Shoping
When we flew back into Delhi we came across a group of men putting together a floral display, in the airport. It once again seeming quintessentially Indian and quite beautiful.
On our final day in India (we had a plane the next morning at 3:30 am) we went on a shopping trip to Dilli Haat, a craft and food bazaar run by the Delhi tourism and Transportation Development Corporation. It features stalls with rotating merchants / artisans selling goods made in various states throughout India. And, while you may be told that the prices in Dilli Haat are fixed, our experience is otherwise although the degree of bargaining is less than in many other places. (Our tour leader, with whom we had dinner the last night in Delhi, confirmed this.) You may also be told that all places in Dilli Haat take credit cards. This is also not so as attested to by our searching for a working ATM. The ambience of Dilli Haat is very colorful and pleasant.
and there is a wide variety of crafts sold, usually clustered in groups of similar merchandise.
You can get such varied merchandise as musical instruments
to gems and jewelry.
Coming back from Dilli Haat we spotted a Tuck-Tuck with what would certainly be an unusual, if not impossible, sight in San Francisco (where you can find discussions on Yelp on the difficulty of getting a taxi with your dog).
And, no, this wasn't Photoshopped.
A view from the hotel room on the last day shows a view of Delhi (Saket District) with a large recreational field with many different groups practicing their cricket and the high rise city just behind (and a very post, American/European style mall just below the window.
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