Having been to Chandni Chowk on the previous day and eaten whatever we could lay our sights on there, we decided to take it a little easy on Day 7. Our original plan was to visit Delhi Haat opposite INA Market and do some shopping there and then visit the Akshardham Temple. But before all this Sreejith and I decided to visit the Azadpur Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market in the morning.
We reached the market at about 8-8:30 AM. The trucks were all arriving from different parts of the country carrying Fruits and Vegetables. Each truck was normally carrying only one type of fruit or vegetable. We first visited the Vegetable Market and then the Fruit Market. The market is so huge that we could see only a small portion of it in the 2 hours that we spend there.
Sreejith took a lot pictures and was attracting a lot interest from the buyers. sellers and the labourers there. They thought of him as journalist and were mostly happy about their pictures being clicked assuming that they would appear in some Newspaper or some News channel. A couple of them were shy and only one seemed to have taken offense. He questioned us, suspecting us of being journalists, trying to show the plight of poor labourers there. But once he was sure that it was just as part of some hobby he got all pally with Sreejith and even posed for a snap.
After the eventful morning we headed towards the Delhi Haat were we would meet Vinay, who had spent the night at his cousin's place. Our day was pretty much downhill from here on. I won't describe the details but we ended up spending huge amount of money without much of our mistake. The reasons varied from sudden pot hole on an express way to a brake applied half a second too late. But the worst part was the amount of time we ended up spending waiting for the repairs.
This meant we had to skip Akshardham and even the Delhi Haat was nothing but quick lunch for us. The lunch itself was also a experience for us. I liked the food, Vinay was OK with it but Sreejith did not enjoy it at all. We did not buy anything there as we found most of the things unreasonably priced.
We reached the market at about 8-8:30 AM. The trucks were all arriving from different parts of the country carrying Fruits and Vegetables. Each truck was normally carrying only one type of fruit or vegetable. We first visited the Vegetable Market and then the Fruit Market. The market is so huge that we could see only a small portion of it in the 2 hours that we spend there.
Sreejith took a lot pictures and was attracting a lot interest from the buyers. sellers and the labourers there. They thought of him as journalist and were mostly happy about their pictures being clicked assuming that they would appear in some Newspaper or some News channel. A couple of them were shy and only one seemed to have taken offense. He questioned us, suspecting us of being journalists, trying to show the plight of poor labourers there. But once he was sure that it was just as part of some hobby he got all pally with Sreejith and even posed for a snap.
After the eventful morning we headed towards the Delhi Haat were we would meet Vinay, who had spent the night at his cousin's place. Our day was pretty much downhill from here on. I won't describe the details but we ended up spending huge amount of money without much of our mistake. The reasons varied from sudden pot hole on an express way to a brake applied half a second too late. But the worst part was the amount of time we ended up spending waiting for the repairs.
This meant we had to skip Akshardham and even the Delhi Haat was nothing but quick lunch for us. The lunch itself was also a experience for us. I liked the food, Vinay was OK with it but Sreejith did not enjoy it at all. We did not buy anything there as we found most of the things unreasonably priced.
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