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Last Day in Delhi

 On our last day in Delhi, we made four interesting stops.   Clicking on the pictures will make them larger and clicking the links will give more info about each site.

The first was to the National Arts and Crafts Museum.  This museum has some great highlights of the historical development of crafts throughout India.  Of particular interest were the tapestries, musical instruments, and a replica crafts village.  Throughout the museum were craftspeople making (and selling) their local crafts.  








From the museum, we went to the Waste to Wonder Park.  This was a park with miniature models of the seven wonders of the world as well as a dinosaur activity area for children.  All of the models were made out of recycled materials.  Interesting to note that while the park was advocating recycling, a new raised multi-lane highway was being built right beside the park.  The final picture is of the Delhi landfill.  As we drove past this, at first we thought it was a large hill, but when we got closer and saw the garbage trucks lined up to go in, we realized that this was where Delhi's garbage ended up.  




A short tuktuk ride away was the Lotus Temple.  This is a Baha'i house of worship set in acres of manicured grounds.  Very plain in side, it was good to spend some time in the very sparse sanctuary contemplating all of the rich sights and sounds that we had been experiencing in Delhi.  



The final stop of the day was Tughlaqabad Fort.  This was an amazing fort whose walls enclosed six square kilometres.  Conde Nast Traveller has an interesting article about this fort.  Built in the 1320s to guard the Sultanate of Delhi against Mogul attacks the rulers of the day was so passionate about building it that he commanded every labourer in the area to work on it.  Unfortunately, the ruler died and it was never occupied. 







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