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Frequently Asked Questions
Because most itineraries start in the capital, with two or three days ashore before joining the ship. This urban prelude is no formality: it acts as an airlock, giving the eyes time to adjust to the colours and the ears to the din.
Two entirely opposed worlds. The tree-lined avenues of the new city, laid out by the British in the early twentieth century, and the teeming labyrinth of the old Mughal town. Moving between them is a journey in itself.
A fortress whose sandstone walls run for more than two kilometres, a reminder of the power of the emperor Shah Jahan, who established his court here in the seventeenth century. It is where the old city should be started, preferably in the morning.
The great artery of Old Delhi, opposite the Red Fort, plunging into a tangle of lanes where each alley has its speciality: saris, spices, jewellery, flower garlands. A cycle rickshaw remains the best way through, carried along by scooters and porters.
Yes. One of India's largest mosques opens its vast paved courtyard a step from Chandni Chowk, and the street noise drops away at once. Cover up and remove your shoes at the entrance, as everywhere.
A stone arch dedicated to the Indian soldiers who fell in the First World War, marking the centre of gravity of the administrative city: monumental vistas, flowered roundabouts and colonnaded government buildings.
Gandhi's memorial, a plain slab of black marble set in a garden at the place of his cremation. The contrast between the restraint of the site and the surrounding bustle strikes every visitor.
A World Heritage site and the direct forerunner of the Taj Mahal: a white dome resting on a perfect composition of red sandstone, amid gardens divided by canals. It shows exactly where all the Mughal architecture that followed came from.
A 73-metre sandstone tower carved with calligraphy, standing since the thirteenth century among the remains of the region's first Muslim city. It is the capital's second World Heritage site, in the south of the city.
Creamy northern curries, naan from the tandoor, spiced tea served scalding in small cups, pistachio kulfi to finish. Your cruise host will point you to reliable tables — advice worth its weight in gold on a first visit to India.
