Monday, August 15th Independence Day!! Today we went shopping at a place called Dilli Haat. We took a cab from the hotel and where we got out this elephant was on the corner waiting to give people rides. We arranged with our cab driver to wait for us. It is suppose to cost about 20 rupees an hour for the cab driver to wait around - that is a little less than 50 cents.
We had to pay 15 rupees to get into the shopping area. It was a crafts type shopping area with things such as scarves, pillow covers, bed covers, clothes, purses, some leather goods, and jewelry. Everything was pretty cheap. I got five scarves and a necklace. All for less than $35 dollars.
The picture below might be hard to see but it is a picture of a long string of kites. The big thing to do on Independence Day in India is to fly kites. They put this string of multiple kites into the air, then they were letting kids hold onto the string w/ a little adult supervision!
This is a view of the market - they decorated it up nice for the celebration. They had a band playing some type of music and they were handing out Indian flags.
After we left this market we took our cab to another shopping are called Connaught Place. This area is a huge shopping district. There is both indoor shops and an open air market. We went to one of the shops where Erica and Beth had some Indian clothes made. I looked around at some of the pre-made stuff but I wanted to wait a little bit before I started buying to much stuff. I wanted to get a better idea of the type of Indian clothes I like before I started buying.
We took our cab back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We had 8:30pm reservations at a place called Olive. It was an Italian restaurant. Jamie joined us for dinner and we had our same driver take us to the restaurant. The restaurant was very good and reminded me a lot of the type of place you could find in Atlanta - it was almost hard to believe we were in India.
Once we were done with dinner we took the cab back to the restaurant. I wanted to get to bed early so I wasn't tired for my first day at work!! The real reason I came to India!! :o)
We had ended up using the driver for about 8 hours - the total came to 850 rupees! This is about $20 and from what the other girls were saying he over charged us a little bit! If only cabs were half this cheap in the states!!
We had to pay 15 rupees to get into the shopping area. It was a crafts type shopping area with things such as scarves, pillow covers, bed covers, clothes, purses, some leather goods, and jewelry. Everything was pretty cheap. I got five scarves and a necklace. All for less than $35 dollars.
The picture below might be hard to see but it is a picture of a long string of kites. The big thing to do on Independence Day in India is to fly kites. They put this string of multiple kites into the air, then they were letting kids hold onto the string w/ a little adult supervision!
This is a view of the market - they decorated it up nice for the celebration. They had a band playing some type of music and they were handing out Indian flags.
After we left this market we took our cab to another shopping are called Connaught Place. This area is a huge shopping district. There is both indoor shops and an open air market. We went to one of the shops where Erica and Beth had some Indian clothes made. I looked around at some of the pre-made stuff but I wanted to wait a little bit before I started buying to much stuff. I wanted to get a better idea of the type of Indian clothes I like before I started buying.
We took our cab back to the hotel to get ready for dinner. We had 8:30pm reservations at a place called Olive. It was an Italian restaurant. Jamie joined us for dinner and we had our same driver take us to the restaurant. The restaurant was very good and reminded me a lot of the type of place you could find in Atlanta - it was almost hard to believe we were in India.
Once we were done with dinner we took the cab back to the restaurant. I wanted to get to bed early so I wasn't tired for my first day at work!! The real reason I came to India!! :o)
We had ended up using the driver for about 8 hours - the total came to 850 rupees! This is about $20 and from what the other girls were saying he over charged us a little bit! If only cabs were half this cheap in the states!!
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