Venue: Rastrapati Bhawan, Raisina Hills
Date: March 01, 2015
For many a Delhiites a trip to Mughal Garden is a ritual they perform every year. Mughal Garden is a breathtakingly beautiful and well maintained garden at the residence of First Citizen of India. It’s a huge hit with families and kids. Mughal Garden has 100s of varities of flowers, world class architecture, fountains, a botanical, spiritual and herbal garden. This year Rastrapati Bhawan opened gates to Mughal Garden on 14th February for public.
We decided to go to Mughal Garden on a Sunday. Despite unexpected showers in the morning we carried on with our plan. The entry to Mughal Garden is from Gate no. 35 of the President Estate. Parking of vehicles is allowed on sides of the road and around inside lanes. It didn’t take us much time to find a parking slot.
Luckily because of rainy weather, the turn out was reasonable and we did not have to wait for very long in the queues. After two levels of frisking we entered the garden. There is something about Mughal Gardens that whenever we go there it makes us nostalgic like revisiting a same old place but at the same time we keep looking for what’s new this time.
The directions were clear and well defined for visitors to know where to go. Which place is restricted and which area is allowed for visitors. There were makeshift washrooms and lounge areas with chairs for people to rest during the visit.
The musical fountains were adding to the surreal effect of the untimely drizzle and windy weather. Kids had a gala time looking at the flowers and reading their strange names like Eiffel tower rose and Macho man etc 🙂
Towards the end there is arrangement for drinking water and a few stalls selling hand made manure, organic food products, hand stitched ladies suits by a tailoring school students etc. We bought a half kg packet of compost for 20 bucks.
We managed to cover the entire area in a little less than two hours. We had read and followed the instructions about cameras, water bottles, mobile phones and umbrellas not allowed inside but we saw almost everybody carrying umbrellas and their mobile phones and clicking pictures after walking a few steps. Since we left our phones in the car, we requested a fellow visitor to click a couple of pics for us and send to out whatsapp. He gladly accepted our request.
Pictures courtesy: A fellow visitor friend from Mughal Garden
At the exit of Mughal Graden there was an array of stalls selling street food like Bhel Poori, Matar Kulcha, Chaat and Chana Zor garam etc. Since it was still raining and we were tired, we looked for a place to sit and have our lunch. Nathu’s at Bengali Market, CP was an obvious choice as we wanted to go to some vegetarian place without self service. Its a 20 minutes drive from Mughal Garden. We had Choley Bhature, Garlic noodles, Pizza along with faluda kulfi & gulab jamun for dessert. Nathu’s food is mostly good and even this time was no exception. Service was prompt and it brought our visit to Mughal Garden to a happy and delicious ending.
Mughal Graden 2015 details:
- 09:30 AM to 04 PM
- 13 February 2015 till 15 March 2015
- Closed on every Monday (for maintenance)
- Entry Charges: FREE
- Open on weekends
- Phone numbers: 011 23015321
Can we carry baby stroller Nd milk bottle . We have 3 child we need milk bottle Nd stroller plz tell can we carry all of these item.
We attempted this year, but the long queue scared us away.