Originally Posted by lhrsfo

Herein lies the difficulty with recommendations. I look for something you don’t and obviously vice versa. I don’t see any point in traipsing around some monument with 100,000 other people when the site is already familiar through film and photos and the facts surrounding it, if I am interested, I will already have read about. I am looking for the vibe of the city: what would I do if I were a local and how would I live? The last thing I want to do is stay in a chain hotel and “do” sites. That’s why I avoid travel books written by non-locals (DK’s apparently are written in Delhi mostly by people who have never left India) and buy those with content that has not simply been culled from websites.