Day 2 Touring Delhi

We had 2 full days in Delhi for touring.  What’s nice about having your own tour group is you can be flexible and choose your start time and make changes easily.  So we sometimes swap itineraries, eliminate some and we can squeeze in shopping if there is time 🙂  It’s foggy in Delhi which explains the blur in the photos and in the background.  The weather was very pleasant, it was not hot and humid, it was just right and comfortable to be walking outdoors for sight seeing.  Again, no experiences of any unpleasant odors throughout the tour  

Delhi is beautiful.  I guess I had little or no expectations which is why when I got there, I was surprised to see what India had to offer.  Delhi reminded me of Europe – having been occupied by the British.  The structures and monuments are so beautiful 

Sonia Gandhi lives in Delhi and we passed her residence several times while going around the city 

 

More European influence reflected in their version of the Arc de Triomphe

They had a like a Burnham Park ( Baguio ) type lake with boats 🙂 Notice how clean it is in the New Delhi area compared to the Old Delhi

Humayun’s tomb which inspired the construction of the Taj Mahal.  I am just so amazed at how beautiful and how vast a land was used just to build a tomb in those days!  

 

When now it is so expensive to build even small mausoleums, even a box in a crypt is prime real estate!  I truly appreciate such a structure and a gesture to commemorate and bury a person, something you will probably never ever see anymore in any lifetime

Looking at the tip of the dome ( a bit hard to see due to fog ) – as you walk nearer to the arch structure, you will see that it disappears 🙂  

At this angle, Almost the same stretch towards the Taj and a similar shape 🙂

Beautiful gardens surrounding the tomb

Playing around 🙂

The same type of tree which enlightened Buddha 🙂

View from the side of the garden

The tomb

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