'Thrilled' was not the feeling that came over me when handed the basket containing a live cobra. Neither was, 'happy', or, 'relaxed'. Nonetheless, the poor creature completely ignored me and couldn't take his eyes off his handler, who then promptly tried to shake me down. I stuck to my guns and didn't back down despite his terrifying companion, and I think we parted ways respectong each other, if not as friends.
Today was an excellent day of site-seeing, thanks to my very friendly and helpful driver Akbar. He took me to Humayun's Tomb, Rashtrapati Bhavan ( the President's house), the Secretariat Buildings. the Raj Path, India Gate and the National Museum. He then took me to a great little lunch place:
After some excellent Chicken Tikka and garlic naan Akbar dropped me a the dilli haat market in INA, where I found some cool stuff at good prices.
I will log several posts in order to keep anyone of them from getting overlong, and will include more photos and details from each of the areas visited today.
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