Puri Chana for breakfast! Oh yeah! Deep fried fluffy dough served with curried dal, curried potatoes, picked chutney and a salad of purple onions, cucumbers and green chilies. That and a coffee drink was enough to last me till dinner. Since we have an open day until our driver takes us to Jaipur and Agra, Marie and I decide to take the Metro to Connaught Place, Delhi's premier shopping district. The efficient Metro was easy enough to tackle and was fairly pleasurable. Connaught Place on the other hand was a disappointment. With the sidewalks in disrepair and a lack of high end shops, it didn't measure up to my idea of "premier" for the capitol of India. I guess I'm just spoiled when it comes to high end malls (i.e. Stanford Mall, Santana Row, Philippines' Makati Mall, London's Oxford Circle and Harrod's Dept Store. etc).
One great thing about Delhi besides the history, multitude of historical monuments, temples, palaces all of which easily out date the birth of America are the clean and well maintained streets. Through my personal experiences thus far in India, I've seen a gross amount of trash littered all over the roads, sidewalks, waterways, alleys, parks, etc and have been witness to an inordinate amount of locals tossing trash all over the place. I even saw to the horror of myself and other foreign tourists, a passing motorbike driver tossing a bag of garbage over a bridge into a river! WTF!!! Sure India is still developing and I can understand that. I just hope India realizes soon how litter detracts from the beauty of its country and of its people.
We leave for Jaipur tomorrow.
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