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Explore Delhi City Tour by Car

The capital of India is a blend of ancient and modern, as it has both old Delhi and New Delhi.

When it comes a Delhi city tour it can be arranged by any travel agent by car with a professional guide in any language a traveller chooses. There are many main and historical architecture built by Mughal and khiljis in 13th century. There are some monuments which are protected by UNESCO the world heritage sites, and on the other hand there are few places a traveller always wants to visit. Being the capital city of India, it’s the center of the whole country, if any traveller wants to explore Delhi city tour it can be fulfilled by metro, by car, by bus tours, private guided tour also. There are many places in old & New Delhi city tour, it holds the immense significance for the tourists, it holds the people of all languages from India and from other countries. There are many good, posh markets to buy souvenirs like chandani chowk, Sarojini nagar, palika bazaar and Karol Bagh. When exploring the Delhi city tour one can witness the beautiful temples like Swaminarayan Akshardham temple and chattarpur temple. There are numerous historical monuments like Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Humayun tomb and Purana qila, rashtrapati bhawan, India gate and Rajghat. Some are famous historical buildings and some are political, patriotic ensemble. If a tourist is foodie than it’s the best place to stay and to have the different variety of foods in every corner of old & New Delhi, from kebabs, rolls, biryani to choose bhature, parathe and sweets.

PLACES TO VISIT:

Red Fort: It’s a historic fort in India that served the main residence of Mughals, it was commissioned by emperor Shahjahan in 1638, earlier Agra was the capital of India. It was designed by the same designer who designed the Taj Mahal, Ustaad Ahmad Lahori, originally, it’s in red sandstone and white marble. The fort was designated by the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007.

Humayun Tomb: It’s the first garden tomb on the Indian subcontinent, it was also the first structure made by Mughal in red sandstone, and it also comes under the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. It was built by his wife with the help of Persian architects. Besides the main tomb, there are several smaller monuments in the way to the tomb.

India Gate: It’s a memorial building in commemoration of more than 70000 soldiers of British Indian army, who was killed during the World War 1.

When India was in rule of East India company. The height of this gate is 42 meters high, and the architect was, Sir Edwin Lutyens, who also designed the Rashtrapati Bhawan of India. There is Amar jawan jyoti or the flame, which is for immortal soldiers who died during the Bangladesh war in 1971. Consisting of black marble, plinth, rifle, capped by war helmet, with the permanent light from natural gas.

Lotus Temple: It’s a famous temple of baha’i, it’s a notable design, it’s with the flowerlike shape, it’s open for every tourist, and it has been a prominent attraction of Delhi city tour. There is a hall capacity of sitting more than 2500 people and having 9 doors, in 2001 CNN awarded this for the most travellers visited this building.

Connaught Place: It is also known as Rajiv chowk, it was designed by Robert tor Russel, it’s the largest commercial center for business, Rajiv chowk, cannaugut place or  CP, is the major shopping, food, night-life and a tourist destination. It comes in top 10 most expensive office location in INDIA.

Chandni Chowk: It was built in 17th century by emperor Shahjahan, at that time it was India’s first supermarket or the wholesale market. Her daughter jahnara begum designed this market the shops were made in half moon shaped pattern now it’s almost lost, and at that time it was famous for silver merchants as silver is referred as Chandi in Hindi. There was a pool also which is replaced from the tower which is now a ghantaghar or clock tower. As of now if the tourist like to visit Chandni Chowk one should take a Rikshaw ride, so one can enjoy the whole market of like parathe gali, silver jewellery, traditional perfume market, Asia’s largest wholesale market of spices, bridal makeups, bridal clothings, camera market and last but not the least variety of spicy and mouth-watering street foods, which no one can stop himself to eat.

Jama Masjid: It’s the great mosque to visit as it’s the old and the biggest mosque of INDIA. More than 30000 devotes Can pray together in this mosque. Mughal emperor Shahjahan commissioned this mosque, as it’s the last construction building under Shahjahan, after its completion it becomes the shahi mosque or the royal mosque of the emperors until the end of the Mughal era.

Best time to visit Delhi:

The month from October to March remains the best time for the tourist, other than that the monsoon months are august to September are also good for travellers for roaming in and around old & New Delhi.

Foods one should try as a travellers:

If you are in Delhi, one must explore the available street foods and yes the best restaurants are there in the town. Where you can enjoy relishing dishes at the best prices, variety of foods are there like chole bahture , papri chaat , jalebi , daal Bukhara, chicken tikka rolls, chicken Changezi, veggie cutlets, bhale papdi, peeli daal and if some is interested in Bukhara (non veg)  than one must visit ITC Maurya for Peshawari.

There are many other famous places in Delhi for food: Nizamuddin, south campus, Connaught Place, New Friends Colony, khan market, old Delhi, Dilli Haat, Pandara road and Jama Masjid.

Delhi city tour can be start by 9 am and finishes off by 2 pm if a traveller is taking a bus tour or a group tour, but if a traveller likes to do a private guided tour with private car it can be on the mood of traveller where ever and whenever he wanted to go back to hotel. So one should travel at a minute distance to explore the most exciting spots in and around Delhi. As one day is enough for a Delhi city tour by car or by bus, later mostly travellers visit Taj Mahal day tour from Delhi on the next day.