Second day in New Delhi

Well I  am not sure where to start. At the very beginning you say. A sound jet lagged sleep prepared us well for the day as did the little bananas and toast for breakfast. I am still a little unsure of quality of food but the evening meal of curries has had no ill effects so that is good. After much discussion we decided to take a tuktuk to the metro. After realizing the ticket machine only took 5 and 10 rupee notes we then needed to find coins for the ticket man. Battle over we discovered metros are the same world over except this one has a violet line. We managed the line change smoothly and ended up at connaught square. Safety in numbers as Judy from Vancouver joined us we followed a man to the hop on hop off bus office through a rather dubious door and a more dubious flight of stairs. No seats on the bus we were told would we like to spend 30000 rupees on a private taxi. A tad expensive so he gave in quickly and we settled on half the price. A good idea as we soon learnt negotiating our way around to see the sights would have been time consuming and I think rather stressful. Rupin our taxi driver negotiated the cars, bicycles, buses, dogs and pedestrians with local expertise. Max speed is 60 but you are lucky to get over 40 and usually it is snails pace. We saw dogs, cows, goats, pigs,  sleeping or wandering around as well as plenty of birds including eagles.  Colourful stalls lined the streets  (food, flowers,toys, carpets,  clothes) and at each intersection people attempted to sell us amything from selfie sticks to peanuts.  The streets were also lined with washing  (hotels contract it out but surprisingly the towels remain off white although a bit hard).  On many of the median barriers and trees cow pats  about 30 cm in diameter had been assembled to dry for fertiliser. We managed to fit in the red fort, Qutb monument with drive bys for the bahai temple lotus flower and Indian gate. Here's some photos to  wet the appetite. One thing is that the colors people wear are amazing.  I  can see that I won't be trying to avoid getting photos with people but they will be a feature. We are off to our tour meeting shortly then being taken out for tea with the ceo from the tour company presumably he is of the  Indian branch.