Delhi travel guides & articles
All 17 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Delhi — newest first.
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Doing the Taj Mahal from Delhi in a Single September Day
September puts water back in the river, and you will want to be at the gate before dawn with your three-hour ticket. How to do the Taj Mahal as a one-day trip out of Delhi in September 2026, and what it honestly costs.
Walking Delhi's Tombs From the Slave Kings to the Last Mughal
Sixteen graves across Delhi in the order they were built, what each dynasty was arguing about in stone, and the 2026 tickets, closures and honest access notes.
How Delhi Marries Itself From November to February
The capital spends four months as one enormous wedding. This is the practical walk through it, from the trimmings galis of Old Delhi out to the Chattarpur farmhouse belt.
Humayunpur Is Where Delhi Eats the North East
Fifteen kitchens in one south Delhi lane serving Naga, Manipuri, Mizo, Assamese, Burmese and Himalayan food: what to order, what it costs, and which rooms will actually seat your group.
Delhi Before Seven, from Lodhi Garden to Sunder Nursery
Delhi's parks and tombs stay empty for about two hours after they open. Here are eight gates and their exact opening times.
Delhi After Dark Once the Heat Finally Breaks
Delhi between six in the evening and the last metro: where to eat, where to walk, where the music is, and the ticket and door rules that catch first-timers out.
Momos and Monasteries in Delhi's Majnu ka Tilla
A full day of eating in Delhi's Tibetan colony: where to find hand-made laphing, honest shabalay and butter tea, what it costs, and which rooms actually fit a group.
Crossing Delhi Without Getting Lost or Overcharged
The fixed-price ways to move around Delhi: metro, airport rail, prepaid taxis and the apps that set the fare before the driver arrives.
Where Delhi Still Cooks Like the Mughal Court
Delhi's imperial kitchens survive in a 1913 kebab shop by Jama Masjid and in the sealed dum pots of Chanakyapuri: what to order, what it costs, and which rooms actually deliver.
Forty-Eight Hours of Delhi's Monsoon Rituals
Two days built around the season Delhi actually looks best in, when the water channels run full, a sweet appears that you cannot get any other time of year, and every plan needs a roof to run to.
Delhi's Mughal Gardens: Where Paradise Still Grows
A walking route through the Persian paradise gardens the Mughals built across Delhi — from Humayun's Tomb's founding charbagh to a newly reopened pavilion in Shalimar Bagh — and where to still find them quiet in 2026.
The Stepwells of Delhi: The Ancient Water Palaces Hidden Beneath the Megacity
Long before the Mughals built upward, Delhi's rulers dug down — and nine of their stepped, subterranean water palaces still survive, from a five-minute detour off Connaught Place to a fort most visitors never reach.
Chandni Chowk on an Empty Stomach: Delhi's Old City Food Walk, One Lane at a Time
A lane-by-lane route through Chandni Chowk's parathas, kebabs, jalebi and century-old sweet shops — what to order, what to skip, and when to show up before the crowds do.
Delhi's Sufi Soul: Thursday Night Qawwali at Nizamuddin Dargah
Every Thursday after dark, a 700-year-old shrine lineage still sings Amir Khusrau's verses in Nizamuddin's own courtyard — here's how to be there, and where to turn if the crowd, the calendar, or the etiquette feels like too much.
The Language of Spice: How Delhi Speaks Through Its Markets
From the chilli haze of Asia's oldest spice bazaar to a century-old stall's stuffed-fruit kulfi, an honest, dish-by-dish route through the markets and kitchens where Delhi does its real talking.
The Delhi Dichotomy: Navigating the City's Two Souls in a Single Day
One honest, hour-by-hour route through Old Delhi's roar and New Delhi's calm — the monuments, the langar, the mutton korma and the metro stops that make both halves work in a day.
The best private city tours in Delhi: Old and New Delhi in a day
How to see the tangle of Old Delhi and the wide avenues of New Delhi in a single well-planned day — with the private guides, food walks and ethical outfits actually worth booking in 2026.