India - 2010
In November - December 2010 I spent 6 weeks in India on 3 IntrepidTravel tours.
An excited tourist on the Air Asia A330 jet en route from Kuala Lumpur to Delhi.
Delhi
With a population of more than 12 million, Delhi is the 8th largest metropolis in the world.
Although Mumbai has a larger population, Delhi is the capital of India.
Ruby everything!!!
At a street stall you select what you want to chew in your "cigarette".
Plenty of fireworks...
Chillies are hung over doorways to keep out "evil spirits".
We visited a Sikh Temple, Gurudwara Bangla Sahib.
Adjoining the temple they have a massive kitchen where they prepare meals for thousands of people daily.
Anyone is allowed to come and eat a meal.
Here, volunteers are making chipattis by hand. We helped them make some.
Massive vats of lentil soup.
A machine making chipattis.
A chai stall on the street.
A glass of chai.
Chai (tea masala), has green cardamon, black pepper, cloves, nutmeg, mace and ginger in it.
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A typical Indian vegetarian meal.
In the 1920s the British moved the capital from Calcutta to Delhi
and built a new city, New Delhi, just south of the old city.
Connaught Place is part of New Delhi.
Lal Qila
(Red Fort)
Dating from 1628, The Red Fort ( Lal Qila) is a 17th century fort complex constructed by the
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the walled city of Old Delhi.
Shah Jahan never completely moved here because he was deposed and inprisoned in Agra Fort by his son, Aurangzeb in 1658.
After moving from Agra the fort and palace complex served as the capital of the Mughals until 1857,
when Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled by the British Indian government.
The British used it as a military camp until India was made independent in 1947.
In November - December 2010 I spent 6 weeks in India on 3 IntrepidTravel tours.
An excited tourist on the Air Asia A330 jet en route from Kuala Lumpur to Delhi.
Delhi
With a population of more than 12 million, Delhi is the 8th largest metropolis in the world.
Although Mumbai has a larger population, Delhi is the capital of India.
Ruby everything!!!
At a street stall you select what you want to chew in your "cigarette".
Plenty of fireworks...
Chillies are hung over doorways to keep out "evil spirits".
We visited a Sikh Temple, Gurudwara Bangla Sahib.
Adjoining the temple they have a massive kitchen where they prepare meals for thousands of people daily.
Anyone is allowed to come and eat a meal.
Here, volunteers are making chipattis by hand. We helped them make some.
Massive vats of lentil soup.
A machine making chipattis.
A chai stall on the street.
A glass of chai.
Chai (tea masala), has green cardamon, black pepper, cloves, nutmeg, mace and ginger in it.
????
A typical Indian vegetarian meal.
In the 1920s the British moved the capital from Calcutta to Delhi
and built a new city, New Delhi, just south of the old city.
Connaught Place is part of New Delhi.
Lal Qila
(Red Fort)
Dating from 1628, The Red Fort ( Lal Qila) is a 17th century fort complex constructed by the
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the walled city of Old Delhi.
Shah Jahan never completely moved here because he was deposed and inprisoned in Agra Fort by his son, Aurangzeb in 1658.
After moving from Agra the fort and palace complex served as the capital of the Mughals until 1857,
when Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled by the British Indian government.
The British used it as a military camp until India was made independent in 1947.
