Another day in Delhi

After almost two weeks of being professional tourists, we've done our first day of real sightseeing. We managed to run the gauntlet to Old Delhi to visit the Red Fort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fort).



Its a massive old Mughal fortress, read the wiki bit if you want to know more as I'll only get something wrong! It was pretty amazing to see this huge fort stuck pretty much in the middle of the chaos of Old Delhi.

The entrance to the fort used to be lined with shops for the finest craftsmen in India, but these days its been given to the tourist tat sellers...



From there on in its pretty grand inside, lots to look at but by this point is was so hot that I had to rest in the shade every 2 minutes. Alex was loving it though, especially when one of the "official" tourist guides came over and started asking me about English history. Not what you want when you are about to pass out from the heat!

We've not quite mastered the long arm photos yet, and we didn't really want to hand the camera over to anyone, but here is a picture of us both to prove we are actually here together :) (our paranoia was made worse with constant signs about pickpockets etc inside the fort!)



We just about made it back in one piece, it was another fairly hairy autorickshaw journey back to our hotel afterwards.



Ok so that picture was from last night, but it sums the crazy rickshaws up pretty well. We managed to visit some equally crazy bars in Conaught Place last night as well, the weirdest was a rodeo themed place where you sit on saddles at the bar :



And here is Alex on the main bazaar near where we are staying :



We've uploaded a few more pictures from Goa as well, I think you can click on the images and it should take you to the full album for all our photos so far.

Thats about it for now, the heat of the day is starting to fade so its time to go and find somewhere to eat!