introduce you to gurgaon!

gurgaon is a place packed with office buildings and huge residental sky scrapers. a totally artificial and planned city near new delhi. this is where the business is being done. driving through those ravines of glass and steel, you cannot think of any company whose name you have not seen. they are all here.

more than just a hand full of malls entertain the large expatriate community and the wealthy indian families living here. you find everything from cinemas to a german restaurant there (steffen and I were the only obvious foreigners in there!). strange place, this gurgaon.

here are a few pics of gurgaon plus a glimpse of what expatriate life in india can resemble when it comes to housing (I stayed in one of the two guest houses our company maintains there):

otherwise, I am doing fine. my intestinal bacteria - the good ones - seem to be back at work. tomorrow night, I will join nikhil and some college friends of his for a night hiking trip. we will head to rajgad which is, reportedly, one of the most impressive forts in maharashtra. we will climb to the pinnacle at night, rest up there and wait for dawn to arrive, and then come back to pune in the morning. all that on motorbikes (I insisted on wearing a helmet - I will certainly be the only one who bothers).

ti-bob