Some shopping in Delhi!

(Delhi, India, 2nd of Sep 2016)

We will now soon leave Delhi. We have not seen much of the city but we have taken in a large dose of India. The smells, sounds, people, rickshaws, cows and garbage in a mess – it is altogether India. Extremely fascinating but also taking a lot of energy. Yesterday we went to visit Old Delhi to feel the atmosphere of the bazaar and the Spice Market, said to be Asia’s largest, but just when we got there, the sky opened up and we realized that the market would not be to fun to visit. Instead we took a rickshaw to the central parts of town and we finally ended up in

Connaught place where we visited an underground market full of Western clothes, electronic gadgets and Indian fabrics, and a lot of nice shops with everything from clothes to furniture.

The market was a crazy place that reminded much of a market for example in Istanbul where you get confronted by the vendors all the time. The rest of Connaught place felt almost like a shopping street at home. The houses, which are built in a circle around a park named Central Park, is apparently built by a homesick Englishman, great, white and majestic. Johan bought a kurta with attached vest and pants in a shop called Fabindia – he looked really nice!