17 Hari Mengembara Ke Bumi India (Part 9 - New Delhi, Sightseeing 2- Qutub Minar)

Destinasi sightseeing seterusnya ialah ke Qutub Minar 
...monumen atau bangunan yang terdapat ukiran calligraphy. 

The Qutb complex, also spelled Qutab or Qutub, is an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India. The best-known structure in the complex is the Qutb Minar, built to honor the Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki.

Qutub Minar, at 120 meters, is the tallest brick minarety in the world, and the second tallest minar in India after Fateh Burj at Mohali. Qutub Minar, along with the ancient and medieval monuments surrounding it, form the Qutb Complex, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tower is located in the Mehrauli area of Delhi, India. Made of red sandstone and marble, Qutub Minar is a 73-meter (240 feet) tall tapering tower with a diameter measuring 14.32 meters (47 feet) at the base and 2.75 meters (9 feet) at the peak. Inside the tower, a circular staircase with 379 steps leads to the top. Qutub Minar station is the closest station on the Delhi Metro.

In 1200 CE, Qutub-ud-Din Aibak, the founder of the Delhi Sultanate started construction of the Qutub Minar. In 1220, Aibak's successor and son-in-law Iltutmish added three storeys to the tower. In 1369, lightning struck the top storey, destroying it completely and Firoz Shah Tughlaq carried out restoration work replacing the damaged storey with two new storeys every year, made of red sandstone and white marble.

Qutb Minar is surrounded by several historically significant monuments, which are historically connected with the tower and are part of the Qutub Complex. These include the Iron Pillar of Delhi , Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Alai Darwaza, the Tomb of Iltutmish, Alai Minar, Ala-ud-din's Madrasa and Tomb, and the Tomb of Imam Zamin. Other minor monuments include Major Smith's Cupola and Sanderson's Sundial.
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Ok, akak rasa biarlah gambar yang berbicara ye...

oouuuuiiiihhhh.... Nampak tak banyaknya beza harga untuk local dan foreigner tu?

Ok, dah beli tiketnya...250 rupees.. jom ikut masuk..

Nak masuk sini kena scan bagai..

Sekian, tour kami ke Qutub Minar :))

Selepas ni kami akan meneruskan perjalanan ke Agra pula dengan menaiki van selama 5 jam kot.. kematu lah punggung lagi..

Dalam perjalanan yang panjang tu, kami berhenti 1 kali di rest area Yamuna Express Highway untuk berehat dan makan makan... hmmm..jagungnya 'chaat masala' pedas dan sedap, nasi gorengnya juga..lebih-lebih lagi dari basmathi... walla!

Setelah kenyang, kami menyambung lagi perjalanan... dan akhirnya kami sampai ke Agra dengan selamatnya. Alhamdulillah... 

terus kami check in Hotel Love Kush..

Okeyyy... Tunggu sambungannya nanti cerita di Agra pula ye...

17 Hari Mengembara Ke Bumi India (Part 9 - New Delhi, Sightseeing 1)

Good morning from Delhi!
Kami breakfast dulu sebelum check out Hotel Godwin, hmmm... cafe nya berada di roof top. Hari ni kami akan sightseeing Delhi dulu sebelum meneruskan perjalanan ke Jaipur pula.. 

Antara tempat persinggahan kami nanti ialah India Gate, Hazrat Nizamuddin dan Qutub Minar...

Boleh tahan lah rasanya...

ahaaa... driver kami dah siap menunggu di lobby.. tapi, nampak gayanya driver yang lain dari semalam tu...mungkin dia mintak tukar kot..tak nak bawak kitorang dah.. Haaaa..yang ini nampak ok lah..bolehlah cakap omputih jugak... Namanya, tak ingat sudah...kami pun check out dan begbeg di angkut masuk ke van. Kami pun mula bergerak...

India Gate

The India Gate, (originally called the All India War Memorial), is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the ‘ceremonial axis’ of New Delhi, formerly called Kingsway. 

India gate is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the undivided Indian Army who died in the period 1914–21 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate. 

The India Gate, even though a war memorial, evokes the architectural style of the triumphal arch like the Arch of Constantine, outside the Colosseum in Rome, and is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. (source)

Hazrat Nizamuddin

Sultan-ul-Mashaikh, Mehboob-e-Ilahi, Hazrat Shaikh Khwaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 3 April 1325), also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in the Indian Subcontinent, an order that believed in drawing close to God through renunciation of the world and service to humanity. He is one of the great saints of the Chishti order in India... read more

Hazrat Nizamuddin ni adalah muslim area di bandar Delhi. Katanya, di sini adalah pertemuan tempat tabligh tabligh semua. Terdapat makam makam ahli agama mereka di sini.

ayam tanduri yang ini sedap sangat tau! so juicy.. tak banyak yang tinggal dah, so kitorang borong semua.. tak cukup pun, memasing macam terkulat kulat jer..

Ok, lepas ni moh kita tengok apa yang ada di Qutub Minar pulak..

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