And you really have to watch out were you walk. As the previous pictures have shown, there's not a lot of walking space in Old Delhi. Obstacles are everywhere. Dogs and dog crap; chai and food wallahs have their open fires between the road and the shops. Despite all of this filth
and auto exhaust, I was surprised that Old Delhi didn't smell all that disgusting. And for the most part, Old Delhi didn't have a smell to it, not even spicy - except for the spice market. However, Wayne pointed out that we were here at a good time of the year..... add another 40 degrees in the temperature and then lets see what it smells like.Yet, we did sniff a bit of body waste occasionally. The sanitation in Old Delhi is really bad. If you gotta go, you GOTTA GO. So there's several "closets" around that are basically.... closets. A place where a guy can just pull it out and pee. And if there's no closet available, as in New Delhi, taxi and bus drivers would just find a wall to go on. So walking along the roads near the Parliament you would smell.. and see....spots along the wall that were "frequented" by people needing to do their stuff. And that's even with "Free Public" restrooms in the area. So the restrooms must be really bad. Along Chandni Chowk there were restrooms available that were basically a bathroom without a ceiling and the outer walls around butt-level high.
Fortunate for us, after a VERY LONG first day in Delhi, we had the embassy compound to retire to. The embassy is green, clean and quite. Joshua was physically exhausted. After spending the day in all that noise, he was probably the most relieved to make it back to Grandma's.
