Delhi

Jama Masjid in Delhi
Jama Masjid in Delhi

A stark city, packed with people, an unbelievable chaos. The best thing is to sit on a cycle rickshaw and watch people go by. It’s hard to move forward, sacks of chili or whatever are being unloaded from other cycle rickshaws or bullock carts everywhere, men with all kinds of beards and headdresses, women in colourful saris scurrying through. Nowhere an empty square metre.

The great mosque (Jama Masjid) is also impressive, the Red Fort after Agra rather boring.


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