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The minute we left our plane in Indira Gandhi Airport we understood what we didn’t miss anything outside North India: The heat wave, together with unexpected pre-monsoon moist was really unbearable.
On the other hand, the shopping was much better…. The Main Bazaar street, one of the prototype of hangout places for backpackers is packed with really cheap (and sometimes even good quality) shops and ‘emporiums’ selling many many different kinds of Indian merchandise, mostly clothing, pillow cases, bed covers, incense, musical instruments, bags but also very good looking antique furniture.
We didn’t do alot except for shopping, and arranging our bags for Sarit’s departure. We tried to visit the Bahai Lotus Temple, taking an autoriksha there just to discover it was ‘closed on Monday’ like most of Delhi sites…
Some rain signaled the arrival of the monsoon to this area, making the ugly main bazaar also very muddy… I took a sight-seeing tour, just to discover that sight-seeing is not so exciting, and the very nice New Delhi picnic area around the India Gate, every sunset.
To summarize, for us Delhi was mainly the end of our trip together and also a good shopping place… Sarit got on the plane, leaving for her new job that starts on Sunday, and leaving me behind, for a couple of weeks, to get another small glimpse of the Himalaya before I come back home.
Hey! You still have a chance to leave a comment and greet Sarit before she starts her new job!