Swaminarayan Akshardham 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 …

Five o'clock in the morning. 0500 hours. 5.00am! The sun was some way below the horizon as we head for our train back to Delhi. We actually got up at 4.15am and I have no idea why Annie booked such an early train...sometimes you just have to nod sagely!
Note from Annie - this train took 5 hours and gave us the afternoon in Delhi, the other …

It is now Friday and after breakfast, we jump on the Metro and head to The Red Fort. Our walk from the station is a crazy, stressful journey, dodging cars, rickshaws and people, and I arrive there physically shaking with the stress of it. We buy tickets and as soon as we go through the gates, I feel calm. We walk through a little market selling …

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Today was a very busy day of visiting sights around New Delhi and Old Delhi, we started our day at Qutab Minar Complex, and here we saw the highest stone tower in India. Construction of the tower began in 1196 and was completed in 1206, the tower was seven stories high, until an earthquake in the 18^th century knocked …

My last two adventures are on the continent of Asia. The first is in Dehli, India. The country is 1,269,219 square miles and has about 1.2 billion people. Most of the population is very religious and family oriented.Their houses are small, but they are always trying to improve them. Like South Africa, extended family often lives together onder one …

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What is Delhi?!? We were confused before we went….Is it a city, a state or a capital?!?! So after researching this I can confidently conclude the following...

Delhi is officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) making it the capital of India. It's a union not a state and 'New Delhi' is the capital city of India …

... took in the Red Fort in Old Delhi and some markets the first day. With Nancy and Cheri I saw Swaminarayan Akshardham which is a new monument built in 17th century style. It was beautiful, covered with intricate carvings--sandstone on the outside ...

... Kelly and Craig, the Scottish couple) saw it on the giant Buddha in Hong Kong. We also went to the Swaminarayan Akshardham, a huge complex celebrating Indian culture and inspired by and venerating Swaminarayan. He was apparently an incarnation of ...

... fort. In the lobby of our hotel however we ran into a lady from New York (Natasha) who was trying to negotiate cab fare to Swaminarayan Akshardham--try and spit that one out. So we decided to jump in with her and split the cab fare. A driver soon met ...

... . The tour ended at 1ish then we ate lunch. That evening we asked our driver to take us to the Swaminarayan Akshardham, which means water. Just joking. It is a huge complex built to educate and celebrate the Swaminarayan sect ...

... entered the attraction park-like enclave, we concluded we were meant to visit this temple. The Swaminarayan Akshardham temple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshardham_(Delhi)) is a modern Hindu temple that was inaugurated in 2005, making it the ...

... the Bazaar and markets. Viv was in heaven but also very indecisive about which cheap Indian outfit to buy! Day 3 (June 30, 2012): Swaminarayan Akshardham o   This is a temple, although not any temple, it is now the largest Hindu temple in the ...

... which has been touted as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’. Akshardham, or also referred to as Swaminarayan Akshardham, is a Gujarati temple displaying ten thousand years of traditional Indian and Hindu culture, tradition, spirituality and ...

We spent the day visiting some famous monuments in Delhi and went to the swaminarayan akshardham temple in the evening. Monuments visited and some history courtesy of Wikipedia: Rajghat Raj Ghat is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. Originally it was the name ...