On my second day in New Delhi I decided to go out and see the Lotus Temple. It’s located in South Delhi and so I decided to take the metro. This involved me changing metro lines, which was a long walk but was all done inside the metro station and was pretty painless.

Bahá’í house of worship

So the Lotus Temple is named because of its shape – but in fact it is called the Bahá’í house of worship. There is apparently one on each continent. Bahá’í is a relatively new religion, about 200 years old I was told. There is a quite informative information centre once you enter the ground and you can ask any questions you have.

The visitor centre was very quiet and relaxing. I would say most people head straight for the temple. It’s hard to find calm in New Delhi so I really enjoyed chatting with the staff in the visitor centre and appreciating the peace and quiet.

Hauz Khas Village

I took a slight detour to get here to go into Hauz Khas Village. It’s a small part of South Delhi that is more upscale and it’s a bit more quiet and less crazy that other areas. To get to it you can get off at the metro stop and walk through the rose garden.

As you can see this area is pretty quiet. It’s a scenic walk, but unfortunately beside the path is quite a lot of garbage. People seem to discard their rubbish into the bushes.

Hauz Khas was formed around a reservoir. Apparently it used to be a lot larger, but still there is a nice lake that you can walk around.

Traffic

When I got back to the metro station I decided to take a picture of traffic. This station is elevated and so it made it easy to walk across the overpass and take a photo.