The Chhatarpur Temple, Qutb Minar & Raj Ghat - Day 3

18th April 7.00am

With a very good rest at night we started energetic to cover few more places today. We had a very long list to cover, but we were not aware that sun is going to act against us today.

We planned to cover today the 'Chhatarpur Mandir', 'Qutb Minar', 'Birla temple' and 'Raj Ghat' also. But our starting itself got into a trouble as we ended up searching for a restaurant for our breakfast and wasted about an hour on that.

Once we are done with that, we headed straight to 'Chhatarpur Mandir' - beautifully architected and very attractive temple. We were enjoying each and every moment there. It has various temples inside for 'Ganesh', 'Radha Krishna', 'Shiva' and 'Durga'. The pathway leads you to those temples in an organized way and I am sure you will enjoy the environment and the architecture.

Below are some snaps of the temple for your eyes

From here we went directly to 'Qutb Minar'. By seeing around I can recall all our History classes in school days. Well maintained area but they don't allow you to go inside the tomb. You can watch them from outside. The mughalai architecture is really good to see.

Below are some snaps from that place

The view of 'Qutb Minar' from different distance

The surrounding area of Qutb Minar

The famous Iron Pillar in 'Qutb Complex', which is standing tall there without any rust or anything all these years. This is one of the world's foremost metallurgical curiosity. Below see the picture of the same.

A side view of the complete Qutb complex for your eyes

It is 1pm. The sun is not at all mercy on us (seems that day Delhi was highest in temp.). So we decided to wind up from here and reached our hotel. Took rest and we started again around 4.15pm and went straight to 'Raj Ghat'

Below is the Map of 'Raj Ghat'. So many great persons are resting there.

First we visited 'Raj Ghat', where our 'Father of nation' is resting. A stone which has the words of Mahatma inscribed on it, placed near the shoe rack and we walked inside to see a good number of crowd there paying their respect to him. We too stood there and paid our homage to that great person who fight for the nation to get ourself freedom.

Moving from there we reached 'Vir Bhumi' of Rajiv Gandhi

and then to 'Shakti Sthal' of Indira Gandhi

Then we reached the 'Shanthi Van' of Jawahar Lal Nehru.

With this we completed our today's trip as we planned to visit 'Haridwar & Rishikesh' the next two days, we reached our hotel a little early to take rest.

Keep watching this blog to read my blissful experience I had in 'Haridwar & Rishikesh', especially about the Ganges.

Thank you,
Ragavan

The India Gate

17th April 7.30pm

Our vehicle reached the road that leads to 'India Gate'. I had a complete look on the famous 'Raj Path', recalled those Independence / Republic day parades. Now what I see is people thronging through out the lawns near 'Raj Path'

Below is the picture I took while we entered Delhi

But in the darkness the view was completely different and excellent. Parked our vehicle on the roadside, we walked towards the famous monument. I never thought i will be visiting these places. Though it is heavily crowded you can see a numerous attractive happenings around you viz. henna painting, road side pani puri wala, bombay mittai wala, kid toys and etc.,

Below are some snaps from different distance in the night view of the great monument for your eyes.

Enjoying all those and had a pleasant walk towards the main attraction. You can see the huge monument with a Black marble Cenotaph with a rifle placed on its barrel, crested by a Soldier's helmet. Each face of the monument has inscribed the words "Amar Jawan" (Immortal Warrior) in Gold. (Below is the snap of the 'Amar Jawan')

I heard that those walls have about 90,000 soldiers names engraved on it. So was trying to locate some of them and was lucky enough to find some and capture them on my camera in that darkness. Here are they...

While look on the top of the huge tomb, I noticed "INDIA" written in a huge letters below that there were some words scribbled, how much I try I couldn't able to read them. I thought If I capture that in my camera using my zoom... may be i will use some photo tools to read that. (Still trying ha ha ha...)

Walked around that place we picked up some toy for the kid and as expected the ladies were rushing to get their hands henna painted. And not to mention, we didn't forget to enjoy the tasty 'Panipuri', the best of it's taste.

Thank you,
Ragavan