India - Day 3

Sorri, lame tak update cite ... bizi aar. Okay here goes >>>>



24/11 – Delhi

~ Today’s agenda is to venture around the city of Old Delhi. Kuar umah at 10am. 1^st on the list is Indian Gate… Went tru morning traffic … again, then the driver started asking around for the route to the gate… even though there’s a signboard showing the way. Then, we found out that he is actually from Chennai, ( bru start keje, b4 this, bawak treller across the expressway throughout India, and he’s never driven within the city of Delhi … cannot read properly lak tu…sikit2 jer … Bengang betoii la  *%@!!) Pagi2 lagi da buat papa pissed off !! Now, we r the one guiding him wif our GPS kat hp … lepas pusing2, sampai gak kat Indian Gate. The place is something like our Tugu Peringatan la…

The Indian Gate is the national monument of India. India Gate was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Originally known as All India War Memorial, commemorates the 90,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who lost their lives while fighting for the British Indian Empire, or more correctly the British Raj in World War I and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. It is composed of red sand stone and granite. Burning in a shrine under the arch of India Gate since 1971 is the Amar Jawan Jyoti (the flame of the immortal soldier) which marks the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The shrine itself is a black marblecenotaph with a rifle placed on its barrel, crested by a soldier's helmet. Each face of the cenotaph has inscribed in gold the words "Amar Jawan" (Immortal Warrior). Standing right behind the gate is an empty canopy made out of sandstone, also designed by Lutyens, and inspired by a 18th century Mahabalipuram pavilion.

Me .. in front of  India Gate

Ni org2 yg jual tepi2 jalan tu .. Jual air panas..kopi o tea .. x yah bukak gerai ape pun

Ni lak jual some sort of salad. Macam timun + tomato + sos ape ntah and kacang buh dlam cawan ... macam our corn in cup tuu.

 ~ Pas ni, we headed to Connaught Place, shopping place (which is supposed to be just around the corner) .. lepas pusing2 and rounds of heated conversations between papa n driver, sampai la jugaak .. We walked alround the Rajiv Chowk, (something like dataran merdeka, wif shopping area kat bawah), ade pasar malam kat situ, and surrounded by shopping malls around the chowk. Tengah jalan tu we saw this guy  (pic kat bawh ...) macam ni pun ade!! Tidur kat tgh padang tuu.... Ape kes ni....???

ni pun adaaaaa.... ?@#$%??

~ Time now is already 3pm, we wanted to squeeze in Jama’ Masjid or Red Fort to our list … but wif our ‘kayu” driver ( as papa called him), I doubt that we can reach either one in time, … coz malam nti, his frenz ajak out for dinner…Esok na

~ I was quite upset, we did not get to visit the Red Fort, Jama’ Masjid, Humayyum Tomb, Qutub Minar, Jantar Mantar ….

·         The Red Fort was the palace for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's new capital, Shahjahanabad, the seventh city in the Delhi site. He moved his capital here from Agra in a move designed to bring prestige to his reign, and to provide ample opportunity to apply his ambitious building schemes and interests.

·       The Jama Masjid of Delhi is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. Commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, and completed in the year 1656 AD, it is the largest and best-known mosque in India. The mosque was the result of the efforts of over 5,000 workers, over a period of six years.^[2]. The cost incurred on the construction in those times was 10 lakh (1 million) Rupees, and it was same Emperor who also built theTaj Mahal, at Agra and the Red Fort, which stands across the Jama Masjid, which was finally ready in 1656 AD, complete with three great gates, four towers and two 40 m-high minarets constructed of strips of red sandstone and white marble.

·         The Humayyum Tomb is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun, was built by the orders of Hamida Banu Begum, Humayun's widow, and begun in 1565, nine years after his death,and completed in 1572 AD at a cost of 15 lakh rupees (1.5 million) at the time.

·         The Qutub Minar is a tower located in Delhi, India. It is the world's tallest brick minaret with a height of 72.5 meters (237.8 ft). Construction commenced by Qutubuddin Aibak who won Delhi from the Prithviraj under Mohammed Ghori as his commander in chief,and finished by Iltutmish, The Qutub Minar is notable for being one of the earliest and most prominent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture.

·         The Jantar Mantar primary purpose of the observatory was to compile astronomical tables, and to predict the times and movements of the sun, moon and planets. Some of these purposes nowadays would be classified as astrology.  It consists of 13 architectural astronomy instruments, built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1724 onwards, and is one of five built by him,

~ so we headed home …. Stopped for lunch @ kat Ansal Plaza, shopping mall near umah, makan piza @ Piza Hut… vege of course!!

~ Malam , 8.00pm, we (Papa, Izam, Sani, Danny & me, sorang jer bunga d celah kumbang2 ni…) had dinner at Karim’s Place. Kelakar dengar Izam cakap Hindustan stail melayu...  Tp, ok la tu …We had Ciken Tikka, Butter nan wif gravy, ciken briyani, and one whole lamb leg & plain water… mak aai… sebelah kaki kambing selambak ateh pinggan … Izam n Sani were shoving down the lamb cam cannibal … macam flinstone!! Doesn’fancy much bout the lamb, though.The yogurt was sedaaap... Tak sama la their briyani wif the one in Mesia... To me sedap lagi our briyani...

 END of DAY 3 v

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