Today Edward and I slept in to recover from our grueling travel and long day yesterday. Then we took an Uber tuk-tuk to an outdoor shopping center called M Block Market.
Tuk-tuks, also known as auto-rickshaws, are a common and affordable mode of transportation in India. They are three-wheeled vehicles with open frames, canvas roofs, and driver cabins with two-person back seats. They got their name from the sound they make.
The market had fancy stores for clothing, jewelry, and other items almost equivalent in decor to what we experience in the U.S. juxtaposed with other more third-world-like stores and restaurants this Chinese food kiosk where we ate lunch.
Late in the afternoon we rode an Uber tuk-tuk to the India Gate. See the traffic.
India Gate was crowded with visitors, and we had to back far away for this photo to not be surrounded.
India Gate is a memorial to 84,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died between 1914 and 1921 in the First World War in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
There were a variety of food vendors.
Near India Gate is a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose. This 28-foot-tall monolithic statue made of black granite, is dedicated to the Indian freedom fighter and Commander-in-Chief of the Indian National Army. His defiance of British rule in the first half of the 20th century made him a hero among many Indians.
India has their own style of health safety warnings.
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