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| Traveling to Connaught Place
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| Riding a rickshaw in Delhi. Vehicles get close to each other. There
really aren't any lane markings. This video doesn't make it look as
crazy as it felt.
| More rickshaw riding. Near the beginning of the video, you can see a
commercial district.
| Squeezing our way through Delhi traffic.
| Riding through an area with nice trees.
Near the end of the
video, a surprise appears in the left side of the frame.
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We passed traffic signs different from what one sees in the states.
For instance, I learned a black sign with an X means no stopping. Also,
the no honking signs actually look like a horn with the No symbol
(a circle with a line through it) around it.
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| Connaught Place
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The taxi driver dropped us off somewhere in Connaught Place. It took us
a while to figure out where we were.
| A building with a neat structure.
| Another building with architecture I like.
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| Lunch at Banana Leaf
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| Banana Leaf, the South Indian eatery (yes, I know we were in North India)
that we chose for lunch in Delhi. Although it wasn't bad, we've all
certainly had better South Indian food. We wouldn't return.
| Onion rawa masala dosa. Pretty standard.
| A green dosa made from moon dal.
| Dahi vada: vada (lentil cakes) soaked in yogurt.
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| Drinks at Cafe Coffee Day
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The pristine cleanliness of Cafe Coffee Day. It's also
cute. It's rare that we found places up to Western standards of
cleanliness in India. Or, for that matter, found coffeehouses.
Service was slow. For instance, I ordered a green apple soda and it
took them ten minutes before they came back and said they didn't have
any. The slowness bothered me a little, but J and N a
little less so. This is when I first realized we have different
exploring speeds.
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| Old Delhi
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| My first image of Old Delhi during the daytime. Look at the massive
tangle of wires. Who needs electrical codes?
| N, looking nervous in the crowds.
| I'm not sure why I took this video. I think there was something near
the bike that was surprising. hmmm...
| More Old Delhi. There were no autos or auto-rickshaws here.
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| Colorful saris for sale.
| A good example of the general density of people, signs, and shops in Old Delhi.
| Spices.
| More spices. The spice market smelled strongly.
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| A movie of even more spice booths.
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Sometime in Old Delhi we picked up a water chestnut that had been
charbroiled with spices. I tried it. Meh.
| Yet more Old Delhi crowds. Walking was slow going, though no other form
of transportation was faster.
| A statue. And birds.
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| Sisganj Gurudwara, a Sikh temple.
| The atmospheric inside of the Sikh temple, as seen after removing our
shoes of course.
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| Snack at Haldirams
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We stopped for a breather in Haldirams, an Indian snack/sweet
shop. It's so famous and well known that it ships to the United States.
This is the view down from our seats upstairs toward one of the
counters by the entrance.
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