S L Song : Love to travel but hate the travelling

Monday, April 23, 2018

Lunch at Safari

We came here for our customary lunch (i.e rice, prata or naan with curry)

Naan and rice

Butter Chicken

Mutton Curry

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Sacred Heart Cathedral

We wanted to visit a church in Delhi. We chose this Roman Catholic church from google search.

Construction of this church began in 1930

The architectural style is Italian

Ceiling fans are fixed to the walls

Shrine for Mother Mary

Feroze Shah Kotla

Delhi has seven early capital cities beginning from the 12th centry to the 17th century. Ferozabad is Delhi's fifth city built by Feroze Shah Tughluq in 1351. It is now mainly in ruins.

Jami Masjid

Going up the pyramid structure

The Ashokan Pillar

It was brought here from Punjab in 1356 by Feroze Shah

Brahmi Script on the pillar

View of the mosque from the top

Going down

The LaLit New Delhi

We managed to arrange for our guide to pick us at the National Museum. We then went back to the hotel to collect our luggage.

Central Asian Antiquities

The rare collection here are mainly discovered from the oasis along the trade routes known as Silk Road.

Buddha with six disciples

fragments of painting from a stupa in Miran

Bronze statue of Buddha from the Ming Dynasty

Thousand armed Avalokitesvara

9th century, Dunhuang

Another professional photographer

Horse Rider

7th-10th, Astana

This museum has nearly 17,000 paintings, representing all important styles of Indian miniatures. The main styles are Deccani (south), Mughal (spanning central and north), Rajasthani (west) and Pahari (hills of the north).

Miniature paintings in India flourished under the Mughal rule of emperors Jahangir and Shahjahan.

The paintings are known as miniatures beacuse they are usually small paintings used as a book illustrations or to be kept in albums. Classifying these paintings as miniature is misleading. They are on average the size of A4 paper.