Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Adventures in India - Delhi

Our trip to India back in February was amazing.  Because we took over 1,000 pictures (between our camera and Maren's), I've been working to organize our trip into logical segments.

The format for our India trip is going to be slightly different.  Since pictures say a 1,000 words (hmm... 1,000 pictures times 1,000 words would be....) the majority of our story-telling will come from our picture albums and the captions made to particular photos.  Just click on the links below for the different parts of our Delhi tour.   Once you're on the webpage with the photo album, click on the first photo and you'll see the pictures and comments, as well as have the option to view it as a slide show.

The streets of Delhi spoke a lot about the people's energy and how well they could cram things in.  Included in these pictures is the outside of a Hindu Temple where we were not allowed to take pictures.  We'll show pictures of other temples we visited later in our tour which look similar.

The Jama Masjid Mosque was one of the first places we visited after arriving into Delhi.

The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial was the highlight of the trip for Nils.

The Qutb Complex included several ancient memorials and monuments. Click here for more information on the Qutb complex.

Humayun's Tomb resembles the Taj Majal without all the people.

We spent the end of our tour in Delhi as well.  We managed to visit the Red Fort and the Zoo.  Hoping to see a tiger in captivity since we had missed being able to see one in the wild, we spent most of the afternoon at the zoo.  We still didn't get to see a tiger, even a caged tiger!  Ah, well.

As you can see there's a lot, and this is just Delhi.  I'll work on organizing the other parts of our trip and hope to share those with you soon.  At the end I'll give my lessons learned and other little anecdotes that didn't make it in with the pictures. 

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