Today I have a three different sets of photos to share from our travels in India. I know it’s a lot, so just imagine how we felt the day of! Let’s dive right in.
After wrapping up the wedding festivities we were ready to continue the adventure by visiting the sights in Delhi. We started off with a taxi ride up to Chandigarh to catch our flight. As you might imagine, even just the ride was an adventure for us, complete with seeing an elephant on the road.
We had a short flight to Delhi where we met our driver and guide. We started by visiting the Qutb Minar, an minaret and “victory tower” from the 12th century. Given its height the tower was quite impressive, but personally I was really blown away by all of the intricate carved sandstone around the site. The intricacy and depth of the carvings was unlike anything we have seen before.
The colors of the stone were also very beautiful. patchwork of different colors in the walls gave the whole site a lot of character. We only ended up spending about an hour at the site, but I would definitely be up for another visit in the future.
We got back in the car and headed towards the heart of New Delhi where our hotel was. We made a few small stops along the way to see a couple of the main sights in the area, including the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the home of multiple government offices, and the India Gate, a WWI memorial.
After a couple of photo stops we headed to our hotel to unwind for the evening. Even that proved to be an experience though: Our room included a small statue and a beautiful view of the Jantar Mantar, a set of large astronomical observatories built in the 18th century.
All in all it was a long and exciting day, but also one punctuated with more and more bad news about the spread of COVID-19 around the world, so we got to bed early so we could rest and recuperate.
