Sophie's travels 2011-2012: 24/2/2012 Beijing, China to Delhi, India

We had an early start and packed the last of our stuff in our bags then caught the bus to the tube station. I farewelled Andrea and Chris at Line 1 where they headed for the main railway station to catch their train to Shanghai to meet up with Claire and I headed off in the other direction to the Silk Market for some last minute shopping.

After checking the temperature in India I realised it was going to be warmer than I had thought and coming from Siberia and the very cold Northern climate I didn’t have any warmer weather gear with me. So I decided this was a good enough excuse to get a new t-shirt and shoes that my feet wouldn’t fry in… I grabbed a few bargains and made my way back to the hostel where I collected my stuff to post then walked to the post office.

It took a few hours to go through the process of posting a 5kg box home so I’m just crossing my fingers that it will make it and hoping for the best.

I had one last meal at our favourite restaurant then walked back to the hostel and collected my bags and caught a taxi to the airport.

It took an hour to get to the airport through the traffic and then I waited quite a while to check in due to a massive group who seemed to take priority over anyone else waiting to check in (that and I arrived an hour before the check in even opened…).

Due to the enormity of Beijing International Airport I had to catch a train from the check in counter to the boarding gate and even then walk a mile to my gate.

The flight was 7 hours from Beijing to Delhi and not too bad as far as flights go (I was slightly worried about what Air China might be like to fly with but they were just as good as any other cheap airline I’ve flown with).