India 2004 part I - Agra and Delhi

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June 30th 2004

Published: September 22nd 2022

We saw more than Taj Mahal in Agra In 2004, about one and a half years before we joined TravelBlog, we travelled in India for a few weeks. On that trip we learnt that it can get very hot in India in July. And that refers mainly to the weather. Of course, the food in India was also hot. But that's true regardless of what month of the year it is so no need to point that out. When we left Swe... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Cow

Cow on the street. Something that is completely normal in India

Qutb Minar

Qutb Minar is an over 72 meters high minaret and is built from sandstone bricks.

Qutb Minar complex

Qutb Minar is the highlight of the Qutb Minar complex

Alai Minar

Near Qutb Minar are the foundations of another minaret, Alai Minar. It was begun and built to a height of about 25 meters when the project was abandoned.

Iron pillar of Delhi

The Iron pillar of Delhi is a 7 meters high iron pillar constructed in the 4th century CE. The fact that it hasn't rusted in the close to 1700 years it has existed is quite remarkable.

Qutb Minar complex

Qutb Minar complex is a collection of tombs, mosques, minarets and other structures

Qutb Minar complex

Most of Qutb Minar complex was built in the 14th century.

Row of pillars

Row of pillars in the Qutb Minar complex

Qutb Minar complex

The 600 years or so that has passed since Qutb Minar complex was constructed has taken its toll.

Qutb Minar complex

Much of Qutb Minar complex is today in a ruined state.

Qutb Minar complex

Busy street in Paharganj

Paharganj is a busy part of part of Delhi. It is very busy, very noisy and there are people everywhere. We have a bit of a love and hate relationship with Paharganj.

An electrician's worst nightmare

Electric cables in Paharganj

23rd September 2022

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Hot food, hot weather
India was hot when we were there. Taj is amazing.... more so than the photos.

24th September 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I am not proud of my photos
My photos from the days when I took transparencies have a very low quality. I have recently bought better equipment to use when I digitize them. I hope that my pics will retain more colours in the transfer from analogue to digital from now on. /Ake

23rd September 2022

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Lovely
Amazing architecture

24th September 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Indeed amazing
The Qutb Minar complex really is quite spectacular. If I remember it right, when I wandered around there were not many people there. I think it is a site that many people don't know about. /Ake

24th September 2022

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

An electrician's worst nightmare
I was going 'ooh' 'ahh' seeing your magnificent collection of the architectural icons of the Mughal Empires when I saw this beauty that stopped me in my tracks. Reminded me of Zanzibar and Vietnam. Yours would make a great thread lead-in as the World's worst electrical tangles are truly fascinating.

26th September 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Any other tradesmen's horrors?
"Electrician's worst nightmare" I have seen here and there. But have I seen any other trademen's horror jobs? I once saw markings to lead the way for blind people that led right into a wall in a dead end. I think I once saw a lamp post in the middle of a bicycle lane. I guess I must have seen more but none are as rememberable as the nests of cables. /Ake

2nd October 2022

alex waring
Alexander Waring

India
Yes, I completely understand the love-hate point. I feel the same about India as a whole - I've found that around three weeks there is my limit. An amazing country, and I initially love the mayhem and exotic atmosphere, but the noise, dirt and crowds eventually take their toll and I'm ready to leave. I saw similar places in Delhi and Agra, and the unrusted 1700-year-old iron pillar is really quite remarkable.

2nd October 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Three weeks at most
Very true. The first week I just love it all. But already at two weeks it starts to feel like too much and I need to get away and get some relief from it all. But it is a lovely country and I want to go back again. I have so much that I still want to see there. /Ake

8th October 2022

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

2004 vs 2015
We were in Delhi in 2015 and it's pretty amazing that the city has changed so much but also not changed at all - that shot of Paharganj looks identical to one of my photos. We stayed overnight in Agra too - it enabled us to see a bit more than when on a day trip. You have much fewer people in your Taj Mahal shots - we were there in January and it was cold and rainy, but the Taj was still packed. The crowds eventually got to me too, but it is mind blowing how there is order within what I saw as pure chaos :)

15th October 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Mumbai’s Lunchbox Supply Chain
"Order in chaos" made me think of something that is often referred to as Mumbai’s Lunchbox Supply Chain. In one day they transport 200,000 lunchboxes from homes to workplaces and back, that is 400,000 deliveries, and fails only like 1 in a million. Note that many of the workers in this nightmarish logistics system can't read or write. /Ake

16th October 2022

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

LOL so typical inn Asia & SE Asia & Mexico & S America.

16th October 2022

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

I went to India twice while I was wintering in Penang, once to Rajastan & once to south India. Loved it. Only one episode of Delhi belly ;o(

16th October 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Only one...?
You must have a cast iron stomach./Ake

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