INDIA ON WHEELS - A trip for pleasure!: Delhi

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Shopping at Delhi - (II) - 32

Guys, here are more locations where you can buy the products and get a reasonable deals at Delhi.

Hauz Khas Village and Shahpur Jat are traditional villages turned into shopping bazaars. The village has a plethora of boutiques, galleries and restaurants in a "rural" ambiance. Other villages like Mehrauli, Khirkee and Lado Sarai have similar markets.

A crafts bazaar set up by Delhi Tourism is Dilli Heat. Here one can buy crafts from craftspersons.

The Santushit Shopping Arcade opposite Ashok Hotel has become another popular haunt. Developed by the Air Force Wives Association, it has a select number of boutiques where apparel, furnishings and accessories are available.

The DLF Ansal Plaza shopping plaza near South Extension is Delhi's largest covered shopping mall. A popular haunt for the young people, it has lots of designer and music stores.

For export surplus garments including t-shirts, skirts, shirts, jackets and swim wear, Sarojini nagar market in South Delhi, is the ideal place - where bargaining is the norm.

Delhi is the ideal place if you are looking for sports wear. Reebok gear is available at factory prices at Lajpat Nagar, Adidas and Nike too have factory outlets near Radisson hotel. Levis, Arrow, Allen Solly, Laco'ste showroom are found all over the city.

Shopping at DELHI - Abracadabra (I) - 31

Guys, Delhi is melting pot of many peoples and cultures. Some of India's best shipping is found in Delhi, a relatively easy place to shop as long as you know what to buy and where to go. Visitors find a wide choice of items such as carpets, silks, jewellery, leather and silver ware, handicrafts and hand printed cottons. Each item is available in a range of prices, depending on the quality and the outlet. Each of its markets has distinctive ambiance adding a special flavour to the experience of shopping.

In the old city is Chandni Chowk close to the largest mosque in Asia, the Jama Masjid. Many of the shops here are over a hundred years old and the mesh of lanes and by lanes are full of treasures to be found. Among the by lanes are Dariba, the silver market, Khari Baoli, the spice market and Kinari Bazaar for trimming and tinsel.

Connaught Place, New Delhi's original shopping arcade was planned as part of the Imperial capital in 1911. One can find up-market products here from designer stores to Chinese shoemakers.

On Baba Kharak Singh Marg, are government state emporia that offer a glimpse of handicrafts of each state. As does the Central Cottage Industries Emporium on Janpath. Across the road are a string of Tibetan shops selling accessories.

Sundernagar Market, across The Oberoi, is the place to shop for antiques and silver jewellery. The stores keep a choice selection, especially of silver jewellery from Ladakh, semi-precious stones, copper and silver object d'art. Not far from Sundernagar is the Crafts Museum Shop, attached to the museum in Pragati Maidan.

In South Delhi are the up-market shopping centres, South Extension, Greater Kailash I and II, Green Park and New Friends Colony.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Delhi : overfilled, striking colored and boisterous heart and soul of India.

Image Source : Delhi

Delhi is the second largest metropolis in India after Mumbai. Located in northern India on the banks of the River Yamuna.

Delhi has a semi-arid climate with high variation between summer and winter temperatures. Summers are long, from early April to October, with the monsoon season in between. During the summer season, the city faces extreme power and water shortages. The summer heat waves kill dozens each year. Winter starts in November and peaks in January and is notorious for its heavy fog, which often disrupts road, air and rail traffic.

Both Old and New Delhi exert an influenced by slyness beguile on visitors. Lose yourself unwinding the secrets of the city's Mughal past in the mazy streets of Old Delhi before emerging into the wide open spaces of imperial New Delhi, with its ordered governmental vistas and generous covered with leaves avenues.

The Red Fort: The Red Fort locally known as Lal Quila, is Delhi's distinguishing style attraction, rising high above the blare of Old Delhi as a reminder of the wealth and power of the Mogul empire. The monolithic arenaceous rock walls were built in the 17th century to keep out predatory encroachers and still prevail the skyline today. Inside are an array of dainty buildings, which once provided the living quarters for Shah Jehan, his courtiers, family and staff of three thousand. Visitors can wonder at the complex medal and only imagine the scenes here at the empire's height when the walls were constellated with precious stones and a 'stream of paradise' drove an imaginative air conditioning system. The fort was the scene of the Indian uprising of 1857 and the mighty Lahore Gate, on the west side of the fort, remains a potent symbol in the fight for Independence.

Chandni Chowk: Missing your visit at Chandani Chowk, it means you are unsuccessful to grab the good moments of Delhi. It would be complete without a visit to one of the bazaars that surround Chandni Chowk (Moonlight Square), in Old Delhi, where shops and stalls display a wonderful array of goods and offer a mordacious and colourful insight into Delhi life. Chandni Chowk has a large number of galis (lanes) and each one is different, with their own atmosphere and smells. Naya Bazaar, on Khari Baoli, is the spice market that displays a wonderful selection of foodstuff in neat, colourful piles. The nearby Gadodial Market is the wholesale spice market. Hundreds of spices and flavorings can be found including aniseed, ginger, pomegranate, saffron, lotus seeds, pickles and chutneys, to name just a few. Chor Bazaar sits behind the ramparts of the Red Fort and comes to life on Sundays to trade a collection of 'second hand' goods. Chawri Bazaar was once notorious for the ladies who beckoned men from the arched windows and balconies above street. Today, these houses have made way for shops specialising in brass and copper Buddhas, Vishnus and Krishnas. Some of the busiest galis house the poultry and fish markets, east of Kalan Mahal, but most tourists wisely avoid them.

If you are on the tour of Delhi, do not miss to visit at Jama Masjid, Qutb Minar, Humayun’s Tomb and Rashtrapati Bhavan ... the list has no bounds.

Friends, waiting for you at Delhi...

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