Showing posts with label Old Delhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old Delhi. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 September 2014

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!