A Visit to Delhi, India

Soni GA
Delhi is the second-largest metropolis state in India. Delhi is a capital of India. Delhi is very populated area where you can find all religions people of India & other foreign peoples. It is a very busy & popular place of India. Delhi has many kind of religion structures such as temples(Hindu people), gurudwara(Sikh people), Masjid(Muslim People) Churches(Christian people.)

Delhi has many best tourist places. Some place is also known as old Delhi. In Old Delhi, Mughals and Rulers constructed so many monuments here such as Red Fort, Qutab Minar, Three world Heritage sites and Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, Jantar Mantar .You can find 175 monuments here.Old Delhi has many bazaars. Chandni Chowk is a very famous place of Old Delhi. It has many shops. This is an open shopping area where you can buy many items ; Jewellery, Sarris, handicrafts, Clothes. Pickles, Spices Sweets, Jewlery & much more.Zardozi (an embroidery done with gold thread) and Meenakari (the art of enameling) is very famous art of Old city. It is very affordable market of Delhi. Old City has excellent restaurants. They offer fast foods to vegetarian foods & Non -vegetarian here. Some places are also offers Indian best handicrafts such as Delhi Haat, Hauz Khas, Pragti Maidain. Pragti Maidan is very popular place of India. Pragti Maidain offers many kinds of states exhibition. You can buy handicrafts, jewellery, clothing, shoes & more stuff from here. Delhi has so many beautiful temples like as The Lotus Temple, Laxminarayan Temple and Akshardham, Birla Mandir, These are most example of modern architecture. It has so many governments buildings;.Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament of India & many more.You can find here Mugal garden styles architecture similar as Vijay Chowk. Safdarjung's Tomb, the Secretariat, Rajpath. It has many universties. Education is very affordable here. Some universities offer very affordable courses. Many foreigners comes here for study. Connaught Place is a best tourist attraction of New Delhi. It has many shopping markets.

These are the best tourist Places in Delhi

Monuments & Structures - Nehru House 'Teen Murti Bhavan,'. (The house of the first Prime Minister of India), Rajpath, India Gate, Parliamnet House, Lodi Estate, Rajghat, Qutab Minar, Red Fort, Poorana Kila, Humayun's Tomb.

Parks and Gardens - Nehru Garden, Lodhi Garden is popular garden of Delhi.

Museum

India Habitat Center They offer art exhibits, plays and film shows. You can find international selection of food items in its food court.

International Doll's Museum - A museum offers collections of dolls from all over the country. You can see the costumes and art from all over India. You can buy handicrafts from here at very cheap price.

National Museum - This is a big art gallery. The Museum contains many collections of some true masterpieces.

National Railway Museum - The Museum shows a collection of Indian trains. Children can also ride the train.

Teen Murti Bhavan - This is a former residence of India's first prime minister( Jawaharlal Nehru). Now Its converts into museum.

Tibet House- It offers exhibition space and library.

Religious buildings

Chhattarpur Mandir(Temple)- It is a very beautiful temple. It has many beautiful statues of Hindu God. Many people come here for wishes. This is located at near Mehrauli area of South Delhi.

Lakshmi Narayan Temple It also known as Birla Mandir. It is located at next to Connaught Place. It is a very big & excellent Hindu temple of Delhi. It has so many beautiful statues. It is very big complex.
Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple- This is a very huge temple in Delhi. It bulit with redstone. This is a very beautiful artistic structure in Delhi. It builds without any steel. The temple offers Imax 3d movie, boat ride, musical fountains. Imax 3d movie describes about story of this temple. Boat ride is excellent ride that explains about history. Musical fountain show presents about beauty of Hindu gods. This is a very beautiful show. Entry is free here.

Bahá'í Lotus Temple - Lotus temple is different temple from other Hindu temple. Temple does not contain any statue of Hindu god. Its looks like a lotus. It has 27 petals. This is a very beautiful white temple. Entry is free here.

Gurudwara Bangla Sahib - It is located at Connaught Place. Many Sikhs come here for prey. This is the main gurudwara of Sikhs in Delhi. You cannot enter without wearing a scarf on your head. They provide scarfes.

Gurudwara Sis Ganj - Its located at Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi. It is near from major attractions. You need scarves for cover your head.

Jama Masjid - It is a largest mosque in India. Muslim comes here for prey. Muslims prey with cover their shoulders and legs (scarf and lungis available for rental).

Shopping Area

Palika Bazaar, Connaught Place.- This is a large underground shopping area in the center of Connaught Place. This is a very bargaining place for shopping. You can buy DVD, VCD, electronics items, handicrafts, clothing & many more stuff. All items price are very resonable here. The prices are not real prices. You wil bargain here.

Chandni Chowk It is a heart of Old Delhi. Its very crowded area. You can buy here such as jewlery, clothes, pickle, electronics, handicrafts & much more.

Janpath - It is a bargain-hunter's place. This is a best market where you can get all kinds clothes, handicrafts, ladies & men accessories. You can buy cotton clothes at very reasonable prices from here.

Sarojni Nagar- This is a very famous market of New Delhi. Its located at south Delhi. Most foreigner buys stuff from here. This is a flea market where you can get all the stuff likes as clothing, hand bags, handicrafts, shoes & more.

South Extension It is another shopping place in South Delhi . It is big mall. You can find many international brands store here. International brands which include the likes of Mango, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Benetton, Levis, etc.

Karol Bagh - It is vary largest market in Delhi. It has 20,000 shops and traders. You can get all types of clothing here.

Computers
Nehru Place- This is Asia's largest IT hardware market in Delhi. You can find here all computers items at very cheap prices.

Published by Soni GA

I am from India.I am currently stay at home with my nice kids. I love writing articles about new things.  View profile

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  • Soni GA8/26/2007

    Thanks Layla.

  • Layla Lair8/22/2007

    I have an online friend from India. He has sent me some wonderful photos from there. Nice article Soni :-)

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