It's March 27th. Today Hannah and I took the metro from Connaught Place in New Delhi to Chandi Chowk in Old Delhi. Parents: The metro is SUPER cheap (this ride cost me Rs. 10) and easy- just like reading The L map in Chicago. Old Delhi has very crowded narrow, windy roads and allies, older buildings and cool old forts and monuments. Hannah and I took turns going into a mosque because one of the guys at the entrance was afraid that we were going to take pictures, so I stayed outside and held our cameras while Hannah went in and then we switched places. There are lots of silver jewellery stores and figurine-types stores. Hannah bought a "singing bowl". It's a medium sized bronze bowl that you hit the rim of with a wooden mallet, then trace the rim with same mallet so it makes a eerie ringing sound. Like when you take water and rub the rim of a crystal glass with your finger. Except singing bowls are used in Buddhist rituals.
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