Delhi Travel Guide for Backpackers

Delhi is replete with numerous monuments containing history of more than 5000 years. With concrete and still existing monuments/ evidences of Mahabharata age is an experience that keeps you spellbound. Delhi is vast and circular. Though major monuments of Delhi you can see in 3 days but if you are interested in history, culture and their evolutionary evidences, Delhi travel may take more than 10 days. You can opt for mode of commuting out of several options available.

Auto- rickshaws are significantly cheaper than taxis, especially if advance bargaining is firm, but they have drawbacks in Delhi. The chief of which is their open sides, which offer no protection either from the cold or from the black exhaust fumes emitted, so it seems, by almost every vehicle. An additional advantage of taxis is that their drivers usually, but not always, know the city better, and they are also, of course, faster, quieter and more comfortable. It will certainly be more economical and convenient to arrange a daily rate for visiting South Delhi and a half day rate for North Delhi.

Much of Old Delhi and parts of New Delhi such as the west end of Raj Path and the Connaught Place area are best toured on foot.

In East Delhi, where several lengthy halts are made over a not very long distance, hire of a vehicle for a day or half a day is uneconomical. Cycle rickshaws are only permitted to operate in Old Delhi; they are suitable for short journeys and are great fun except, perhaps, for the cyclist- help him by dismounting on a steep incline.