Photos from Old Delhi and a cow in Vasant Vihar

Red Fort - Marble art with a guard:

Red Fort - Area where the ruler met common people (I almost missed the stairs):

Men without safety goggles working on marble on the street close to Red Fort:

At least three streets in Chawri Bazar were full of metal sellers. Everything you could think of. Huge valves. Steel in different shapes and sizes. How can someone move their shopping basket out from here?

Food items and spices here and there on the streets:

Metro ride from Chandni Chown (closest to Red Fort) to AIIMS (closest to Shanti Niketan) at 5 pm on Saturday. Not too bad of a crowd.

Cow encounter in Vasant Vihar during my Sunday walk. First one for me. Took three weeks of driving and walking around in Delhi to find the first one.

BTW: I love my cell phone's camera capabilities. Great photos (especially when you think it is a phone), automatic uploads, geotagging, etc.

Delhi, New Delhi, NTC - what's the difference

From a distance it was kind of hard to figure out the difference between Delhi and New Delhi. Well, not much easier from New Delhi in Delhi in NCT (National Capital Territory of Delhi). Still have to figure out if NCT is about the same as the National Capital Region that includes also Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. NCT is almost like a state, but officially a union territory. New Delhi is the capital of India, that is a starter. Population of NTC is 20+ million, Delhi 12 million and New Delhi around 200 000. Well, looks like some online sources mix the names, too. http://www.mapsofindia.com/delhi/population-of-new-delhi.html tells the population to be 11.7 million in New Delhi and later on shows New Delhi as part of Delhi to have 172 000 people. To learn more, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi

I tested the metro system in the weekend. It is clean, not overcrowded in the weekend, inexpensive, and fast compared to other means of transportation. It took 40 minutes to ride metro from Old Delhi to A.I.I.M.S station closest to Shanti Niketan and 4 kilometers auto rickshaw ride comparered to minimum of 50 minutes taxi drive. Would love it much more, if the nearest station was closer to my current home/office. I think I saw more people in Old Delhi streets in an hour than I have seen in the streets of the city of Pori in Finland (population 80 000) for couple of years.