Raj ghat is the marble platform that marks the place where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated after he was assassinated in 1948. Surrounding the area are beautiful green spaces and parks.
Qutub Minar, another world heritage site, is a wonderful structure built in the southern part of Delhi. We rushed through this site so I didn’t have enough time to see it properly.
The Lotus Temple was built in 1987 by the believers of the Baha’i faith. The temple signifies the purity and equality of all religions. Doesn’t it remind you of the Sydney Opera House?
This is the Lakshmi Narayan Temple also know as Birla Mandir, a large Hindu temple built in Orissan style in 1938. Photography wasn’t permitted inside. I took this from across the street. Luke, the other foreigner on my tour, and I had our own special room to remove our shoes and store them. The natives stored their shoes out in the open.
After lunch we took a speedy tour through the Red Fort built by Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal.
Humayun’s Tomb was built by his widow, the Queen Haji. It is supposed to be the prototype of the Taj Mahal. It’s another World Heritage Site.
Jantar Mantar here in Delhi is another one of those astronomical observatories built by Maharaja Jai Singh the second. Built in 1724, the mathematician and astrologer built the other one that I had seen in Jaipur.