getting to India~ ✈️

 Where do I even begin?!

8:30AM ~ I arrive to the Sihanoukville Airport ready to check-in for my flight to Vietnam! As I check-in they ask if I have a visa for Vietnam. I said, Oh! I asked and since I'm transiting through, they said I don't need one. The flight attendant checking me in, says NO... You need a visa or I can't check you in. 😰 I start panicking and calling the e-visa company I used in December. 

9:00AM ~ I'm on the phone with the e-visa agent. I need a visa NOW! Okay, m'aam. E-mail us your flight info. and passport photo page. I whip out my laptop and start getting the documents ready to send. I e-mail them. I get a reply back with the fee of $250 USD!!! and the e-mail reply saying they will send the e-visa at 10:00AM. My flight is scheduled to depart at 10:45AM.

10:00AM ~ I'm pacing back and forth, waiting and checking my e-mail for the e-visa. I go to the counter asking if I can check-in and I show them that I paid for the visa and they will send it. The lady said No, I need to see the visa before checking you in. No worry, it's fast. I smile nervously and say... okay. She said we wait 10 more minutes for you. 

10:15AM ~ Still no e-visa. I'm pacing back and forth still. The lady keeps looking at me... and then is talking to the security guy about me waiting for my visa still.

10:25AM ~ I finally receive an e-mail from the company and check-in my suitcase and run to the security gate. I still needed to go through security since I was flying internationally. Luckily, since there were no other flights... my flight was the only flight out at that time, I was the ONLY person going through security. The Cambodian Customs Guard asked me, why I'm so LATE? I said I needed the e-visa for Vietnam. He laughed. I said arkoun (thank you in Khmer), and ran to the plane. I was the last person... obviously... BUT made it!!! The plane took off shortly after I boarded. Left exactly at 10:45AM!!!

Flight from Sihanoukville to Ho Chi Minh

The drama continues...

12:00PM ~ Arrived to Ho Chi Minh, and go through customs and everything. Showed them my e-visa for the day just to transit through... No problems. I walk over to the Domestic Terminal and check-in my flight from Ho Chi Minh to Da Nang. Flight scheduled to depart at 2:30PM and arrive to Da Nang at 4:00PM. Flight from Da Nang to New Delhi was at 4:55PM. 

2:30PM ~ Boarded the plane, ready to go!! BUT don't take off until like 3:00PM. 😭

4:30PM ~ Arrive to Da Nang. I run to get my suitcase. I tried not to check-it in, but when I was in Da Nang the flight attendant picked me out in the line and weighed my suitcase and made me check it in at the gate!!! I was soooooo made... so I had to wait for my suitcase when I go to Da Nang. I run to the International Terminal and look to check-in, but it's too late and the doors were closed on the flight...

5:00PM ~ I'm talking to one of the other agents to book a flight to India... they said there's another flight to New Delhi in 2 days... no, that doesn't work for me. Then they said well, we have a flight tonight to Ahmedabad, India. I'm like where's that?! Then I look it up and it's not far from Delhi... so I book it, and go check-in. They help print out my India Visa, and I'm set to go to Ahmedabad, India!! 💗

Flight from Da Nang to Ahmedabad

01:04AM ~Arrived to Ahmedabad!! Had to leave the International Terminal and walked out to the Domestic Terminal. 

Landed in Ahmedabad!

01:30AM ~ I saw a window for Indigo Airlines, and talked to the person to purchase a ticket from Ahmedabad to Delhi!! I was able to get a ticket that departed at 04:05AM and arrive to Delhi at 05:45AM. ☺

AND that's how I eventually got to Delhi... 🤑💸