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Top 15 great things to do in Delhi

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After the Commonwealth Games circus has left town, there must never ever be a better time to go to Delhi, with restorations of the capital's old structures and a huge expenditure on facilities making Delhi gleam, a minimum of in parts. Here are 20 fantastic things to do in India's capital. 1. Attempt Dilli-ki-Chaat- Delhi's tangy local street food, such as chaat papdi (fried wafers packed with potatoes, chickpeas, yoghurt and chilli) or golgappas (fried hollow dough filled with chickpeas and spicy potatoes), in Old Delhi 2. Go to the fantastic sandstone carcass of the Red Fort, and envision the last days of the Mughal empire and the British era. 3. Humayun's Tomb combines Persian style with local workmanship, and is surrounded by the increasingly symmetrical Mughal gardens: take a stroll here at sunset. 4. Hear qawwalis (devotional music) sung at dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya; spiritual songs definite at around sunset at one of Islam's holiest buri...

Travel information on Qutab Minar Delhi

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Qutab Minar is a soaring, 73 m-high tower of success, integrated in 1193 by Qutab-ud-din Aibak instantly after the defeat of Delhi's last Hindu kingdom. The tower has 5 distinct floors, each marked by a forecasting veranda and tapers from a 15 m size at the base to just 2.5 m at the top. The first three storeys are made from red sandstone; the fourth and fifth floors are of marble and sandstone. At the foot of the tower is the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, the very first mosque to be integrated in India. An inscription over its eastern gate provocatively notifies that it was constructed with material acquired from demolishing '27 Hindu temples'. A 7 m-high iron pillar stands in the courtyard of the mosque. It is said that if you can encircle it with your hands while standing with your back to it your wish will be satisfied. The origins of Qutab Minar are shrouded in debate. Some believe it was erected as a tower of success to signify the beginning of the Muslim rule...