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Free Walking Tour in Delhi Old Quarters & Spice Market
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Free Walking Tour in Delhi Old Quarters & Spice Market

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Free cancellation available
Price is AU$13 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
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Overview
  • Enrol yourself with a nominal tribute, later if happy then can Tip More
  • Asia's biggest Spice market allows you to know about different rare spices
  • Explore Meandering lanes and maize of Old City
  • Mughal era bazaars glittering with ethnic clothing and jewellery
  • Visit an haunted ancient stepwell with mind boggling architecture

Activity location

    • New Delhi
    • New Delhi, Delhi, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • 16, Barakhamba Rd, Connaught Lane, Barakhamba, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India | Meet the guide at exit gate no 3 of "Barakhamba" Metro Train Station. If coming by Uber then find the locations google pin https://maps.app.goo.gl/1VTDVz632DS9u6E2A Try to provide your whatsapp number / local Indian number for easy communications. If you end up few meters away from the pickup point then the guide shall coordinate on your whatsapp
    • New Delhi, Delhi, India

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Spice Trails in Old Delhi walking tour with Ancient Bazaars
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English

This option includes an In-Person Tour Guide only. NO pickup and drop is included

Language options: English
Price details
AU$12.72 x 1 AdultAU$12.72

Total
Price is AU$12.72

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedKnowledgeable local guide
  • What's includedWhat's included Per Person 01 Mineral water bottle
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTip for the guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Food and drinks

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Luggage or large bags
  • Not suitable for: People with mobility impairments, Pregnant women

What you can expect

Your guide meets you at gate no 3 of “Barakhamba Metro Station”. After a quick briefing about the adventure to be unfolded, we start walking down to an ancient haunted 800 year old stepwell. Guide narrates amazing stories about its origin, haunted stories and take amazing photographs of yours as a prized memory.

Now walk for 5 minutes to reach a metro station and enjoy a short Air-conditioned metro train ride to reach the “Old Delhi”, a 400 hundred years old city still standing tall and proud.
Once arrive Old Delhi, walk begins among the historic “Meena Bazaar”, once an opulent market for precious gems during erstwhile imperial “Mughal” era, but now a makeshift market serving the most common strata of the society, vendors are selling very budget economic materials for the common masses.
Soon we see imposing stone steps leading up to the “Jama Mosque”, it is considered to be the biggest mosque of India and built by the same emperor who built the “Taj Mahal”, we know him by the name “Shah Jahan”
NOTE: Visit to the mosque will be optional only and not compulsory, Entrance Fee of the “Jama mosque” is INR 350 Per Person, Still those who don't want to enter the mosque, they can have a photo-stop from outside

Time to delve into the Labyrinth hunting , enter into the maize of Old Delhi, while walking, discover heritage houses known as Haveli's due to their traditional and heritage designs. Multiple meandering bylanes leads to many bustling and dazzling markets doing business since the imperial Mughal age. These enigmatic quarters, bathed in twilight’s allure, promise an exploration of secrets whispered through time.

Soon we reach “SPICE MARKET” and begin our spice trails. We shall bump our way to a massive warehouse building where all the big spice merchants come, see and crack deals with the spices wholesaler merchants. Big bags of spices are cut half open for display, it results in the spices and aroma fill-up the air around. We soon enter one of the famous and old Spice depot / storehouse for a briefing about many famed Indian spices. You will be surprised to know that, in your home country how heavily you are paying for some of daily usage spices in your kitchen.

We then finally head back towards the nearest Metro train station / Uber point

Location

Activity location

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    • New Delhi
    • New Delhi, Delhi, India

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • 16, Barakhamba Rd, Connaught Lane, Barakhamba, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India | Meet the guide at exit gate no 3 of "Barakhamba" Metro Train Station. If coming by Uber then find the locations google pin https://maps.app.goo.gl/1VTDVz632DS9u6E2A Try to provide your whatsapp number / local Indian number for easy communications. If you end up few meters away from the pickup point then the guide shall coordinate on your whatsapp
    • New Delhi, Delhi, India