Delhi is the federal capital of India. It is by Delhi that forward, on arrival as at the beginning, the majority of the tourists visiting India. The formalities are simple, the customs officers débonnaires Delhi like all the cities which have a relative past of centuries can be divided into two considerable areas the Old and the New and no other city but this can be a perfect striking contrast between the two each complementing the other .

Qutub Minar,a 72 meters high minaret going back to eight centuries. Each one of its stages to the red sandstone grooves is decorated with stone stalactites and is decorated sourates of Coran. On the other side of the esplanade on which it is drawn up, rise the remainders of a mosque (Quwwat-ul-Islam) which was built in a heteroclite way with the remainders of a Hindu temple which was there, before to the seizure of power by the Moslems from the very start the the 13 2nd century.

Jama Masjid, or the  Large Mosque, is all with the opposite, the north of the city, in Old Delhi, in the heart of an inextricable bazaar where one could stroll of the hours. Built to the 17 2nd century, it is the vastest mosque of India. Its gigantic esplanade can accomodate, in addition to capacities of the vast room of prayers, tens of thousands of faithful. It is bordered of galleries. The mosque is characterized by three enormous domes of marbles white and black in alternation, the remainder of the building being red sandstone.

Not far from there and also from red sandstone, obviously:)), Strong Red. It is in a worse state of conservation than that of but justifies the visit nevertheless. The most delicate monument and most beautiful (with my taste!) is the Mosque of the Pearl, very of white marble, which one owes with the last of Large Moghols, the Aurangzeb Emperor.

Reaching  in New Delhi, there will be a choice between several interesting visits. For those who have an interest in art will not want to  miss the  Indian Museum.Thoroughly  renovated, this superb museum presents its collections of old art (primarily sculptor of stone and bronze), but also miniatures of the various schools .

The Rajpath,The  India Gate, a  memorial   the First World War. The on the other hand, western side, Rashtrapati Bhavan, old palate of the viceroys of the Indies, from now on residence of the President.

Going down still a little towards the south, one will not avoid visiting the tomb of the emperor Humayun, wonder architectural of red sandstone and white marble. Humayun was the son of Babur, the first of the large Moghols conquerors, originating in Central Asia , and the father of Akbar, most prestigious of Large Moghols. Humayun itself règna only one ten years at the beginning of the 16 2nd century. For me, the tomb of Humayun is the most beautiful monument of the city.

Not far from there, those which have a little time will make the hook until Nizam ud din , very venerated tomb of a Moslem saint within an old working with the tortuous lanes.

In the same district (with two kilometers and half nevertheless), one will rest while strolling in Lodi Garden, park maintained good, in the medium of which the tomb of Sikandar Lodi is. Lodi constituted a Moslem dynasty, originating in Afghanistan, which règna only three quarter centuries; they were détrônés by Babur in 1526.

Many other places remain to visit in Delhi, like this astonishing temple of the lotus, a temple Baha' I of modern architecture but extremely original, the temple Sikh, the temple of Lakshmi Narayana, very built out of white marble in 1938 according to the style of the temples of Orissa (known as also temple of Birla, name of the industrialist richissime patron of this temple), Raj Ghat, place of cremation of Mahatma Gandhi, near of the river Yamuna, the interesting one