Delhi
3 days for Delhi is too less, especially when you have to mark your attendance at all the relatives’ place(which we did not
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). But we tried our best to cover some of the popular destinations.
So where do we begin? India Gate was the obvious answer.
This place is amazing. The grandness of this place is unparalleled. The India Gate stands tall on one side, and the majestic Rashtrapati bhavan on the other end. And in between is the royal carpet Rajpath.
Amar jawan always invokes special emotions.
North Block, South block, Parliament House, all these are grand structures and befitting symbols of democracy. (It’s a different story what kind of democracy our country has).
We also came back to this place later in the night. We were 8 people in my brother’s Safari. And we thought that it is a nice place to have ice-cream, at 1’o clock in the night.
We are done with 26th January. Now time for 15th August. Lal Qila (Red Fort).
We hopped on the Delhi Metro and got off at Chawri Bazar station. Having seen the Kolkata metro before, I must say I was really really impressed with Delhi Metro. Magnificent manifestation of technology. And very disciplined commuters was a surprise in India. Yeah, the Mumbai local train and bus travelers are also disciplined to a extent, but there is still an element of roughness in the setup.
Anyways, we are in Dilli-6, walking the narrow lanes of Old Delhi. Every old city in India has some area like this. But Dilli-6 has a special place of its own. We didn’t get a chance to go to the famous Paranthe wali gali, etc. But we still got a nice feel of the place.
After some distance of walking we reached Jama Maszid. Took a snap from outside.
We were 4 ppl. We took a 4-seater rickshaw. Two of us sat on the normal front seat. And two of us settled ourselves on the miniature back-seat. But tell you, it was real fun. I had not got this kind of ride for a long time. Our legs were touching(or almost) the cycle, scooters, and everything coming behind the rickshaw. And we finally reached the Red Fort.
The wall around the fort was grand.
When we went inside, we noticed that there were so many places inside that we would not want to cover everything.
This was a small market place inside the fort. Personally I do not like commercial ventures inside places like forts, temples, etc.
The things these shops were selling were the same that we saw in Jaipur shops. Similar looks, apparently similar quality. We realized that these days there is nothing like a particular piece of art would be available at only a given place. You can get those things everywhere, the only difference could be price. Yes there are things which you would want to buy from only a given place.
Few more pics from the inside area of Red Fort.
And we were done with it. We came out and hired the same kind of rickshaw ride back to the nearest Metro Station, Chandni Chowk.
One interesting thing I noticed about parking in Delhi, especially around Connaught Place (CP). There are layers of parking (due to lack of space). So you would have to leave your car in Neutral, without hand-brake on. The parking folks would play with your car, move it back and forth and manage the space. It is a common practice there.
But it was interesting for a guy from Bangalore.
Next on the list was Qutub Minar. Everybody told us that there was nothing there except that you would want to click few photos of the tower itself. But my wife wanted to see it for herself. So here we go, to the Qutub Minar.
The entrance.
The campus inside was big and lot many other structures in addition to the Minar.
The green garden
Camera stuck close to the Minar and shot.
This must have been an arc, destroyed over time.
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