The Bristol Hotel Gurgaon
108 -110 Sikanderpur, Main Gurgaon, Mehrauli Road Gurgaon, Haryana, 122 002, India
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Delhi Magic
... of the temple we saw a giant blue statue of Shiva ( blue because he swallowed some poison ) and there were different glassed areas showing the different deities with their wife or girlfriend.
We then went to the Sikh temple ( a Gurdwara ) where we again took off shoes and socks and we all covered our heads including the boys. We washed our feet in an area where fine jets of water sprayed out from shallow marble stairs. Some devotees were ...
Delhi, our last stop in India
... br> There is a lot of mobile phoning, we wait "5 minutes", and a black 4WD turns up. It has a child seat in the back, and obviously belongs to Anoop's family. We get in, then transfer to another car at Dia Guest House, and have an easy trip into Ajmer, around the other side of the lake, past some pretty impressive buildings. We get leaned on for extra for the A/C, settle for 500 Rupees plus a 100 Rupee tip.
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Around Delhi In Metro
... lives who fought for the Brits during World War I. It is similar to the "Arc de Triomphe" of Paris, but looked slimmer and one cannot climb up to this gate unlike the Arc. Well it does serve its purpose of remembrance. On the main beam, carved the word "India" and below it the words "To the dead of the Indian Armies who fell and are honoured in France and Flanders Mesopotamia and Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere the near and the far east and in sacred memory also ...
My first steps into India
... when you are in their way, when you are going to slow, when you are going to fast - they just honk. Somehow the honks do not seem as aggressive or hostile as they do in the states. Probably because here a honk does not illicit an immediate hostile reaction - honks are expected. Also the lanes are not even a suggestion really - they are barely decoration. No one pays attention to them at all. My driver was constantly ...



