Connaught Place New Delhi

Wow - despite Dip telling me lots of stories about India, the culture, the people and the environment I chose not to really believe him and instead wait until I experienced it for myself. And oh my god every word he said is true. India, New Delhi, is a crazy, chaotic, traffic fueled, polluted, overpopulated, exhausting and intriguing place. I have …

hallo,das hier ist nun also der erste eintrag, nach diversen bereits erlebten kulturschocks! aber wir haben delhi erlebt und ueberlebt und haben viel gesehen!delhi ist eine riesige stadt, was man auch an den laufwegen merkt, dennoch wirkt sie irgendwie nicht so massiv und riesig, da alles aus einem grossen wirren konstrukt aus vielen kleinen gassen …

Landed at 6am local time in the middle of a huge monsoon downpour, quite exciting! Stepping off the plane the heat and humidity hit me straight away!

It took me a while to get through immigration (i didn't see any customs!) and I had to hunt around for the pick up/drop off point. Luckily my driver was still waiting for me and we made our …

Still a busy city, but not quite as crazy as Varanasi, we decided to book a hotel with air con and a TV, what a treat for about a tenner, as apposed to the £4 we usually pay for budget double fan room.

Para ganj main drag was just as we hoped, full of hotels, bars, restaurants and cheap market shops- it even has the tacky bright lights to …

India -day 1 - New Delhi
What an amazing day! Arrived in to the airport an hour late at 04:10. When we came to immigration, we were faced with our first barrage of people. There were thousands of people waiting to go through!
We eventually got through and our driver met us on the other side and we were back to the hotel by 6.
Having had …

The next morning, John and Elliot are the first to surface at 1pm. Our bellies are hungry for food so we shower and wander downstairs to start our first day of exploring. There has been a spillage on the floor in the lobby and I watch with interest as five staff oversee another man cleaning it up, deep in discussion I presume at the best way to …

Well, here we are on our last day before returning home and contrary to most of the previous 50 days, no real plan other than to visit Gandhi Smriti, the house where Gandhi spent his last 144 days and was assasinated, and Connaught Place, the centre of New Dehli, for some shopping. Gandhi Smriti was only 3 doors away from our hotel, and such is the …

After over sleeping and putting it down to jet lag we set out onto the streets with nothing but our money belts and a map. We headed straight for the metro and joined the long queue for tickets. Some time later, having made it through security and navigated our way to the right platform (not easy when all the signs are in Indian) we arrived at …

Hello to everyone back in England!

This week my Mum, Aunty Louise and Grandma all arrived in Delhi so I have been having a brilliant time with them. I have also been enjoying proper showers and yummy breakfasts (including bacon butties!!!) courtesy of their hotel.

On Thursday evening (the day they arrived), we went to the hotel …

Fifty-Fourth Day in India - March 1, 2013
Seventh Day on North Trip - Traveling

....... (continued from North Trip: Agra)

On the bus, I fell asleep with my iPod in. When I woke up, I saw a sign saying “Shri Ram Industries,” and I got very excited. I remember, from photos, that my Dad had gone to a place called &# …

... , are all sealed up tight. We finally find (or should I say our rickshaw driver earns a cut at) an open store in Connaught place where we get set-price tea and Mariah orders a beautiful sari.At lunch Mariah begins eating with her left hand. "It ...

... to Delhi however he was inprisoned by his son before he could complete the move.  Touching.  We then took a detour to 'Connaught Place' the more salubrious area of town which we thought a bit odd as large parts of it ...

... meal together to celebrate the amazing, wonderful trip around the world that we'd just undertook. We went to a gorgeous restaurant at Connaught Place where we tasted the best food yet and had a few cocktails. maybe we should explain that we hadn't ...

... in comparison, no foul stench, no hassle, no nothing. Even just that little way out of Connaught place - what seems the heart of New Delhi with its circular construction of grand white buildings centred around the inner circle and outer circle, the ...

... some books (I just finished some fairly heavy reading, so got some crappy novels to get on with) and formulated a plan. I'd go to Connaught Place, chill out and indulge in some comforts and then hit the Red Fort. So that's what I did. Connaught Place ...

... gezeichnet, dass sie teilweise besser als moderne Fotos aussehen. Am nächsten Tag fuhren wir dann in die Stadt Richtung Connaught-Place und stoppten am Weg bei einem Äquadukt aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Unglaublich dieser Kontrast zwischen lärmender ...

... something to smoke Sir?" Eventually we had enough of being offered this that and the other so we headed to Connaught Place a nice park in the center of Delhi. We went to the tourist office to organise a trip around the city for the next day and ...

... , find hotel, big city to navigate before go airport - it doesn't even seem so dusty (oops yes it is) but New Delhi has wide boulevardes and Connaught Place is like Singapore so its a limbo kind of place. The Old City is more like India with the Red ...

... i Jama Masjid, förra gangen var det stängt när jag kom dit. Orkade inte ga in i Red Fort, next time! Gick runt Connaught place 2 ganger(stort shoppingcentrum) och även hallt till pa Main Bazaar där alla turister haller till. Även om jag är rätt ...

... . Georgian buildings hug the road that span around a large park in the centre (Central Park). We spent a whole day exploring Connaught Place, which in its own right is still extremely chaotic, you can not move 200 yards without someone  ...