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Published: February 11th 2016
Left Agra early and headed back to Delhi, we have done a huge big circle on this trip, the road from Agra to Delhi is pretty perfect, nearly all freeway so a good run back into Delhi, about a 3 hr drive but stopped midway for a coffee break. Looking forward to getting back to the Crowne Plaza, a very comfy hotel. After lunch we headed in the central Delhi area to the Chandni Chowk Market area to the spice market, before arriving at the spice market we were asked did anyone have asthma or any sort of lung problems!! The fumes of all the varieties of chilli etc is unbelievable, even some of us who are used to chilli, had a few coughing fits! There are just hundreds of huge sacks of chilli and all other spices you can imagine, this is the wholesale market so a lot of it is whole or seeds, very interesting! The spice market in Istanbul I have to say is more impressive but different. Then moved on to a place where we could buy spices that were ground and had cryovac so we could bring them back in to Australia. I bought about $60
OLD DELHI
Ready, set, go!worth of curry and spices - it was overwhelming the different types! There were about 12 of us on the tour to the markets and again it was so hard keeping everyone together as it is total chaos in this market with thousands of people going about their daily shopping, so John and I broke away from the tour and did our own thing and had a good look around the market and then hailed a motor rickshaw, tuk tuk, back to the hotel an hour or so later. Also one of the group slipped and fell and had a huge skin tear on her arm so that had to be attended to??!! Really we should have booked a couple of extra days to do the Chandni Chowk Market as there were streets of silver, streets of stationary, streets of sarees, streets of shoes etc etc Next time!!! Tuk Tuk back to hotel and dinner at Great Plates which we had eaten at before, the food is delicious and we were too tired to look for something else plus have to be up early like 4.45a.m. for 5.30a.m. pick up to airport to fly down to Singapore. What a great
CHANDI CHOWK
Streets and streets of stalls trip we have had and packed a huge amount in and did over 1400 kilometres, will definitely get back one day and do the southern part of India.
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