Humayun Tomb - a major tourist attraction?

After visiting few tombs, I have realized I am not enchanted by them anymore. All of them more or less gives me the same feeling. However, Humanyun tomb had a museum too inside the structure in a separate building but I could not much appreciate that.

The structure I am going to show below has an intriguing story. When in some battle, soldiers had taken shelter under a rock in a hole, a spider had built a silver web on the opening of the hole and hence were not caught by the enemies. It was later solidified like below.

One of the interesting fact was, all of us could not much remember the history of family of Humayun and thought would rely on writings on various cemented walls.

We could make out that Humayun was grandfather of the great Emperor Akbar. Guess what, at the same time someone asked me who built Taj Mahal and I was so much into Akbar that I replied Akbar and all had a good laugh.

However me and my family clicked lot of photograps happily.

BTW we passed by the India Gate on our way to the tomb and captured few clicks of that too.

I found this interesting link http://www.delhicapital.com/monuments-in-delhi/humayun-tomb.html

Fashion trends in New Delhi Vs Bangalore

Delhi and Bangalore are considered to be among the most hep and happening places of India along with few other cities certainly. I am always intrigued by the difference between the two places in terms of fashion trends which is actually huge according to me. Hyderabad is not included in the list as I could not much enjoy my stay in Hyderabad. There would be no mention of cities like Chennai or Pune as I do not have much idea of these places. Ranking that I have added in my blog is per some article that I read sometime back.

Mumbai ranks first in fashion. Dresses of the newly released bollywood movies would be seen worn by ladies as soon as possible or even before the movie releases. At the same time Mumbai is very costly city. Shopkeepers have to keep the trendy clothes per fashion to remain in the business. Not much of my thoughts for this city.

Delhi is an amazing place, barring its extreme climate as is mentioned in a bollywood song ye Delhi ha mere yaar. One night in summer when I did not switch on A.C and decided to sleep only under fan, I found myself sweating. Delhi, supposedly ranks second in fashion. I agree with this research result very much. The fashion moves very fast  here. I visited the same shops last year and found good amount of differently designed dresses this year. Another attraction of Delhi in terms of fashion is, one get dresses currently in fashion at pretty much low costs compared to Bangalore for the same dress. One need not visit malls, Centrals etc. to get them, rather most of them are available at small shops. I am generally hesistant in visiting open market places for no specific reason, but in Delhi with my family I do not have any hesitation.

Ladies are very fast in identifying the current trend including my nieces and implement it much faster. I very much choose my dresses according to the trend and seeing others (copy-cat). The city looks colourful with people wearing colourful dresses especially gals. Whenever I visit Delhi, my shopping spirit is at its peak as I know I would get the latest at the best price. Same is called as Sasta, Sundar, Tikau as slang in Hindi.

Generally taking photographs at these crowded places is prohibited in Delhi, thanks to terrorists! I took permission from these vendors and captured these

I had chance to visit Sarojini Nagar as well, one of the most crowded shopping places of Delhi. No photos allowed, so we just clicked outside the market area.

I did some cool shopping from this market and am very happy.

Feeling is different in Bangalore. I do not know of any shopping places apart from malls, centrals, shopper stop etc. I feel people are not as updated and passionate about changing fashion trends as in Delhi. In fact Bangalore follows Delhi in fashion. Dresses I find now in Delhi would come to Bangalore after few weeks or may be a month or likewise. Brand, Brand and Brand is the only thing that comes to my mind while buying dresses in Bangalore. However I am happy with them too. The article that I read ranked Bangalore to be the third in fashion trends much in accordance with my views.....hehehe...

Chimney climbing Vs Life!

It may sound weird when I compare chimney climbing/rappelling or rock climbing with our own lives but there are striking resemblances. When I tried rappelling, there was a minor accident and I had circled around the rock and fell back on the top but was pretty safe and then I was so scared that the guide had to actually cajole me to do again and I was good. Now there are many situations wherein we face minor setbacks and need to regain momentum either from the virtue of self-motivation or a guide (in case you are lucky to have one). I rely more on self-motivation. This activity was actually very enriching wherein I learnt to take care of myself. No amount of external support could help us until we help ourselves and when we help ourselves we tend to get unforeseen support from unforeseen sources/forces.

[Everything looks far unless you try it yourself]

The next activity was chimney climbing on the same day or 3rd March 2012. It required participants to lift their own weight by properly balancing themselves with the help of legs on a wall while resting their bum on the opposite wall. Absolutely thrilling! I remember I moved little up and asked the guide if I could come back to which he immediately replied 'Going up is easy, coming down is hard'. Same do I feel in life. When we start taking little steps towards our dreams we raise ourselves and then enter into risky situations wherein all of a sudden expectations rises sky high but then we cannot come down and be again the unknown self. Similar is the suggestion given by Lord Krishna to Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita when he said "You can't run away from the battle ground else you would be demeaned by future generations, highly against your current dignity". Who would want this? Lord also said that only lucky people get the opportunity to be part of such wars.  Every war/obstacle is an opportunity indirectly, depends on the way we take it. I need to imbibe this. [Sorry, no photos here]
Next activity was boulder climbing. A relatively hefty man was not able to climb up :) or rather take the first step  to get the grip of the boulder. The guide said, taking the first step is most difficult. He also guided by saying there are different points in the boulder which are better for a good grip and balance ourselves while climbing up. He said keep finding those points and move up. Easy to be correlated to our life. We cannot move in the same way as the world is changing very fast and we should be able to go with it else I would categorize the person to be highly incompetent. We should be able to find those points which can really help us with our dreams. I think I am myself learning while writing, hehe!

[I climb up as the guide in red T-shirt watches]

After all these laborious activities we were happy to have a water activity which certainly was not fun for me as I don't know swimming :(

We were served lunch and after a break we were sent out for trekking. I rested wherever possible.
All in all the day turned out to be very insightful and enriching.