New Delhi - Taj Mahal completed Around midnight we arrive in Delhi on Tuesday evening and a walk in the direction of Anoop Hotel, started in our India adventure exactly 10 months. We remember, as we have ventured from their hotel rooms shy glances down at the Main Bazaar and think, 'My goodness, what happens when everything that we should dare to go down? " Today we have to laugh.
As in the previous blog mentioned the Main Bazaar looks at the time of fairly crass. Now, at night, like he a ghost town. In Anoop we get two great rooms for 600 rupees. Actually, they are more expensive AC room but the AC is turned off just at our request. The rooms are spotless and the bathroom as well. We are really surprised we have our first Anoop room 10 months ago but not so great memories. Has the hotel really positive change by 150% or have we adapted ourselves to the Indian standard? Probably a mixture of both.
On our second last day we sleep from working, then do a little sightseeing and make us buy a day pass so for the new metro. Sorry, too late, we notice that the U-Bahn, which should bring us to the Lotus Temple, is even not yet in operation. So we have to change to a bus and realized for the first time that Delhi has immense size. We pour gallons of water in our throats, which are constantly dry out on. About Delhi is a huge pall of smog, the result of heat and fumes. In our small bus odyssey we still achieve the generous system of the Lotus Temple, which is beautiful and imposing.
On the postcard, where the environment green and the sky is blue, it is of course much better, but we all still find it very great.
The Lotus Temple is open to all religions and should be a place of meditation, relaxation and spirituality. It is based on the idea of Baha-movement, which rightly says that we all belong together and it does not matter what religion we belong to. For these statements, the Baha-I's were once persecuted, denounced as a heretic and tortured and murdered en masse. I see this as a confirmation of the idea of Sri Aurobindo's. It needs people who believe in the divine and try this for the benefit of the community to live. Religions does not need it! Man / woman remember me, how many wars and fights it on this, the world is ours, which are based ultimately on only religious contradictions or misunderstandings or be performed even in "God's name. Most of them are even parties who really believe in the same God, but because of the interpretations and interpretations of their religions mixed up in the hair. Since only stay a few conflicts, which, because of diminishing resources such as oil or be discharged. To make
not play an endless bus ride, we want to try this time to get the train back to the vicinity of the Metro network. So we go on foot to the Okhla station, we suddenly find quite get into the slums, the amount, keep the Indians as travelers, the railway tracks to again Perron. Once more, we are the stark contrast between rich and poor in India tough out before our eyes. In a metropolis like Delhi, where about twice as many people as live in all of Switzerland, the gap between have and have not quite blatantly apart. But it makes us not afraid to go here next to these people. We will no longer be considered as usual, the people go about their daily "work" to hang around, sleep, sort waste, begging, cooking, etc. Of course, we see again and again children and young people who rumschnüffeln on plastic bags, rags and come along zerlaust and have probably never seen a school from the inside. Or it has some really bad distorted figures, which are sitting or lying on the roadside. Accustomed to this picture yourself when you are in India as long as we do. As far as I may remember, I've been in these 10 months not a single rupee to a beggar or a beggar. It sounds maybe crass. But does it really do anything. As long as the children for begging, they deserve to be unsure of their parents sent to school. I keep seeing many Indians travelers, which donate one or two rupee, a five or ten Rupienschein. Most people do well because of their karma. It soothes the conscience, perhaps a little help, however, not to solve a problem, it does not. Since we have our "use" made in Kiran, my rejection of the many begging is a little easier. The problem as such I consider simply off as unsolvable. Nevertheless, this does not mean that one should just sit back and do nothing. On the contrary, man / woman is there to make a contribution, where it really brings something longer term. As for example in Kiran. Since people will be helped in a way that it has hand and foot. So that the following sentence has its validity:
A world
in a man suffers less
is a better world
!
So now I am somewhat digressed, but never mind ...
goes on no train station and we would still change again therefore we decide to have a tuk-tuk to take us to the nearest Metro station. By Metro we drive, or near the Red Fort, Jama Masjid still pass through the large mosque and then go on foot to the next metro station.
Red Fort
We get really full in the Muslim Bazaar district. It is wonderful. So many people, a crowd and honking. Everywhere, products offered and in many places, meat is cooked. Louis rotates by almost running him in the mouth-watering. We enjoy total, once India pur! In
Main Bazaar we almost suffocated because it is so dusty and we get to fix snoozed in the Anoop. We are doubly happy to have such nice rooms and a tip-top have a functioning shower. And of course, watching TV (my kids).
For our last day in India, we have yet made the Gandhi Museum and the Observatory. Although we have already visited in a Madurei Gandhi Museum, we are interested in the "Father of India" so that we do want to know more about him. The museum is located at the place where Gandhi lived and was shot dead last, finally, too. His last walk and the location of the attack are impressive and move me very much.
Mahatma Gandhi's last walk
site of the assassination
In the older part of the museum, where to see including Gandhi's spartan room, It has many photographs and successful key scenes from Gandhi's life, in the form of dolls boxes.
The upper, more recent, only five years since the existing part is very modern and with a lot of technology. It's the best museum we have seen so far in India. Actually, one would need much more time and much more energy to see everything in detail. Nevertheless, we take our time - not just as the Indians once more travelers, flitting in the fast pace of the exhibition - until we can not anymore.
the museum about this, not only for India but for the whole humanity so unique man, a good conclusion. So we let the observatory observatory and be drive back to the hotel. Heading is on much wind and the dust and dirt of the street is being swept away as part of a sandstorm. We be powdered very fine, looking forward to a shower, a good meal in the last Anoop and the Swiss clean air.
And as I sit here writing, it is already half as much as eight. In two hours we will get into the taxi to the airport in six hours and we are already in the air. I get a lump in my throat.
(Rémy)
Here is the link to the current map
