Day 2 Nehru Park 11/20/10

The kids are jet legged and up way too early in the morning. So at 6:30am, sunrise, we took them for a walk to Nehru Park, just a couple blocks from the embassy compound. It was cool out, almost cold. Officially, Julia hates to walk anywhere.


Nehru Park is spacious, almost 80 acres. Running paths, paved and dirt, course throu
ghout the park. They users try to keep it clean. Garbage cans are around the park, but they are mostly over-flowing. There's a small, stagnant looking pool that looked to be part of a waterfall. Walkers and joggers are enjoying the park, along with badminton and soccer players. There are lots of birds - bird food is scattered throughout the park. An occasional Kite will swoop down to disrupt them, or sometimes get a small bird to eat.
Large hawks, I think they are Kites, are everywhere in the city. They are usually in packs and circling overhead like buzzards.

In this part of town there are no traffic lights. Just a round-a-bouts every block or so. So when walking anywhere you have to watch out on the right, that's where the traffic is coming from. When it gets really busy, you have to cross the road to an island and wait for the road to clear to cross the other side. Typically, the crosswalks are placed where its hard to see the on-coming traffic. And sometimes the crosswalk will lead to a large barrier...... for the most part, the traffic circles have greenery or a garden in it.