This pulsating metropolis has a bigger population than Australia. But woven into its rich fabric are moments of pure beauty: an elderly man threading temple marigolds; Sufi devotional songs; a boy flying a kite from a rooftop.
So don’t be put off. Delhi is a city that has been repeatedly ravaged and reborn, with vestiges of lost empires in almost every neighbourhood. There's so much to experience here, it's like a country in itself.
TOP 15 EXPERIENCES / A MUST
1. AKSHARDHAM TEMPLE
2. INDIA GATE
3. RED FORT
4. LODI GARDENS
5. QUTUB MINAR
6. JANTAR MANTAR
7. DILLI HAAT
8. LOTUS TEMPLE
9. ISKON TEMPLE
10. AGRASEN KI BAULI
11. BANGLA SAHIB GURUDWARA
12. PURANA QILA
13. CONNAUGHT PLACE
14. RAJ GHAT
15. NATIONAL RAIL MUSEUM
Delhi is a city where time travel is feasible. Step aboard your time machine (the sleek and efficient metro) and you can go from Old Delhi, where labourers haul sacks of spices and jewellers weigh gold on dusty scales, to modern New Delhi, with its colonial-era parliament buildings and penchant for high tea. Then on to the future: Gurgaon, a satellite city of skyscraping offices and glitzy malls.
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