Delhi

We are completely enamored with the chaos,madness,multitudes and constant challenges..Rigmor too even though it is her first time in India.
On the way from the new whizz-bang airport (vast changes since I was here last, driven I suspect by the burgeoning growth of the Indian middle class) we encountered road blocks and were informed by the police that we might not be able to get to our hotel in Parah Gang...the reason being that protests were to be held over the next few days as local elections were imminent and the people had grievances over another Modhi monetary misjudgment...this time (wait for it) the introduction of a GST!
So to continue the saga we were directed to the Tourist Information "offices" up some back alley behind Connaught Place.........all this on no sleep in 24 hours.........we made it by midnight to our very nice haveli style hotel (not a good idea to judge a book by it's cover.the street is in a state of dereliction from top to bottom).
Repeating the mantra"we are not tired" the first day was spent hurtling around Shah Jahan's once magnificent Red Fort..now a shadow of it's former self (retribution and desecration of the British colonisers and lack of public money since)...restoration would be a mighty task indeed!
Then on to the Gandhi Smitri Museum...the house where he spent his last few months and was assassinated....very moving.
Today we conquered the heat, noise and chaos of Chandi Chowk (Old Delhi's enormous and very old market)....and Jama Masjid (the largest mosque in India and another of Shah Jahan's projects (as was the Taj Mahal).
Then as if were not exhausted and hot enough into another rickshaw to the spectacular Mughal jewel....Humayan's Tomb...it was worth it.
The internet is unreliable and charging the computer up is as well ...so these posts might be errati.
I will try to send some photos now...wish me luck.
Kath xoxo