Adventures in Old Delhi!

Carl in front of the Red Fort

Yesterday Carl arrived all the way from America! He wanted to get a real taste of India and I was ready for an adventure after trying to read the Bhagavad Gita for a week. We headed out to old Delhi via the metro. We got lost twice in the a crazy small back allies of the bazars. As we walked deeper and farther into the markets, sunlight disappeared and pathways got longer and narrower. We started asking a lot of questions about what we were seeing around us. For example how does anyone make enough money to survive on; there seems to be way too many products and not enough people buying them. There was what felt like a square mile of tiny shops all right next to each other selling the exact same light bulbs...all the shops were the EXACT same! Also there seems to be a million rickshaws but no one is riding them! The drivers are all sitting on the side of the road. 

Carl and I decided that there are some things, probably most things, that we will never understand about India. Like why would a man on the side of the street ask me if I would like my ear cleaned whilst holding a q-tip? Seriously, why? Has anyone ever said yes to that man?!

Namaste!