This morning we visited Qutub Minar, the tallest minaret in India and a superb complex of ruins which reminded me a bit of Karnak (Egypt).
One of the things I love about India is the children are always willing to be photographed.
In fact we were constantly mobbed by school children wanting to stand with us to have their picture taken.
These lovely parakeets make their nests high up in the buildings.
We then visited the house where Gandhi spent the last 180 days of his life and where he was assassinated.
The floral displays were beautiful and it was a very peaceful place.
This was Gandhi's bedroom from where he left at 5pm on 30 January 1948 for a prayer meeting.
Next stop was the India Gate. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
and unveiled in 1931, commemorates 13,300 named commonwealth servicemen and also
acts as a national memorial to all the 70,000 soldiers of undivided India who
died 1914-1921, the majority of whom are commemorated by name outside the
confines of India.
And clearly security is taken very seriously.
And as always in India there is someone on hand to sell you a quick snack or a plastic bird in a cage.
From there it was a 5 hour drive to Agra, mostly along a new dual carriageway.