There came a point during my stay at the hostel in Delhi when people would gasp at hearing I'd been living here for as long as I had. In the end, I spent over three weeks in this town during this trip. Normally, this is not a city one would voluntarily choose to live in for more than the time it takes to catch their next flight out. Most travellers I met were simply using Delhi as a transit hub.
And even I felt like I had to get out after that much time or else risk turning as stagnant as the pools of raw sewage on the side of the street - a common sight in Delhi. I had spent a week taking a motorcycle class and another one renting a scooter to acclimate myself to driving in India. With this done, it was probably long since time that I moved on.
So when my last day in Delhi began, I decided it would be most fitting to take a stroll through the neighborhoods of Old Delhi; specifically, the boroughs named Chandni Chowk and Pahar Ganj. While the rest of the city industrializes rapidly in a race to catch up with the West as well as the rest of Asia, Old Delhi is the one part of the city that time seems to have left behind. It's dirty, overcrowded and, for me at least, absolutely fascinating.
These are some photos from my last day in Delhi, dated November 25.
And even I felt like I had to get out after that much time or else risk turning as stagnant as the pools of raw sewage on the side of the street - a common sight in Delhi. I had spent a week taking a motorcycle class and another one renting a scooter to acclimate myself to driving in India. With this done, it was probably long since time that I moved on.
So when my last day in Delhi began, I decided it would be most fitting to take a stroll through the neighborhoods of Old Delhi; specifically, the boroughs named Chandni Chowk and Pahar Ganj. While the rest of the city industrializes rapidly in a race to catch up with the West as well as the rest of Asia, Old Delhi is the one part of the city that time seems to have left behind. It's dirty, overcrowded and, for me at least, absolutely fascinating.
These are some photos from my last day in Delhi, dated November 25.
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| Bicycle rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk |
