Lotus Temple
Delhi, Delhi, India
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Kalkaji Mandir
New Delhi, Delhi
An ancient self-manifest goddess shrine on a Kalkaji mound facing Lotus Temple — a 12-sided marble sanctum thronged through Navaratri.
Chattarpur to ISKCON Temple, East of Kailash
New Delhi, Delhi
The Glory of India ISKCON temple — soaring shikharas, the animatronic Vedic-expo, robotic Gita show and the world's largest printed Bhagavad Gita.
Lajpat Nagar Central Market
New Delhi, Delhi
The trousseau-and-textile bazaar — suits, lehengas, mehndi lanes, home goods and a legendary street-food strip of chaat and momos.
Amar Colony & Defence Colony Food Circuits
New Delhi, Delhi
South Delhi's beloved eats — Defence Colony's Sweets Corner golgappe and chaat, Amar Colony's momo and roll lanes and the flea-market weekends.
Sarai Kale Khan Bird Sanctuary & Yamuna Ghats
Delhi, Delhi
A quiet riverside patch of the Yamuna floodplain near the ISBT — waders, reed beds and one of central Delhi's few surviving riverbank walks.
Waste to Wonder Park (Seven Wonders)
New Delhi, Delhi
Replicas of the world's seven wonders built entirely from industrial scrap — a floodlit Eiffel, Taj, Pyramid and Colosseum by the Nizamuddin flyover.
Nizamuddin Dargah & Qawwali
New Delhi, Delhi
The 14th-century shrine of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya — a marble dargah wrapped in incense and Thursday-night qawwali, with Amir Khusrau and Jahanara beside.
Humayun's Tomb
Delhi, Delhi
The Mughal garden-tomb that inspired the Taj — Humayun's red-sandstone-and-marble mausoleum centred in a perfect Persian charbagh of channels and fountains, restored to full glory and glowing gold at sunset.
Hazrat Nizamuddin Baoli & Basti Walk
New Delhi, Delhi
The 14th-century stepwell blessed by the saint amid the living Nizamuddin basti — kalimi-kebab lanes, tombs, calligraphers and Sair-e-Nizamuddin heritage walks.
Tughlaqabad Fort
Delhi, Delhi
The colossal 1321 stone citadel of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq — cyclopean sloping ramparts, cursed by a saint to lie 'inhabited by shepherds', and largely so still.
Chausath Khamba & Ghalib's Tomb
New Delhi, Delhi
A pure-marble '64-pillar' Mughal pavilion-tomb of 1623 beside the modest grave of the poet Ghalib — the Nizamuddin basti's quiet cultural core.
Khirki Masjid & Satpula
Delhi, Delhi
A fortress-like covered mosque of 1354 with latticed 'windows', beside the Satpula seven-arched water-weir of Firoz Shah's Delhi — in artsy Khirki village.