Delhi was the first stop, I was there for approximately 5 days or so, and this is where I met up with the tour group. As a city it has some fantastic monuments and good shopping but having seen them and done that, it doesn't really grab me.
This is a picture of the main entrance from inside the Jama Masjid (Friday Mosque) in Delhi, the largest mosque in India. You can climb one of the minarets (see far left) and get great views of Delhi. The court yard you can see in the foreground is large enough to hold 24,000 Muslims. Later that day a 10,000 a side soccer game broke out. The scorers were Mohaommud 6, Mohaommud 6, Mohaommud 4 and singles each to Mohaommud, Mohaommud and Mohoammud.
India has many religious monuments and more forts then you can point a cannon at. The catch cry of the tour group was YAFF (yet another forting fort). While accomodation can be somewhat lacking at times, to say the least, for the living. The dead can have some pretty flash digs. This is the Moghul Emperor Humayun's (he masscred the Hindu's...I masscred his name) tomb. The Muslims bury their dead in tombs like this while the Hindu's cremate theirs, either throwing the ashes into the holy Ganges or burying the ashes in Cenotaphs .
I was disturbed to hear recently that the Sydney Opera house had been reporting missing. The article said it had last been seen drinking with the Statue of Liberty in a pub in North Sydney, the two being seperated with the Opera House left to hook-up with the Eiffel Tower. Well I'm happy to report that the Opera House has turned up safe and sound in Delhi and is currently enjoying the sights, sounds and foods of India.
In reality this is called the Lotus Temple, the resemblance with the flower is clear, and is a non-denominatial temple where you can go to make a prayer. The inside is as spectacular as you would expect from the roof (and completely silent) and the outside has some nice water pools surrounding it.
Cheers and best wishes,
Dodgy
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