Things to look out for in Connaught Place- (Delhi)

                                                        Hey! Hi Namaste this is Tulip Roy. Do you know how many times I have been to Delhi? Guess what, even I don’t remember! I was born here, even thought I was bought up in Bombay, enough of this. So tell me, what comes to your mind when you listen to the word Delhi, masala (spice), food, love, and tradition? Well in fact that is the real Delhi, so know what I will tell you exactly about that I will tell you about the heart of it all, heart of Capital of India, Cannught Place.

How to get there

                Well if you are coming from train, New Delhi is your station, CP is like 5 minutes from there. If your coming from Metro, Rajiv Chowk is your stop. If your coming from near Phar Gang, you can take a bus that will leave you to CP.

Things to look out for

                                              Well initially for tourist it’s a place to shop ad satisfy their stomachs, but it is actually a place people come to work. CP is like a merry go round so mark places that you have been, it’s a bit like Esplanade (a place in Kolkata, if you know). There are 3 place you should go in CP:

1.  Janpat: It’s a great place to shop in CP, it has the best clothes to offer you and it of course changes as the weather, if you are going in winter you will get great jackets and coats all in very cheap, if you are going in summer you will get a great spring collection, remember bargaining works like hell here, if he offering a shirt you like in Rs 600, it will come down to Rs 200 - Rs 250. Things like sun glasses, (If you are buying you should buy one sunglass in Rs 100, don’t be fooled otherwise) jewelry like bangles and necklace and funky in fashion accessories, bags, shoes, hair accessories, puppets, bed covers, they have great shalls and strolls etc are a few of things Janpat has to offer, so do visit.

2.  Palika : it is an underground market which sells clothes and electronics. Electronics are the main attraction. You should visit once and if you are in Delhi in a hot time and wanna cool down you can come here and cool off in a fun way, as it has AC and great stuff. On the head of Palki there is a park which now has India’s biggest flag, it’s a proud site and really patriotic but apart from that, a great place to sit and have fun.

3. Hanuman Mandir : Hanuman mandir is a temple of the monkey god Hanuman (and even if you are a big fan of automobile, he is the god for that too, so if you wanna keep your car accident free, you better make him happy!). This temple has the real mix of tradition, outside you can eat lots of stuff like  and drink one of the best tea in Delhi with mathi.

General

                  There’s great food around CP, I would advise you to keep your eyes open on that! N do visit Coffee Home which is opposite of the hanuman Mandir. I know you might have heard about Regal cinema, word of advice it ain’t much! You would love CP more if you love books!!

P.S. Thank you for reading! I would love a comment!!