We booked a tour of Delhi with the front desk which started at 10am. So after breakfast we went out to try to get some money from the ATM, no luck so we ended up changing $50 us dollars at the hotel @ .46. We met Kate in the foyer who was going to do a tour by herself so we asked her if she wanted to join us, which she did. Our first stop on the tour was Laxmi temple, like Akshardham we had to put our things into a lockup. It was a very beautiful temple but we had only 10 minutes to look through it.
Next stop was the India gate which is India's war memorial arch in honour of those who died in the First World War and the Second Anglo-Afghan war.
There were many games of cricket being played in the fields near by. We then headed off to have a look at the Rashtrapati Bhavan the Presidents residence, apparently one of the most grandiose of the Raj buildings. We were then taken to an Indian handicraft store, what David and I like to refer to as the papyrus factory stop. None of us bought anything which the driver was not happy about.
Our next stop was Qutb Minar, the worlds tallest brick minaret (72.5m high) and a world heritage site. After entering the complex we realised we had left our camera in the car, so we just wandered around enjoying looking at the ruins in the complex. When we got back to the car we could not find the camera so we said we would just have to buy a new one tomorrow. The driver said he would look for it while we were having our lunch. He took us to the Red Onion a very nice but over priced restaurant where we had vegetable biriyani and a 330ml can of diet coke. The meal was 300 rupee and the coke 150 rupee ($3). The driver called David outside and said that the driver of another car had found his camera, that it had fallen out of the car at the store we visited. He then requested a 500 rupee tip for finding it. We had been very happy with the driver until then but we are sure we left the camera in the car and that he had taken it to give to the other driver. Our first scam!
After lunch we stopped by the Lotus temple, a building in the shape of a lotus flower that looked similar to the Sydney opera house. It was closed so we had to take our photos from outside the gate.
The driver then took us to another handicraft store where we did not stay long, then it was off to Humayan's tomb. After paying our entrance fee we only had 120 rupee left. As we had been unable to get money out of the ATM we were thinking we would not have much for dinner tonight. The complex is huge and is a world heritage site. It was the first garden-tomb built on the Indian subcontinent and was the precursor to the Taj Mahal. We spent an hour wandering around the tomb and its surrounding gardens before heading back to the hotel.
The clerk at the front desk gave us directions to another ATM than the ones we had already tried and we at last managed to get money out. We had a lovely dinner at the hotel on the rooftop garden terrace, lovely end to a huge day.
Next stop was the India gate which is India's war memorial arch in honour of those who died in the First World War and the Second Anglo-Afghan war.
There were many games of cricket being played in the fields near by. We then headed off to have a look at the Rashtrapati Bhavan the Presidents residence, apparently one of the most grandiose of the Raj buildings. We were then taken to an Indian handicraft store, what David and I like to refer to as the papyrus factory stop. None of us bought anything which the driver was not happy about. Our next stop was Qutb Minar, the worlds tallest brick minaret (72.5m high) and a world heritage site. After entering the complex we realised we had left our camera in the car, so we just wandered around enjoying looking at the ruins in the complex. When we got back to the car we could not find the camera so we said we would just have to buy a new one tomorrow. The driver said he would look for it while we were having our lunch. He took us to the Red Onion a very nice but over priced restaurant where we had vegetable biriyani and a 330ml can of diet coke. The meal was 300 rupee and the coke 150 rupee ($3). The driver called David outside and said that the driver of another car had found his camera, that it had fallen out of the car at the store we visited. He then requested a 500 rupee tip for finding it. We had been very happy with the driver until then but we are sure we left the camera in the car and that he had taken it to give to the other driver. Our first scam!
After lunch we stopped by the Lotus temple, a building in the shape of a lotus flower that looked similar to the Sydney opera house. It was closed so we had to take our photos from outside the gate.
The driver then took us to another handicraft store where we did not stay long, then it was off to Humayan's tomb. After paying our entrance fee we only had 120 rupee left. As we had been unable to get money out of the ATM we were thinking we would not have much for dinner tonight. The complex is huge and is a world heritage site. It was the first garden-tomb built on the Indian subcontinent and was the precursor to the Taj Mahal. We spent an hour wandering around the tomb and its surrounding gardens before heading back to the hotel.
The clerk at the front desk gave us directions to another ATM than the ones we had already tried and we at last managed to get money out. We had a lovely dinner at the hotel on the rooftop garden terrace, lovely end to a huge day.
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