New Delhi Travel Blogs

I woke up at 7:30 for the second time, because we heard again the mosque at 4:30 am. After a good breakfast we had a tour through Old Delhi with a guide. Not many tourist do this but it is nice to walk over the markets and between the locals. We walked by the Jama Masjid again and over the local ma…

            INDIA THE MOVIE Art director: Jacqinmiddenamerika   While making India the movie I realised how wonderful or I must say incredible it was to travel through India. All those wonderful colours, nice and helpful people, beautiful landscapes …

Some rooms in a hotel in Delhi had been booked so we could shower and change before our overnight sleeper train to NainiTal. ‘Armpit Palace’ hotel, pretty sure that is what it was called, was very obviously a ‘pay per hour’ type of establishment, it was grim. Mouse droppings all over the be…

Our time in Delhi included staying at the 5 star Ashok Hotel.  The price of the hotel didn't equal the services and comfort of stay.  The rooms were very old and outdated and the cost was roughly $300 USD per night.  On the first day, a friend was using the hotel hair dryer only to h…

“It is hard to leave a place where you can believe that anything is possible. But that is why one must leave. To see if you were right, to see if your insights can be lived in a different air, at a lower level.”   A Journey in Ladakh - Andrew Harvey   Besides being delayed the fli…

First Dutch version then English version below and as last you will find the Spanish version:   We staan vandaag vroeg op. De wekker gaat om 8 uur. Echter worden wij beide veel eerder wakker deze ochtend omdat er eerst een alarm gaat om 4 uur en daarna om half 5 de Moskee. Wij slapen pa…

Taking an auto-ricksaw through the streets of Delhi is an experience that is hard to describe.  Let's just say it makes greek drivers look good. Today we spent most of the day seeing old Delhi. I feel that this is closer to the real India, not as green and quiet as New Delhi, the im…

As many of my friends on Travbuddy know, I have been unwell since coming back from India. To cut the story short, something showed up on a CT scan of my lung after I complained of feeling breathless, very tired and lethargic and having chest pains when I got home, 2 months after my trip. 8 months …

"India was a constant assault on the senses. Unless I was way out in the country or hidden away in an ashram somewhere, I swam in a sea of people, animals, cars-trucks-bikes, smells (both pleasant and putrid), people dying on the streets, children working harder than most people ever have or ever w…

I'm getting quite good at going to India, as this is my second business trip here. For example I arrived at the airport and some indian guy grabs my luggage and asks to carry it out for me, I say "I'll give you 5 rupees" and he gets up and leaves me alone.  Another example is my arrival to …

Today was my last in Delhi and even though I had enjoyed my trip, I was very much looking forward to going home.  My health was very much on the decline with a persistent cough and a growing lung infection; home is where I needed to be.   I decided to sleep in this morning and n…

7/14/07 Well the flight to Mumbai and then on to Delhi was fairly boring.  We tried to get a pre-paid taxi to Darshan and Murli’s and had a bit of trouble since there was a huge line of people waiting (and mostly cutting around other waiting people) to hop in cabs.  We finally walked al…

Finally - after all the build up, we make it to India!  I'm not exactly sure what I expected, but this wasn't it.  We spent our first two days in Delhi being driven around by an autorickshaw driver Mr Bill, who when asked to show us the sights of Delhi took us to shops that we conc…

India February 24th 1990.   Nehru, Gandhi Pilgrimage, and new friends. Today we are to be on our own for the morning, as Dorothy has some packing and freighting home to do of the dozens of Indian carpets she has bought, wow, that lady can shop, I think she has captured the entire output f…

AkshardhamThere is a temple in New Delhi called Akshardham. In my mind, it was much more amazing than the Taj Mahal, though new! If you get an opportunity, I would definitely take a day to spend in Akshardham. Since the bombing in India in Sept 08 at a temple, you were not allowed a camera, purse, …