Abby: Delhi

I've been promising this for a while so here it is:

New Delhi is the capital of India and is north of Bangalore. To me it looked much greener than Bangalore even though it is a bigger city. Here's a brief description of each day.
Night 1: We arrived at the hotel at night so we didn't really do much then.
Day 1: We went and had breakfast at the hotel and I got into something with nuts and threw up after we got back. Then some friends of ours came and took us to a beautiful park within walking distance of our hotel and their house. I wasn't feeling too great still at the park and I threw up there too.

Andrew's on the bridge... This is a "madrasa" or Muslim seminary. It was in the park, and was part of a medieval village from the 13th century. That's OLD! 

The park was called Deer Park because there are a lot of deer. We didn't see any, but we did see a peacock (the national bird of India) and lots of these squirrels that look like chipmunks. They squeak loudly.

Day 2: We went to this really amazing place called Qutub Minar. It has a bunch of buildings and monuments and stuff like that.
Night 2: We ate dinner at the house of some friends from Dallas who live in Delhi now. 

This is at Qtub Minar. It has the tallest stone tower in India (behind us), which was built around 1200 AD. Also OLD! I learned that "minar" is the word for tower, where we get the word "minarette".

Here is some of the detail on the tower. It was tall and really pretty.

Andrew and I got to climb on and around the ruins of Qtub Minar

Me with two of my new friends in Delhi

This iron pillar is 1600 years old!! It may also be where the name Delhi got started.

These are our friends that we knew in Dallas who are now in Delhi.

Day 3: This was technically the last day. We went to this place called Dilli Haat. Dilli Haat was a tourist market place. It has lots of handcrafts from every state in India. One thing that was fun was that you can try to bargain down the prices of stuff. This was the last time we saw our friends before we left.
Morning 4: We left the hotel at 7:30 so we just got ready and went to the airport.

At our hotel, we ate breakfast on the top floor each day. Across from us were always these parrots squawking and flying around. They are blue and green and yellow, with red beaks and a pink ring around their necks.