General, Delhi

Favorite thing: Please visit the pubs, restro and neat & clean roads in South delhi atleast ...

Fondest memory: Parties in clubs, farms, discs, shopping by the road side, eating at the road side, stay at neat and clean hotels, South delhi markets, old delhi palaces, uncountable flyovers, green green gardens, low cost travelling in good bus,
music at bars, games at gamings zones, empty footpaths,bus stands chairs, long queues of train tickets, people sleeping at roadsides making nightlife active ... culture in villages, tombs, temples, gurudwaras, gals ready to party always and have fun ... rest I would write latter

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Favorite thing: Delhi is most comfortable between October and February with daytime temperatures of around (22 degree C) and cool evenings. December Arid January are decidedly chilly with night time lows of (4 degree C). The city has a fleeting, but beautiful flowering splendourduring the spring months of February and March, when parks brim over with flowers. The summer months of May and June are scorchingly hot, with the mercury soaring to a high of (46 degree C). Delhi does not have much of a rainy season compared to the other parts of the country. The monsoon or what there is of it in the citylasts from July to September.

Favorite thing: The 'Republic day parade' in New Delhi which takes place on the 26th of Jan every year to mark the day India became a 'Republic'.
This is the occassion where India shows off its cultural and military might... The President of India, who is also the chief of its military, takes the salute.
Its also a custom to host a chief guest- usually a visiting foreign head of state.

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Favorite thing: Built by the British about 100 years ago, these buildings now house many of the government offices. The main architect was Herbert Baker and Lutyens, and the design draws from Mughal and Rajpur styles...
The Home ministry, Ministry of External Affairs, Finance, etc are all housed within the North Block, while the block opposite (South Block) is almost identical and it houses the Ministry of Defence.

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Favorite thing: V Old Delhi and Connaught Place.
For handicrafts- visit the cottage industries emporium, the market at janpath (near connaught place) and dilli haat.
if you are one for history, the red fort in the old city, the purana quila (old fort), the qutab minar, Humayun's tomb, tughlakabad fort, hauz khas, safdarjungs tomb, and various structures from the british raj days, are worth a visit.
the picture here is of the qutab minar.

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Favorite thing: The following day I moved to the Hyatt Regency where I was to meet others and begin a tour. This was a huge contrast to my initial encounters, in many ways and I found my new temporary residence really quite formal and uninviting especially the location where there were mostly taller buildings and larger businesses surrounding the hotel. However, one view from my window was different again, on the perimeter of a park across the road were a small community of tents dwellers. Life for some seemed very unfair.

Favorite thing: Around the back streets were dozens and dozens of curbside businesses, plenty of cycle repairers and the usual barbers, shoe repairers and food stalls. No one bothered me, although most were a little curious at this blond and alone Caucasian lady invading their busy world happily snapping photos of all I was trying to absorb.

Favorite thing: One thing that took me by surprise was the cows that has taken residence on the raised median strip along this busy road. While I had seen them around the small streets of my hotel in Mumbai, this was a demanding road with no one tending them. Above them ran one of the busiest railway lines in Delhi. How did they get themselves there? I have no idea. Some apparently get themselves to places, some are placed their by their owners (somehow) and left for others to bring feed to.