Today, I had my tour to New Delhi with my friend. First, he told me to use bus and he would follow the bus. As the weather was cold enough. I rejected. I was OK with the weather. I was pretty sure that I can deal with the wind too. I sat at the back on my friend's motorcycle. And we went outside of parking lot. The wind blew so cold. Lucky me, the helmet had a protection and protected my face from the wind. We left Gurgaon and went to New Delhi.
Our first place was Qutub Minar. Qutub Minar was the tallest minaret and an Islam legacy in India.I couldn't go in. My friend bought me ticket for local people while I was a foreigner. The police caught me that I wasn't Indian and asked me to go out. I wanna bought foreigner ticket but my friend said I can have my photo session outside the park. So here we go. Qutub Minar is Unesco World Heritage Site. And up to now, I haven't seen this park inside. Someday, I must visit it.
We continued our journey again to other site of Delhi. Not far from Qutub Minar, I saw a long wall with painting. The painting featured a king with his troops. I stopped and my friend took my photo. Too bad, I didn't really know this place anyway.
Then continued again the trip to Safdarjung's Tomb or Safdarjang's Tomb. It's a tomb belong to Mirza Muqin Abul Mansur Khan or Safdarjung. He's the Governor when Muhammad Shah lead the Mughal Emperor in 1719 to 1948. The tomb color was in Red like a common tomb in India, except Taj Mahal was in White.
I spent around 1 hour in this tomb. Walked around and took some photos.
Not far Safdarjung Tomb, I visited President's Palace, Parliament House Building and off course India Gate.
I spent around 30 minutes area. As, my stomach needed to have energy. We continued to Janpath Road and parked motorcycle over there. Next to Janpath Road, there were some restaurants.
I chose South Indian food. Due to, some food were liked Indonesian food. Like "apam" or Indonesian called "apem".
After that we decided go to Janpath area. Janpath was famous for tourism area. You can find or buy any souvenirs. I bought Indian map and door ornaments from street seller. It's cheaper rather than I bought from store. But you still need to do bargain. Sometimes, the price was over too high. Once again, I loved to bargain. Anyway, Janpath was closed to Palika Bazar (underground bazar) and Connaught Place (3/4 circle building). Just like one stop shopping center.
My friend told me to go to Chandni Chowk if I wanted to buy saree. The price at Janpath or Palika and CP was too high. So, my friend asked to walk to Central Park next to Palika Bazar or CP, we went to underground MRT at Rajiv Chowk. New Delhi got MRT (they called it Delhi Metro) already and Jakarta still needed to develop this MRT.
In New Delhi, you needed to queue when you'd like to use MRT. They got separated line for male and female and needed to scan you stuff. Lots of police were incharge to do body checking. They were so details and tight. Too bad, I couldn't take photo. When my friend took my photo, a policemen asked him to erased the photo. Anyway, I still got one photo in front of Delhi Metro Map.
The train was full packed of people. We reached Chandni Chowk MRT Station by less than 10 minutes. Chandni Chowk was the center of saree in New Delhi. This area closed to Jama Masjid and Lahore Gate/India Gate. This market was so wide and you bought many kind of things. Like gold, silver, souvenirs, shoes, food and many more. Even in the small path you may find many stores inside. Not just like that, even you will surprise with the stores upstairs of the building.
I got headache with all things. You can find saree from cheap price until expensive one. You just needed to focus and smart to bargain.
I was looking for medium price of saree. I visited a store and I found saree like what I wanted. I bought 2 pieces of saree for my mom. Each saree got 7 meters and I must pay Rs 3000 for both sarees. Not bad price. It's so smooth saree and good quality.
At Chandni Chowk, you needed to focus. As, this area was full of things. Like three wheel vehicle, motorcycle, bicycle, rigshaw, small car or even truck. Off course people. If you didn't want to get hit or accident, so be careful.
The weather was getting cold again. So, we had to get back to Janpath Road. As, his motorcycle was parking there. First, we needed to use bus and secondly, we had to walked until India Gate.
Too bad, there was no bus passing through Janpath. So, we stopped otto. After got hard bargain, we got our otto to Janpath. I asked my friend to stopped by near Connaught Place. As, I wanted to see this area. We turned off at outer Connaught Place. Connaught Place got 2 separated buildings. Outer and inner building. In between, there was a road.
At Connaught Place, you can find hotel, cinema, clothing store, book store, restaurants, banks and so on. There was a famous small store and called Kaventer. Lots of people queue for bought beverage like milkshake. This shake was so famous and people didn't mind to get queue. You have try it someday.
We walked again to Palika Parking. Wow, lots of men were over there. On top of Palika Parking, it was place for men to men meeting area. We were just passing through, as I needed to find traditional sandal for my mom at Palika Bazar or Janpath.
I got headache at Palika Bazar, as lots of people inside there and the seller screamed to offer their stuff. So, I decided to buy at Janpath. I got some pairs of sandal for my mom at Janpath.
The weather was getting cooler and cooler. I told my friend that I wanted to had omelet and cardamom tea - my favorite tea. We bought omelet and cardamom tea near motorcycle parking area. It made my body warmer. After I got full stomach, I had to get back to Gurgaon. On the way back to Gurgaon, the road got thick fog and the wind was so cold. My friend offered me to use bus. But I rejected. I wanted to get this experience in my life.
Nearly 9 pm, I reached my apartment in Gurgaon. It was a great experience to had first winter time in India. And I missed that moment already.
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