Cold (5°c) and misty start this morning. Headed straight away to Old Delhi to the Jama Mosque. The biggest mosque in India, built in 1650. In Delhi, approximately 80% of 17 million inhabitants are Hindu, 14% Muslims and 6% Sikhs, Christians, Jains and others. When we arrived, prayer mats were being set out ready for Friday prayers - about five thousand expected shortly after us. Rented three bicycle powered rickshaws (took the chauffeur driven option) which took us round Chandni Chowk market - a vast expanse of very narrow intersecting streets jammed full of people wheeling, pulling, carting, carrying stuff. Shopkeepers somehow keeping area clean - squatting down sweeping the floor. The Chandni Chowk market is the main wholesale spice market for Northern India - sacks and sacks of chillies, ginger, coriander, cumin, tamarand, tumeric, pepper
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