Day 7: Delhi

Today, we woke up at the crack of dawn, and for the first time on the trip, it had rained! We had breakfast, and went to the airport and got on a plane going to Delhi, India. Two hours later, we arrived in Delhi, and at the baggage claim, I got all three of our bags! We drove past baboons and other monkeys on the sidewalk to get to the Hotel Metropolitan, checked in, and had lunch. We then went to the Lotus Temple, a huge temple shaped like a lotus flower. We didn't go inside because there was an hour and a half long line to get in, but we took pictures from the outside. Then, we went to Qutub Minar, a huge obelisk that rises above the city, a miracle of Islamic engineering, where we saw magnificent green parrots. Then, we went shopping at the Indian Textiles Development Corporation (ITDC), where we got presents, scarves, sculptures made out of elephant bone, a jacket, and pillowcases. We then went back to the hotel and had dinner.