Delhi Activities
Once comfortably settled in a hotel in Delhi of ones choice, one can spend days, even weeks exploring all Delhi has to offer. Here are some activities which can be indulged in right from your hotel in Delhi.
First and foremost visit the sprawling Akshardham Temple, the stupendous Baha’i Temple (built as a gigantic 27-petalled lotus); the vast white marbled Bangla Sahib Gurudwara with its golden dome and the Lakshmi Narayan Temple near Connaught Place.
The Sound and Light shows at Red Fort and ISKON Temple are a must see. There are the fabulous Mughal monuments and relics- magnificent Red Fort, India’s largest mosque the Jama Masjid, Humayun’s Tomb, Nizammudin Dargah, the Qutab Minar Complex etc . Nearly every hotel in Delhi has a travel help desk that organizes excellent excursions to these places.
Trek across Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi (Asia’s 400 years old market!). Start at Fatehpuri Mosque, down Khari Baoli passing Chunnamal Haveli, a 126-room still inhabited mansion, the Gurudwara Sisganj (founded 1784) and finish at the Jama Masjid.
Visit nearby Connaught Place crammed with restaurants, shops, airline offices, banks. Also the National Gallery of Modern Art and the National Museum merit a visit. Feast on the interesting handicrafts Emporia, one for each of India’s 28 states, on Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Connaught Place. Gaze awestruck at the ancient astronomical observatory at Jantar Mantar nearby (built 1710 A.D.)
Most of the luxury budget hotels in Delhi are situated in the Karol Bagh Connaught Place areas. There are also a wide range of cheap yet decent hotels in Delhi in next door Paharganj.
Shop till you drop – Delhi is a shoppers paradise for every pocket, product and taste – from Connaught Place, Karol Bagh (asia’s largest retail market), to Sarojini Nagar, Lajpat Nagar, Greater Kailash, Khan Market, Hauz Khas to name just a few. Delhi’s new metro rail has a station just outside each of these spots.
For foodies there are endless restaurants, from the chic up market to the more homely, midrange right down to the little roadside stalls. Variety swerves from Mughlai to Italian, Thai to continental, plus thousands of delicacies from hundreds of different communities in India. Most hotels in delhi too have excellent world class restaurants, barbeques, coffee cum snack bars.
Drive down the elegant wide boulevard, the Rajpath, from Rashtrapati Bhavan towards India Gate – which is a 42 Meter high archway that is a national war memorial. Its surrounding green, velvety lawns are a very popular evening and holiday rendezvous for young and old alike. The Rashtrapati Bhawan (Presidential Palace) is an impressive building. Its sprawling, meticulously tended Mughal Gardens have an amazing assembly of 250 different types of roses and 60 types of beaugonvilla.
With an unprecedented boom in India tours & travel, the number of hotels in Delhi have skyrocketed just within a decade to thousands. Most tourists prefer to stay at a luxury budget hotel in Delhi. All the places mentioned above are within easy reach from Karol Bagh, Connaught Place areas.
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