Few last places before wrapping up at New Delhi
Rashtrapati Bhavan is home of our President and the Parliament is just beside it, both being high secured area, where entry is prohibited, so we had to see it from distance, but Mom was still happy to not walk a lot. The camera certainly did the magic taking some nice captures. There is a museum which can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, but the last time slot is 3:30pm and entry is not permitted after 04:00pm. In total there are five pre booked time slots, where each slot can have maximum 250 visitors. Online booking as well as spot booking is available, you can find all details at this site.
The mega garden named Amrit Udyan, spread over 15 acres of land is also open to public between February to March and all details available here.
There is a virtual tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan as well, if you want to see it : https://virtualtour.rashtrapatibhavan.gov.in/
Seeing all these needs planning and time and we did not have plans for them. On our way back from India Gate, we just wanted to have a glimpse of these as it was already evening, and we did not have plans to spend any more time in New Delhi in this trip. May be next time when kids will go, I need to plan these carefully. And by the way the current president Droupadi Murmu is from my place and her life story is pretty inspiring, if you want to explore. When everything ends, hope still remains - her life is probably the best testimony of this statement.
The new parliament, this road probably connects to India Gate directly and I think, people having pass to enter the road may visit that way, but I am not sure though.
The security did not even allow to take photos on the road, so we had to be happy with this.
And finally saying goodbye to New Delhi , going straight to the hotel Sarovar Portico. The traffic was crazy in the evening and Mom wanted to eat something, so the driver managed to find a place where we could eat Dosa.
But then these guys were serving something else so we had to walk another south indian hotel, three doors apart.
Not a bad deal in Connaught Place, the posh area of Capital.
The room in hotel Sarovar Portico did not meet my expectation, as it appeared to be pretty small. I booked the Sarovar chain of hotels in the entire trip, where ever available, so I complained about it to my tour operator asking for a better room in next place. Mom was very tired, and almost sleeping but I had to do the oil massage therapy on her legs , to be ready for next day. I don't know, if I will be even able to walk so much at her age, but the massage therapy every day in the entire trip definitely helped a lot.
It was a surprise to see raining in the morning, but we had to be ready to leave for Vrindavan.
As usual pretty of options on breakfast and the ambience was good and so was the food. It was only the rooms that was bit disappointing, but may be that's ok for a commercial place like New Delhi ?
And ready to go to Vrindavan, more to come....
Shot with SONY α6400 with 18-135 mm Zoom Lens
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