Chapter 260: If It Were Not Her
It was founded in 1644 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and has a history of more than 300 years. The pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Xueluo felt that it was not as good as the Jama Mosque in Agra Fatahpur Sikri. How to get there: Take the yellow line of the subway, get off at the station, walk about 1 km or take a tuk-tuk to get there.
The noon prayer time is closed to visitors. Admission: Free. Taking a picture of 300 is equivalent to 30 yuan, and some people forcibly collect it, and they have to collect it if they don't take the camera, and they have to take it back when they go out, which is really a random charge. Ascend Minaret 100. From the Red Fort through the noisy and dirty little markets in the streets of Old Delhi.
Walk to the east gate of the mosque. Walk up the high steps in front of you and you will find the main entrance to the mosque. There are entrances on the north and south sides of the mosque. The east gate of the mosque is very large, and the whole is made of red sandstone, so the appearance is brick-red. There is a doorway in the middle, and there are horizontal corridors and four minarets at the top, and the architectural style is very close to the Red Fort, and you can see that it is a building of the same period.
It is noticeably different from the old fort, which was built a hundred years earlier. When a woman enters the mosque, she must be wrapped in the form of the woman in front of her, without showing her hair, arms or legs. Men cannot wear shorts that are shorter than the knee. Take off your shoes when you enter.
Struggle to climb the high steps into the east gate of the mosque, and look up at the semicircular dome, covered with red relief patterns, like many petals spliced together. The petals still seemed to be shaking in the wind, like the wings of a butterfly. The mosque is nominally free, but there is a man at the entrance, as long as it is a tourist.
Regardless of whether you take pictures or not, you will be charged a photography fee of 300, and if you don't give it, you won't be allowed in. 300, which is more than the charge of the Red Fort, which is a bit of a bully for tourists. Liu Jingshu said that she would not go in at that time, and helped Xueluo and Liu Jingshu look at her shoes at the door. It is best for tourists to bring their own plastic bags and carry their shoes inside.
If you put it at the door, give 10 for each pair of shoes to look at the shoes. Stepping into the doorway, you will be greeted by a large square courtyard with four square red sandstone bricks, which is said to be able to accommodate 25,000 people for religious activities at the same time. In the center of the courtyard there is a rectangular pool for worshippers to wash their hands and feet before worshipping.
The main building is quite beautiful, 80 meters long and 27 meters wide, with 3 white circular marble domes on top of it, and a 41-meter-high minaret on each side, which can be seen for 100 meters. Walking barefoot in it, the ground is not clean, and the soles of the feet are dirty. Dress like this to be eligible to enter the mosque square.
If you want to enter the main hall, you have to cover your hair, face, and neck. The snow falls, you dress like this, does your mother know? The train to Amritsar at eight o'clock in the evening, and in the afternoon you have to go back to Connaught Square to buy a phone card, and there is still waiting outside, and this is what it looks like inside, and you go out after a few quick glances.
When I left the gate of the mosque, the man who blocked the door and forcibly sold the photo ticket actually wanted to return the 300 receipt, I don't know whether he wanted to sell it again or hide with the temple how much money he had collected, in short, even if he was not a liar, he was a false believer who tried to blaspheme the doctrine for profit, because there was no way to take it.
Delhi Connaught Plaza Office mobile phone card out of Jama Mosque 150 a tuk-tuk came to Connaught Plaza again, this time for the mobile phone card. In today's world, how can you live without the Internet? If you don't have a mobile phone card, you can't make calls or surf the Internet, and if you mix in the chaotic world of India, your intelligence will be short, so you have to do it as soon as possible.
There are very regular telephone operator franchise stores in Connaught Place, which should be more reliable. After applying for a phone card at Connaught Plaza Vodafone in Connaught Plaza, New Delhi, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu chose a regular Vodafone store with a formal logo. Vodafone is an international mobile phone operator.
It is now one of the largest mobile communication network companies in the world, and it is said that the head office is in the United Kingdom and has a branch in India, and the reputation is relatively good. Under the introduction of the salesperson, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu chose a card with 3 networks and 5 traffic, priced at 855 yuan, equivalent to 85 yuan, 10 traffic, and 1225.
It is said that in India, different shops offer different prices for the same variety, so I don't know if this price is really the official price. To apply for a calling card, you need a photo and a copy of your passport, as well as fill out a form with your address in India. Where is it in India?
Xueluo and Liu Jingshu travel around India every day, how can they have a fixed address? Xueluo is also drunk. Give me the address of the first hotel. In fact, this address is very important, especially remembered, because after a few hours, the operator's service hotline will have to confirm this address again by phone before opening, otherwise, your phone card and the money charged in it will evaporate.
After a lot of twists and turns, I finally got two cards for Snow Fall and Snow Fall. Liu Jingshu's mobile phone is a global pass that has been opened for global roaming, and she disdains this foreign calling card that does not save much money; The salesperson who applied for the card for Xueluo and Liu Jingshu said that two hours after buying the card, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu would take the initiative to call the operator's phone number 117 to activate the card.
It will take a few more hours after activation to become officially activated. What kind of efficiency is this? There are so many troubles to get a calling card. Two hours later, Xueluo called 117 to activate the card during his trip to the scenic spot, and reported his mobile phone number, name, passport number, and address as required.
That is, it sounds very difficult, not only is it difficult for the snow to fall, but later I found a European and American tourist at the train station, and it was also difficult to understand. There was a problem with communication, for the sake of prudence, I gave up part of the afternoon tour time and made a special trip back to the store that sold cards in Connaught Plaza, and asked the salesperson to help activate it.
A young and beautiful Indian saleswoman picked up the phone and dialed the company's phone card to open the hotline 117, Xueluo thought that her family was easy to talk to, plus it was a girl who called, and it was a boy who answered the phone, so it would be done soon. Who knows, the girl unhurriedly started the phone porridge with the other party, and watched the time pass minute by minute.
Xueluo and Liu Jingshu still have attractions to go, so they went up and urged, and the girl told the truth: You must say good things and beg the other party "for a while". Wow, how is this like a merchant serving customers, buying your goods, and asking for you, and don't want the money to be delivered to the door?
The salesman said that the company stipulates that the personal information must be reported in person to activate the telephone, and the salesperson cannot speak on his behalf. The saleswoman chatted with the hotline boy for a while, and then gave the phone to Xueluo.
Let Xueluo report a string of wordy information such as name/nationality/passport number/mobile phone number/address again, and finally heard what the other party said, the waitress said that it would be automatically opened after a few hours, so that Xueluo and Liu Jingshu hugged their mobile phones and went back to wait, the sign of opening was the operator's text message, and the letters displayed on the mobile phone screen.
Now rest assured that the bird, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu walked out of the mobile phone store and continued the following trip. At about 6:40 p.m., with a beep, the screen showed the letters from God, and after paying the money to get the mobile phone card five and a half hours later, the mobile phone card was finally officially opened and could access the Internet. Hurriedly asked the snow next to him: "Has your card been opened?"
Snowfall indicates that her phone card is not moving. At this moment, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu no longer have time to return to Connaught Plaza to find the shop theory, so they can only wait until they reach the next stop, Amritsar, to see if it can be opened. After getting a mobile phone card at the Vodafone store on King's Avenue in New Delhi in the morning, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu first went to the nearby area to find food.
I found a fast food restaurant and ordered a set of Chinese fried rice + 4 vegetarian balls, 175 yuan for 175 yuan. When you see this symbol, divide the previous number directly by ten to get the price of RMB. The fried rice is very spicy, the meatball soup is sour, where is this Chinese-style fried rice, it is an Indian meal sold privately with a "Chinese-style" fake hat.
The afternoon time is tight, and before leaving New Delhi in the evening, I plan to go to see the Hindu Gate Snow Fall last night, and I accompanied her to see it again, the King's Road, the Presidential Palace, and Humayun's Tomb. In order to hurry up, I found a small van waiting for passengers near Connaught Square, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu 4 people chartered a car for 250 yuan each to send to the train station in the afternoon until the evening.
If it weren't for the delay of returning to Connaught Square to open a mobile phone card later, there should be no problem with the planned attractions in the afternoon, and the actual result is that there is no time to go to Humayun's Tomb, but Xueluo and Liu Jingshu will return to New Delhi, and there will be time to arrange it at that time. This time, I was fortunate to meet a good driver, a very kind Indian uncle, and the service was very patient.
With Xueluo and Liu Jingshu, he introduced the attractions while turning. The quality of the van driver is higher than that of the tuk-tuk and taxi driver. Of course, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu's expenses are also there.
However, it's really worth it, check out the snow fall and Liu Jingshu's afternoon itinerary: Connaught Square→ King's Road→ Presidential Palace→ India Gate→ Connaught Square→ Luggage Pick-up → Nizamuddin Railway Station. This circle is not small. Xueluo and Liu Jingshu live in the north, the railway station is in the south, the two places are more than ten kilometers apart, plus the round-trip attractions, really ran a lot of way.
The first stop of the afternoon tour of the King's Avenue in New Delhi is the Raj Avenue, also known as the "King's Road", which extends westward from the India Gate, similar to the Chang'an Avenue in Chang'an City, the symbol of the national road. From the Presidential Palace in the west to the India Gate in the east, it is about 25 kilometers long, wide and straight.
Important buildings along the road on both sides are: the office building of the Government of India - the North and South Secretariat Building, the Parliament Building, the Indira Gandhi National Arts Centre, the National Museum, the Air Force Building, etc. Important events such as India's national military parade and National Day parade are also held on this avenue. You can feel it from this photo.
There is a big difference in the architectural characteristics of India's big cities and the big cities of the Dragon Kingdom, that is, although they are both large countries with a large population in the world, the population density of the cities is very large, and the founding time is about the same, but the modern high-rise buildings of the Dragon City are much more than those of India. This may be a reflection of the difference in economic power.
The van driver's uncle took Xueluo and Liu Jingshu to see all the way, stopping from time to time to introduce attractions to Xueluo and Liu Jingshu. Good guy one. The Indian Parliament Building, Kings Avenue, New Delhi, is the Parliament of India on the north side of the western section of Kings Avenue, a white circular building located on the north side of the western section of Kings Road.
It looks a bit like a stadium. The exterior is supported by a dense circle of white marble columns, which brings a sense of beauty and strength to the whole building, and looks very solemn. Unfortunately, there has been a terrorist attack here, where six terrorists armed with guns and a white ambassador car broke into the gate and engaged in a shootout with the guards.
Many people were killed and injured, and the vice president of India was also in the building at the time, but survived. The building is not accessible to outsiders due to terrorist attacks, but there is a small view of the fountain outside the courtyard wall on the east side, which allows visitors to enjoy the whole circular building from here. King's Avenue is located on the south side of the west section of King's Road, the South Secretariat Building, a government office building.
There is a high dome in the center of the roof, and there are many small hat pavilions around it. The overall color is orange-red, and the building materials should also be taken from red sandstone. It is like a combination of 19th-century British colonial architecture and Islamic architecture at the end of the Mughal Empire. The King's Road North Secretariat Building is located on the north side of the King's Road West section of the Government Office Building, the North Secretariat Building.
Across the King's Avenue from the South Secretariat Building, it looks exactly the same, like twin brothers. The Presidential Palace of India, New Delhi, was built in 1929 as the Victoria Palace, and after India's independence, it was changed to the Presidential Palace. One of the landmarks of New Delhi. Covering an area of about 20,000 square meters, the Presidential Palace contains numerous palace chambers, painted columns, pavilions and fountains, as well as a promenade.
The main building is a blend of Mughal and European architectural styles, and is an imposing palace-like structure with a circular dome rising above it. At the back of the main building, there is a large Mughal garden courtyard with a famous water lily fountain inside. The gardens of the Presidential Palace are open to the public free of charge for a very short period of time each year in the spring.
You can't usually go in and visit. Address: Arrival method: rail transit yellow line or purple line, station. The presidential palace van carried Xueluo and Liu Jingshu from the north and south secretariat buildings along the King's Road to the west for a short distance, and came here to drop Xueluo and Liu Jingshu, in front of the Indian presidential palace.
Some tourists can walk past the fence gate and the mountain cannon in front of them to take pictures, but Xueluo and Liu Jingshu can't do it now, so they can only walk up to the two gun-wielding guards and finish the matter with a telephoto aim. The presidential palace in New Delhi looks through a fancy fence gate, and the main building looks a bit like the U.S. Capitol in the middle, with a dome in the middle.
There are also many tall columns on the ground floor. In front of the main building is a memorial column that appears to be topped by a cross, which is not. The wide courtyard in front of the building was empty and quiet, and there was no one in sight, as if it was shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere.