48hrs to India
17 Apr 2013 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Monday morning, I wake up early morning in Yerevan. Call the Indian embassy at 9am. "We will have your visa tonight". After some negotiation, "come at 11.50". I arrive at the embassy top on time, meet the consul handing my passport freshly stamped to the secretary who gives it to me.
So now it's time, I hitchhike to Tbilissi in Georgia, it's only 280km away but it takes more than 6hrs driving, I manage to make it in 8hrs. Some time to have a some chacha with Mickael at the hostel I stayed last time before I go to the airport, Check-in at 4am, 3hrs of flight, I land in Dubai at 9am.
I didn't expect much of Dubai, but I was positively surprised walking in the city center which looked like a cosmopolitan jungle, a bit like New York City. But then outside are kilometers of skyscrapers, masterpiece of architectures in the middle of the desert, built by all those Indians, Pakistanis and others low-cost worker, and they probably will never be able to get in once...
After 10hrs under the strong Arabian sun, back to the airport, 3hrs again of Flight and I land in Chennai. It is 4am. I manage to find the local train to reach the city, have a tea (ahhhh, Indian tea, I had missed you so much!!!), and finally, not really knowing where to go, I jump in a bus going to Pondicherry...