Delhi, India

We started our three-city tour of India in Dehli. Our trip to India cannot be explained in one word. There were so many things that we saw that will remain with us forever. Some good and some bad, but overall we enjoyed ourselves and nothing bad happened. I was really concerned with getting food poisoning so I took a ton of power bars and enough medication to keep us off the toilet, in case it came to that situation. We never ate at a place that wasn’t known to serve tourists, never drank water unless it was in a sealed bottle provided by the hotel (even to brush our teeth), came prepared with our own toilet paper and plenty of hand sanitizer. Dehli India is a very busy city and tourists should be aware of the typical crimes against tourist (i.e. pick pocketing), so please be careful.

Our tour included our own driver who transported us and our guides to each site, restaurant, hotel and each city. He even was able to take us to places we wanted to go that wasn’t included in our tour. Driving there is very hectic and chaotic. Between the stray dogs, cows, donkeys, camels pulling wagons, scooters, pedestrians  and anything with wheels, it is a lot going on at a time. And they do not use turn signals, they use their horns. So every minute of the day we heard constant honking. At the end of the day it was nice to go to our quiet hotels where we could relax in peace and quiet!

Humayuns Tomb

Our first full day in Delhi we started out by going to Humayuns Tomb which was built in the mid 16th century and was the inspiration for the Taj Mahal. It was a little rainy and foggy this day so the pictures did not come out as clear as we had hoped!

Jama Masjid

Red Fort

After our ride we arrived at Red Fort. is a 17th century fort complex constructed by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in the walled city of Old Delhi that served as the residence of the Mughal Emperors. The fort was the palace for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s new capital, Shahjahanabad, the seventh city in the Delhi site. He moved his capital here from Agra in a move designed to bring prestige to his reign, and to provide ample opportunity to apply his ambitious building schemes and interests.