Discovering Gandhi

So it is almost a year later.. BUT I am finally updating my blog... I have nothing else to do right now so figured I could get caught up... Here's where I left off...

Us, with "Gandhi's harp of India"...

Today we set out with a driver and a chaperone to explore the city of Delhi. We went to a bunch of different places today and tired ourselves out, but I'm going to break up the posts and separate each of the different places because otherwise it would be one ridiculously long post.

So, two of the places we visited were dedicated to what most people here called "The Father of India", Mahatma Gandhi. We first visited the place where he spent his last 144 days before he was gunned down and then spent some time at his grave, a landmark of India.

Replica of Gandhi meditating

The first place, was a place that was dedicated to his life on this earth and the message that he had while he was on it. He was an amazing man and Christine and I both spent most of the time reading his quotes and contemplating the repercussions of them. These were some of our favorites:
I think that some of this is common sense and all of it is profound. This man was amazing.

After looking over his life, we were taken into an interactive museum where we were able to play more than learn. I did learn that between Christine and I, we have the shortest attention span of any two 23 year olds I know... amazing... so instead we took pics...

Yes, we are amazing!
We thought this looked like a giant piece of birth control... we were impressed LOL


We got most of our goofing around and wacky tourist practices out of us and strolled into Gandhi's living quarters for his last 144 days. He lived so simply, it reminded me a lot of my dad because he had so few possessions. I was really impressed that this man was not only about changing a nation but that he lived EXACTLY what he preached. It was a loss that the world lost him when they did.
Where Gandhi lived during his last days


Gandhi's last walk to prayerChristine's foot is apparently the same size as Gandhi's...


Where Gandhi took his last breath... this is a sacred place in India.

We were also able to go to the place where Gandhi is entombed. It is also a sacred place and we were required to remove our shoes... It was ridiculously hot! But we survived although we may have some burns on our feet. :)
No shoes for us...
Gandhi's grave with an eternal flame

Oh, and these were some random pics I liked from the two places :)