We arrived at our hotel in Delhi at about 3.30 am on Sunday and after just 4 hours sleep were having breakfast and then off on a tour of the city. This included visits to the Jama Masjid (or Friday Mosque), Raj Ghat the place of Gandhi’s cremation and the Ghandi Museum located on the spot where he was assassinated. Delhi is a huge conglomeration of 20 million people comprising many sectors. Prime among these is New Delhi designed by Edward Lutyens and built by the British at the beginning of the 20th Century. This is now where all the embassies seem to be situated.
Given our lack of sleep, the tour became a bit of a blur, compounded by the amazing traffic conditions which exist on Indian roads. Every kind of vehicle imaginable (bicycle rickshaws, three wheeler taxis, bullock carts, lorries, buses, motorbikes, bikes, cars) none of them obeying any obvious rules. A roundabout is not an ordered junction but a point where all the vehicles come together with a “let the best man win” philosophy. Everyone charges on at once and miraculously seem to miss crashing into one another. However, we survived and returned to our hotel for a good night's sleep.
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