Touring New Dehli
Hi all,
We finally arrived in India during the early hours of Sunday morning (11pm GMT). Journey wasn’t too bad, plane food was rubbish but we had TVs with movies and games, which helped pass the time. Weather is nice; warm and comfortable. Got to hotel at 4 o’clock in the morning (local time) after some minor plane delays at Delhi airport waiting to park and disembark. Coach journey from airport to hotel was more like a roller coaster ride with all the bumps and humps (we saw an elephant and Neal bashed his head).
The hotel is small but very nice; it has large sized rooms, which are nicely decorated and very cosy. We met our guide Sanjeev at noon and went on a tour of New Delhi with all its fine government buildings from the days of the British Raj including its circular Parliament. We spent a long time at Birla House which is where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. It has been turned into a ‘Gandhi’ museum and we could almost feel his presence.
Finally we visited Humayun’s tomb, the first Mughal mausoleum precursor to the Taj Mahal. It was built in only seven years out of red sandstone and white marble (the Taj took 20 years and was made purely of white marble and precious stones!).
We are now off out to dinner!
We are all excited and looking forward to another day of our India adventure!
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