Exploring Delhi I

I've done a little exploring around Delhi on my weekends, trying to see the big sights and also to find some green space and relax. I've gone to a number of places by now and hopefully will make it to a few more in my last month. Here's a picture-heavy post - enjoy!

Dilli Haat is a market that has a craft booth and food booth from each of India's 28 states. It's much more spread out than most Indian markets and less pressure to buy.

Pretty blue pottery from the Rajasthan stall

Lodi Gardens is a huge park downtown with temples from the 1400s. It was a great place to enjoy a chocolate-peanut butter milkshake from nearby Khan Market and read the Kindle. There is a jogging track around it, but I'm way too busy exploring and eating Indian food to go for a run :)

Lodi Gardens temple

Red Fort is...a big red fort from the 1600s. It's impressive from the front and inside consists of gardens, a museum on the fight for independence from Britain, and more temples. I had a less than stellar time because it was incredibly crowded, but I'm sure it's a nice place. *UNESCO World Heritage Site*

I know, it's the awful self-portait photo. Representing DC rugby from inside the Red Fort walls.

India Gate. Where a lot of the protests have been happening and January 6, it was already fenced off (for the Independence Day celebrations on January 26?). Unfortunately like many of my pictures here, the Delhi fog/smog makes it hard to get a great photo.

Deer Park! This guy had big fuzzy antlers.

His friends did not.

Hauz Khas means "royal water tank" and was built in the 1300s. It sits at the bottom of Deer Park and has a great two-story building that is surrounded by small rotundas used as classrooms.

Fellow intern friends! Emily, who just arrived the night before from Canada, and Katy,  from Scotland, who is my fellow Reproductive Rights intern. Enjoying Hoegaarden and paninis in a nice restaurant in Hauz Khas.

Probably my favorite thing in Delhi so far - Humayun's Tomb. It has a huge garden set out in a grid pattern with the tomb at the center and smaller buildings around the side. Lots of open green space and beautiful construction that is well-maintained from the 1500s.

My next update will be about traveling to Jaipur. I'm also planning to upload another all-photo post with peacocks and my street dogs I see every day walking to work.

I have less than a month, and I will probably spend 9 days on a fact finding in early February. I can't believe I'm already thinking ahead about Europe and spring quarter classes! Here's the map with many of the places above, and more places that I will be visiting.