Friday Sept. 29 - Delhi.
This was not to be Giules’s day. Today was the day that the great Indian food laid her low. Rather than go out and shoot photos today, she stayed at the hotel, skipping lunch, ending up by the pool reading and having a hot stone massage. Not a single photo today.
I on the other hand shot 874 images over five hours in Old Delhi.
Our guide and I started out in the train station, through which 1.1 million people a day pass. I was getting some good images until security came along and said, no more photos – the result of the terrorist bombings in India. We tried an appeal to the stationmaster, but to no avail.
However, the teeming streets of Old Delhi again beckoned. We head out through the streets near the train station, which are pandemonium with train users, freight on hand carts and being towed by bicycles, as well as small taxis, rickshaws, cattle pulling wagons - you name it.
There were many great photo opportunities on the street and then we headed to the spice market—shop after shop after shop of spices. Many colors, textures, people, but when we went upstairs in one of the blocks to the wholesalers, we met out match – so many spices in the air that we began to cough a bit. Some chai tea helped but the breathing problems did not go away until we went back to the crowded streets.
I never thought I’d be over spiced without putting it on my food. Today was such a day.
Massages at the hotel, catching up on photo editing and writing, dinner at the hotel and then off to sleep.
Off by car on Saturday to Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal.
Photo postings from the day are at Jerry's flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfon24/sets/72157627657291275/.
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