Moderne and clean New Delhi

Before our journey towards Ladhak and leaving for Manali, we had to visit New Delhi, as in the modern governmental monuments of Delhi. There was no better way of going there than by using the metro. Scared of being cramped into a too small wagon like in most of the world's capital, the sky was the limit of our delight when we entered and almost empty and air-conditioned wagon.





New Delhi has nothing to do with India, apart from the children playing in the artificial lakes. Apart from their joyful playing and games, New Delhi and its governmental buildings are almost empty: large clean roads with (almost) no one, large green lawns with (almost) no one.

The large avenue descending towards the Indian gate and the Indian Gate itself have a small flavour of Paris and its Champs Elysees and Arc de Triomphe. The only difference here is that you must go down the avenue to get to the Indian Gate instead of going up as in Paris.

Being in the South of Delhi we decided to walk to the mini Taj Mahal, I mean Humayun’s tomb. It is such a pity to wait for a person’s death to honour him... Apart from this "philosophical gist", it was quite a nice visit.



Before concluding these few posts on New Delhi, I wanted to add a few words on tourist life (in India and in general).

The first joy of being far away from home is wanting to keep in touch with home. I have never given my family as much news as when I was in India. The quantity of information in family relationships seams inversely proportional to distance.... And all this was done thanks to nice little computers at the back of shops of all sorts,... my favourite being this little computer at the end of a shoe shop.



Another joy of being a tourist is reading all the security and sanitary measures you must take. I read them and did take them into account. I met some people completely paranoid and would like to say that is possible to visit India without being too sick and without any problem. But please, people, don’t be too confident…..do not get your ears cleaned in the middle of New Delhi.... I hope they still hear...