Old Delhi is simply mind-boggling. This slideshow shares a few images from Old Delhi in a nice full-screen format that I hope you will find immersive and engaging. (1) Once you launch the slideshow press F11 on your keyboard to enter full-screen mode. (2) Use the arrow keys on your keyboard or the arrows at the edges of the screen to load the next image. Launch slideshow.
In trying to think of the most sterile, orderly, predictable cities I’ve ever been to, Wilmington, Delaware (the financial district at least) and Windhoek, Namibia are at the top of the list. You can hear a pin drop and eat off the sidewalk. Old Delhi is the polar opposite. It’s so raw and unfiltered. Anything can happen at any moment. There are seething masses of people everywhere. Elephants share the major roads with trucks and bicycles and hunchbacked old men pushing ox carts by hand.
Despite the chaos and the traffic and noise and smog, there’s something totally endearing about it. People in Old Delhi are warm and friendly. You can walk up to anyone and start a conversation, and they’ll likely share whatever they have with you. Their lives are not spent complaining about lacking this or that, and there is a can-do spirit that pervades everything. It’s so full of life!
