sadara.be » delhi http://www.sadara.be strange fruit Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:24:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 majnu kha tilla http://www.sadara.be/2009/02/17/majnu-kha-tilla/ http://www.sadara.be/2009/02/17/majnu-kha-tilla/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:10:57 +0000 sadara http://www.sadara.be/?p=291 I missed my train out of Delhi yesterday evening. The traffic was awful and the rickshaw wallah very old (looked it, anyway). Should have used the metro, but I couldn’t find it. For the record: New Delhi metro station is on the far side of the main line station’s tracks – over the footbridge. No signs, of course, until you’re nearly there. So today I have some more time in Delhi. So …

Today a trip out to Majnu Kha Tilla, a suburb of Delhi, where there’s a Tibetan enclave. A haven of peace!
Majnu Kha Tilla, Delhi
The temple is fairly small, with the usual beautiful collection of thankas and rupas. I was particularly drawn to a White Tara rupa.

Get the metro to Vidhan Sabha. It’s a 10/- rps ride on a cycle rickshaw from there.

And I’ve just dicovered that my ‘waitlisted’ reservation – I was no. 18 on the list – has been converted to a confirmed reservation. I’m off to Jaisalmer. This time I’m going to Delhi Junction Station by metro. The announcements on the metro really do say: Please Mind the Gap, though there’s no gap to be seen.

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