We have arrived in the mad city of Delhi, we have booked our own hotel as we wanted to ensure we had an air conditioned room and trusted restaurant. What a mad place this is and very hot. You cannot move for being stopped by rickshaw, taxi and tuk tuk drivers, so we duck our heads and walk to our hotel. We are greeted with a cool calm hotel with even a bell hop to run the lift. In the evening we venture out after having had a very nice curry, and wander the back streets. Most of the people are friendly as they are used to westerners, but of course they want to sell you something. The next day we venture onto the Delhi metro ,surprisingly, we find it is air conditioned and very well run, but the passengers fight for the seats which was funny to watch. Our trip took us to the Harley shop in the middle of a posh shopping complex, the short auto rickshaw trip was more expensive than the long metro journey? We were the only customers in the shopping complex. What a different world to the outside, where there is poverty, squalor everywhere and beggars of all descriptions. We buy our T shirts and Jackie gets to pose with a customer outside, snatching his bike off him just to hold it, as it was the same as hers!. We feel a bit bad about spending money on t shirts, when we see children begging, we do not give anything as we are aware they are run by beggar
Masters, so do our best to not engage with them.
After our Harley visit we do some site seeing at the Qutub Minar complex. Which is peaceful (for India), we get to feed chipmunks and people watch but still have to pose for the odd photo. We then have to return to the hotel to rest from the heat, as it is so easy to dehydrate in this place. In the evening we jump on the metro again, to see the Lotus temple, we arrive just as they close it! Still we did see it in the dark and it was pretty. The next day we visit the Delhi red fort and chat to some Australians in a Macdonalds nearby, they come from Horsham (in Australia), they have given us their address should we be nearby to them.
We then wander through the spice and Tea bazaar, the spices were so strong that everybody was coughing from the spices in the air. We buy some food and somehow managed to get back to the hotel, just before Jackie turns into a red sweat monster! We then rest up on our cool hotel and get ready to move onto Jaipur tomorrow.