So, Froody has been up and at'em for almost a week now, and that means finally seeing Delhi. It's a big city, of course, and is old enough to have a lot of monuments scattered about.
*Froody gets his IV removed at last.
*View from our rooftop restaurant of Main Bazar in the morning.
*Another morning, this time a procession of sorts. None of the waiters could explain what it was about. There's always something going on, even if it's just one man on a drum walking down the street.
*On a walk around our neighborhood we found a Christian cemetary. It must be very new, as none of the dates on the graves were before 1995.
*OBAMA
*Our first walk through Old Delhi was near the mosque, Jama Masjid.
We walked by the poultry market (or what's left of it), some butchers, breads and pasta, and everything else.
*Froody at a small restaurant on Main Bazar. His tummy was ready for a bit more Indian food!
*Humayan's Tomb is part of a big complex with his tomb and several others, and a couple of mosques. It's also known as the Red Taj Mahal.
*I bought myself a salwar kameez, a very comfy, traditional Indian outfit.
*We also checked out the Bahaia Temple, also called the Lotus Temple. It is very beautiful and very modern.
*The Qutb Minar is a 74m tower erected by the Arabs when they conquered northern India and introduced Islam.
*In Islam, representations of people are not allowed, so the muslims chopped the faces off of many Jain and Hindi temples (and lots of Egyptian temples, too) and used the blocks of a temple in the area to build the first mosque in India.
*The Qutb Minar and Humayan's tomb are made of blocks of red sandstone. Some of the patterns reminded us of Petra.
*We also visited Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India. The guidebook says that every Friday 30,000 people go to the mosque!
*Imagine tens of thousands of people here, not pigeons.
*Back in the day of Shah Jahar, the women of the royal court would sit here and perform prayer, safe from common, male eyes.
*It's interesting to see the common structures of mosques, be they Indian or Arabic. They all have a place to wash, this one the biggest we've seen, and a mihrab, the niche that faces Mecca.
*This mosque has relics of Mohammed and is made of red sandstone and white marble.
*We climbed a minaret and got some nice views of Old Delhi.
*Here I am about to go down the wrong street as we walk through more of the market place around the mosque.
*Mmmmmm.....lots and lots of colorful fabrics. This is the bridal section of the market where you can buy fabric for your wedding sari.
*A parade for something, but we don't know what!
*In the mornings, people stop and worship at a temple. This includes chanting and ringing a bell.
*We decided to splurge and eat at a revolving restaurant near Connaught Place. It's nice knowing we can spend USD20 on one meal and then USD5 on the next, and still be on budget.
2 comments:
I lived close to Humayan's Tomb - It's a great place to relax on the grass when it's too hot. :) Great pix!
Hey, Typ0! Wow, you've done a lot of travelling around since I left Egypt. We loved how cool and quiet Humayan's Tomb was.
As for India itself. our bouts with bacterial infections have really drained our enthusiasm for the place. :-( I'm hoping it'll rekindle once we actually get out of Delhi and see a little of India. Can you believe we've been here 5 weeks and have spent 2 in the hospital??
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