Today is our last day in Delhi and in India. We leave at midnight so no more overnights in the hotel and therefore we have to check out at noon. But first we have to the morning to enjoy the luxury of the hotel and the free breakfast.
It is a huge breakfast area with many different selections of food from Asian to European stations to cookies and made on the spot omlettes. We have to walk multiple times just to see everything that is on offer and then we also have to decide of course.
Getting some hot breakfast is a no brainer but then trying to navigate what is spicy and what isn’t needs almost a doctorate in breakfast sciences. But we manage it and full are ready to face the rest of the day.
At noon we leave our nice room and it is time to get lost again in Delhi. The first goal for today is the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets, a more unusual request than we expected, even our driver tells us it is the first time anyone asked him to go there. The objective of the museum is to highlight the need to address the problems of the sanitation sector in the country and we are curious about it really.
It takes a bit to understand if it is open, but there is parking in the end and we walk to a nice area exhibiting the various toilets that are built by the organization even with no sewers to improve sanitation in the countryside.
The museum itself is one room only with a lot of information on the history of toilets from the antiquity to present times. There is also a lot of focus on India as we expect but there are anecdotes and photos also from other countries around the world.
We find it quite interesting to see the descriptions of toilets in places we have been like Bhangarh Fort and Fatehpur Sikri and how each of them was handling the age-old question of what to do with human waste.
It is a smallish museum but we find it interesting and worthwhile the detour with the added bonus of another room that explains how the company sponsoring the exhibit is working on making clean water available to everyone in India, a very worthy goal. And then it is time to move on to a park that is recommended by our driver, so why not, as it seems interesting.
