We took the hoho bus to 18 Delhi hotspots and loved the journey. If you are tempted, just hop on for a smashing tour of the capital -- both old and new

It was a foggy weekday morning in Delhi. A short distance away, ITO was waking up to a busy day, and I was on a mission. My aim -- to find the real Khuni Darwaza. On my previous criss-crossings across the Capital, both old and new, I had managed to locate three Khuni Darwazas, in different parts of old and new Dilli. Also, I wanted to revisit Delhi's monuments and popular hotspots. But there was a catch. I had only a day or two for the trip.



I was in 'trippy' mood anyway, and decided I'd try out one of Delhi's recent attractions -- the Hop On Hop Off (HOHO) bus that was introduced right before the Commonwealth Games. For once, Delhi was at par with cities abroad. From London to Sydney to Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Dublin -- they all have their own HOHO buses for tourists and citybreds.

Hop scotch
The advantage of these buses is that you get to cover a host of places, get up from any of their pick-up points, get off, do your own trek and take the bus again from wherever you fancy. So you don't have to follow the boring routine of regular tourist buses, take as much time as you want at any location and don't have to keep looking behind your back to figure out if your bus was leaving.u00a0
The brochure here said the bus goes to 18 hotspots across old and new Delhi and covers a wide variety of places -- from historical monuments to popular shopping destinations, museums to even temples.