India: Lal Qilla

Friday, November 2: Kaushik took me to Lal Qilla, or Red Fort, in Old Delhi, Chandini Chowk. It is where the Moghul kings lived. The British attacked it and took it over, removing all the jewels used to decorate the walls, and building barracks, etc. that are now called an "eyesore" to the monument. Life in those days must've been quite luxurious.

Photo: View from the front of part of the Red Fort.










Photo: Inside one of the rooms, where royalty lived.











Photo: The gardens outside of the Fort.










Photo: The walls inside- they're completely bare, instead of being bejewelled, as in the past.










Photo: Inside the rooms where the Shah Jahan lived. The lowered pathways used to have flowing water, from the nearby Jamuna River (which has since moved quite a distance), for aesthetic reasons.