Old Delhi

It was really hard to pick a photo to post out of many photos I took in Old Delhi today.  Sushil grew up in Old Delhi and gave us about a 20 minute tour within the city.  This was the culture shock experience that we were suppose to experience.  I had very mixed feelings as I walked through the city of Old Delhi.  I cannot replicate in a photo the smells and the full view of what one sees while you are physically there.  Some areas I felt ashamed to take a photo as these were peoples lives, and we were a group of 14 Americans.. so naturally we were looked at by everyone!  As we walked through the streets  we would pass through living quarters that would have a bed and sometimes a dresser or television.  Sometimes it was hard to distinguish between someone's home vs. a street shop vs. the street itself.  We walked through much of the inner walls of Old Delhi as the streets are too narrow to drive anything but a bike.

The following photo of a street lined with shops, full of color.  It may be hard to tell in the photo, but as we turned down this street it was like an array of colors.  Shops were lined with everything from scarfs to jewelry.

The narrow streets within the city walls of Old Delhi.

In the photo below we are leaving Old Delhi in our tour bus.  Our destination from our hotel in Gurgaon, a suburb of New Delhi, to Delhi was 12 miles.  It took us about 1 hour to travel 12 miles.