Needless to say we were exhausted at the end of our long and delayed flights. On Saturday morning we started our first Delhi city tour at 9 a.m., five hours after we arrived at the airport after flying all night from London. We had just enough time to check in and leave our bags at the hotel. Our room was ready because we had paid for last night. No rest for the weary.
Here are a few of the sites we visited.
Humayun ruled as emperor of northern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. His wife commissioned a tomb for him, shown above. The design inspired the Taj Mahal.
Humayun’s tomb was built in 1558.
We also visited Agrasen Ki Baoli, a 200-foot long step well built in the 14th century. Notice that we were photo bombed by a bird.
Some sections of Delhi are a bit primitive. There are several things to notice in this photo that I took on the way to the spice market. Broken pipes are leaking water into this street. I assumed that the water is potable because there was no bad smell of wastewater. They keep adding more levels to these helter-skelter buildings.
The electric and data wires are disorganized. When a wire stops working, apparently they leave it and just run a new one. We saw monkeys running along the wires.
The streets were a jumble of activity.
They generally use every bit of space. See this double decker shop above.
These handcarts were often used to transport goods locally.
Most of the small permanent shops had dirt floors.
We each took rides in a cycle rickshaw. He was Edward’s driver.
Here is a photo from the Internet the of Akshardham Hindu Temple which our guide said was the second largest temple in the world after Angkor Wat. It was built in 2005. We weren’t allowed to take our phones into the complex so I have no photos of my own.
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