Surprise gifts at bedsides in each room.A capital way to begin your discovery
of India.The world is the body, Delhi is its soul-is how a 19th century poet
described this city that has ever been so many things to so many different
people. To the weary travelers on the ancient silk route it was the first plain
after having crossed the Himalayan Mountains with the promise of shelter,
food and business opportunities. To the Afghan, Turk, Greek, Arab and
Roman kings it was a vast and inexhaustible source of treasures of all kinds,
to the Chinese travelers it was the land of knowledge and wisdom. Its ageless
face saw the advent of Islam. It saw empires being built and destroyed or
even merely dismantled to make way for the new and Delhi lived on.The
British created their own Delhi with large well planned avenues and planted
10000 trees with 112 kms of hedges that it would be green round the year
abundant with flowers a botanical paradise. The seat of the British Empire
Delhi of 1911 was planned to resemble -an Englishman dressed for the
climate-. Its planners and main architects decided that it would be neither
hindu, nor Muslim, nor Buddhist, nor English nor Roman but IMPERIAL a
house for the Viceroy that resembled -a giant Indian bungalow, embattled
Rajput fortress and Mughal tomb with shades of Buckingham Palace with
English country house comforts. Delhi is perhaps the only city in the world
that fuses its past present and evokes its future without losing an iota of its
identity. 1300 monuments speak of her antiquity of the ambitions of men who
thought they could hold on to her but history proved otherwise. A popular
superstition is that it is also known as the -graveyard of dynasties- with every
one of its cities built there heralding the death the dynasty that built it.Thus,
Delhi is a Melting Pot of cultures, politics and religions of India-s colourful
past in its monuments, its palaces, and in the faces of its people that they
narrate the story of their glorious past.New Delhi is a capital of modern
India.Overnight : In Delhi
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