Starting from New Delhi train station we took an auto to Connaught Place - a big round about with three street circles around it, a central parc in the middle and many shops and restaurants as well as an underground market.
I sent my books home from the post office to get rid off some heavy stuff in my luggage and then we checked the markets. We exited them having bought some more shawls and incenses.
The next auto took us to the IndiaGate where a lot of army people were busy to get everything ready for some big parades: Army and Republic Day Parade.
From here we went to the Red Fort and as it was already late we could only enter for the sound and light show. So we ventured until the open-air theatre point along the bazaar and past the Diwan-i-Am where the Mughal Emperor listened to the requests of the public. The show was nice with lights and the history of the fort and the mughals, but unfortunately in Hindi and our ability to understand not yet so good. As the cold drew in with the evening we decided to leave early and take the new metro home.
The Delhi metro is new, secure and the tidiest public place in India as it is forbidden to eat, drink and chew betel or bubble gum. A very pleasant experience. Only on the station names they could do better or include the Metro in the map.
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