Chapter 326: Drinking until you get slightly drunk
The night before, you listened to an incomprehensible chant by the Ganges, and as soon as you left the airport this night, you saw the familiar signs of Costa and SUBWAY, as if you had taken a plane to take you through two worlds. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info With the experience, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu did not hesitate, and directly bought prepaidtaxi and went to the hotel. The streetscape along the way is a bit depressed.
The road is wide, the street lights are dim, there are basically no shops along the street, and there are few pedestrians on the road. The name of the hotel I stayed at in Delhi was chosen for my next trip to Agra. The train station is a bit closer. In fact, the snow falls and it is impossible to tell whether the location of the hotel is good or not.
Because you have to take the subway to go everywhere, but fortunately there is a station and subway station near the hotel, and there are no restaurants around the hotel, but the restaurants in the hotel can also make do. The hotel has a closed gate, and it is a small courtyard to enter, and the inside and outside of the door feels like two worlds. The road outside the door is dusty, and the small courtyard inside the door is quiet and refreshing.
The hotel does not have a lobby, only a small front desk on the first floor, and there is a glass door at the door, you need to swipe the room card to open, and it feels very safe. Most of the guests staying at the hotel are from all over the world, and most of them are young people. Although Xueluo and Liu Jingshu's room is on the first floor, it is not noisy. The rooms are decorated in white and yellow, and are simple and bright.
This style reminds Xueluo of the feeling of staying at home for 7 days many years ago when she was still studying. There is a small restaurant in the hotel, and since there are no restaurants around the hotel, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu had two dinners at the hotel. The restaurant is not big, and it offers some light meals, bread and coffee, as well as some light Indian food.
Because they were vegetarians for the past few days, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu especially wanted to eat meat, and their girlfriends who don't eat Indian food were more acceptable to butter mushroom chicken noodles, although they were not delicious, but they still ate two meals in a row. There is no better option for people who don't want to eat Indian food. The pasta is delivered from takeaway, and it is supposed to be made by a restaurant that cooperates with the hotel.
The portion is a lot, and one serving is enough for two people. When it comes to Delhi, everyone is familiar with the Red Fort, the India Gate, or the Humayun Tomb, but the first stop in Delhi Xueluo and Liu Jingshu is a rather unpopular place - (AgrsenKiBaoli).
Because this is the place where Snow Fall looks forward to the most before coming to Delhi, and it is also the place where Snow Falls loves the most when you leave Delhi. Precipitation in the subcontinent is concentrated in three months of the rainy season each year, and the remaining nine months are rarely rained, so the people of the drylands were able to understand it as early as a thousand years ago.
This unique and wonderful water storage well. Hundreds of steps descend not only to bring people closer to the water, but also to provide a place for people to cool off and socialize. However, as the times progressed, modern water pipes eventually replaced the old wells, and hundreds of stepped wells of various shapes throughout India were gradually abandoned.
Some have been landfilled, some have become garbage heaps, and some have become forgotten monuments hidden in the corners. Hailey Lane, a narrow alley in the heart of Delhi, is unassuming surrounded by high-rise buildings. However, just one look at it and you'll be amazed by this surreal architectural form!
Most of the world's buildings need to be viewed from an upward perspective, but the stepped well has changed the way people appreciate architecture. Looking down from the ground, you will find that even if you put aside the function of storing water, the building itself exudes an atmosphere of antiquity, mystery and beauty. When the snow falls on the stairs and takes pictures.
The pigeons standing around the wall suddenly flock to take off, the scene is very spectacular, Xueluo originally wanted to take such a photo with a feather in his hand, but the locals around him warned Xueluo to beware of bird flu, damn Xue Luo jumped and washed his hands several times! In addition to Delhi, there are many very beautiful stepwells in India.
If you're also interested in this peculiar architectural form, then the two stepwells below are definitely worth a visit!ChandBaoriThis stepwell, also known as the Moon Well, is located in the village of Abhaneri, 95 km from Jaipur, and was built in the 10th century and has been around for more than 1,200 years. This is the largest and deepest stepwell in India.
It is shaped like an inverted pyramid, with a depth of more than 30 meters, 13 floors, and 3,500 steps. The amazing thing is that the well was built 1,200 years ago, and it is still functioning today. The dungeon in the movie Batman: The Dark Knight Rises once imprisoned Bruce Wayne and Bane.
It was in this stepwell that the scene was taken. The world-famous Osman couple's "FollowMe" series of photos were also taken at this stepwell. RaniKiVav is a stepwell located in the Batan region of Gujarat, and legend has it that after the usurper killed the king and seized the throne, he proposed to the queen because of his love for her, and the queen asked the usurper to build an ornate stepwell for him to propose again.
When the stepwell was built, the queen committed suicide by throwing herself into the well, so it also has a name called Queen Batan's stepwell. Perhaps the most beautiful stepwell in India, it is not just a well, it resembles an underground palace, and the well is filled with layers of sculptures, including almost all the major gods and goddesses of Hinduism. Nearly a thousand years have passed since then.
The stepwell has survived as it was buried with sediment. The Queen's Stairwell site was declared a World Heritage Site in 2014 as a reflection of India's 11th-century history, architecture, sculpture, science, technology and religious art. New Delhi left, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu took a tuk tuk to go.
Gurudwara Bangla Sahib. New Delhi The streets of New Delhi are wide and there are not many cars, and the old drivers will drag their cars without saying a word! New Delhi does not know if every tourist who comes to the Sahibi Shrine has a regret in their hearts that they have not been able to go to the Amritsar Golden Temple, in short, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu are like this.
I met a group of children who had come to visit at the entrance of the Guru Institute, and I had to sigh that the Indian children were really good-looking, especially this little girl who looked back and smiled, and she was so beautiful that she was foul! The Sahibi Guru Institute is the largest Sikh Guru in Delhi. The eighth Sikh Guru, Harkrishan, used to help smallpox and cholera patients with clean well water.
However, he died of an epidemic, so the water in the temple is revered as holy water by Sikhs, and many believers humbly ask for holy water. When it comes to Indian Ah San, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu will naturally make up the image of a beard wrapped in a turban, but in fact, it is just an image of an Indian who believes in Sikhism.
One of the teachings of Sikhs, who make up about 2% of India's population, is not to cut their hair for the rest of their lives, adult Sikh men generally wrap their hair in layers of cloth and wrap it around a head bag like a "big millstone", and Sikh men also wear a short knife around their waists to remind Sikhs to fight against evil at any time.
Most of the teachings of Sikhism are full of positive energy, which can be said to be in line with the mainstream social values promoted by Xueluo and Liu Jingshu today. The brave and warlike Sikhs were the main participants in the British army during the British colonial period, and many Sikhs worked for the British government.
At that time, most of the Indian police in the British Concession were Sikhs, and the civil servants of the British system (especially the police) have long been accustomed to being called Sir, and people have always been accustomed to adding a "A" in front of the single word, so people called "ASir" as "Asan", which is the origin of Indian Asan.
The outfits of these two good friends are simply inexplicable and laughingIndians love to take photos with others, especially East Asian faces are more popular, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu are asked for more than a dozen group photos every day, Vensie squatting in the corner with sunglasses and a headscarf is difficult to escape the fans' pursuit and interceptionConnaught Place is the commercial center of Delhi.
The messy shops and street stalls have a domestic 90s commercial vibe. Xueluo, who didn't want to eat Indian food, and Liu Jingshu went to KFC to make do with it, and the congestion of this KFC in Connaught Plaza was comparable to that of the domestic Spring Festival train station, and some people even bought it to eat standing up!
The same burger will be divided into vegetarian and meaty, and of course all meat will be chicken. Since it wasn't the original recipe, it wouldn't be a familiar taste, and in the end, the snow fell, and a large box of chicken was left for the children begging on the street. The main purpose of coming to Connaught Plaza is to apply for an Indian mobile phone card and go to the bank to withdraw cash.
Connaught Square is a circular market, there is a Vodafone business hall nearby, I saw netizens say that the local mobile phone card in India needs to wait one to two days to activate after purchase. But the mobile phone card purchased at this Vodafone was able to be used on the spot with the help of the staff at the business hall, which went very smoothly.
After having the Internet, the contact information of Uber was changed to a local number, so that you can take Uber in India, which is very convenient for New Delhi Xueluo and Liu Jingshu did not exchange Indian rupees in China, and there was no bank to withdraw cash at the first stop, so Xueluo and Liu Jingshu were on the domestic flight to Kolkata.
Exchanged 8,000 rupees with the dragon compatriots working in India. When you arrive in Delhi, you can use your UnionPay card to withdraw cash with HSBC, which is very convenient. But be sure to get enough, because there are not many cities with HSBC, as far as Xueluo knows, it is Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Kolkata and several big cities.
I also saw that Citibank can withdraw cash, but after Snow Falls in Udaipur, Citibank does not support UnionPay card cash withdrawal. Xueluo and Liu Jingshu took the subway from the subway station in front of the bank to the center of Delhi's old city, where the Jamamasjid is located.
Xueluo and his friends were stunned, the gap between New Delhi and Old Delhi was too big. When the Moonlight Bazaar arrived at the Jama Mosque, because Muslims were praying in the mosque, tourists were not allowed to enter, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu had to wait at the door for the next opening time, which was the time for one class.
Xueluo wondered if he had taken a plastic basket as a hat, or if the Muslim hat was such a plastic basket? The Jama Mosque itself is not an attraction, so it stands to reason that there should be no entrance fees.
But there are always people at the door who force tourists to buy tickets, whether it is the cost of shoes, cameras, clothing, in short, they will not let you in if they don't pay, and the attitude is bad and very disgusting. This is the largest mosque in India and one of the top ten halals in the world, but Xueluo personally thinks that this is also the worst place for Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to travel the whole way.
Tourists are not allowed to enter the mosque, and non-Muslims are not allowed to enter, and it is said to be the largest mosque in India, but there is not much to see. Xueluo and Liu Jingshu stayed in the mosque for less than half an hour, and a staff member came to drive away the tourists, saying that they were about to worship again and asked the tourists to leave as soon as possible, which was very disappointing!
The guards at the door rudely took off the robes that were rented to female tourists when they went out, which was very annoying. Moonlight Bazaar This is a popular street snack in India, and many Indian men like to eat it, chewing it in their mouths for a long time and spitting out a stall of "blood water", which is very disgusting.
In the streets of India, you can always see puddles of red stains at the foot of the wall posts. Xueluo didn't know what it was, and she didn't want to know, but four words to describe Indian food as "poisonous in"! Moonlight Bazaar looked carefully at the upper left corner of the photo, and there was actually a monkey standing on the wire bracket! Gutbo Tower Delhi has three World Heritage Sites.
Red Fort, Humayun's tomb and Qutub Minar, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu only went to Gutub Minar. At 73 meters tall, Gutb Pagoda is the tallest ancient pagoda in India, and it is a monument built to celebrate the victory of the Muslims of Central Asia after their successful invasion and occupation of India.
Tapering from bottom to top, the tower is a blend of Hinduism and Islam, engraved with the ancient Arabic Quran and a variety of delicate patterns. In the past, it was possible to climb to the top for a bird's-eye view of the whole city, but unfortunately tourists are now forbidden to climb the tower. It is said that Gutub Pagoda was once 100 meters tall and was unfortunately hit by a plane due to its proximity to the airport.
It has become the current 73 meters, and I don't know whether this statement is true or not. Next to the Gutub Pagoda is the Quw-WatulIslam Mosque, a mosque built of brick and stone from which more than 20 Hindu temples have been demolished, albeit in ruins.