Getting in Delhi

By plane

The Indira Gandhi International airport is the arrival point for many visitors into India. The airport has all the basic airport facilities such as money changing, which is open 24 hours. If you want a taxi from the airport, make sure to get a prepaid taxi before exiting the airport, otherwise you will be accosted by hordes of taxi drivers trying to fleece you. The prepaid rates are set based on destination and are bona fide. It is also possible to take a city bus during the day, or a private one run 24 hours a day.

Most domestic flights land at Palam airport, which is a little closer to the city than the international terminal. If you are making connections, it can take between 15-30 minutes once you exit one terminal to get to the other one by car, depending on time of day and traffic. Take a pre-paid taxi from the Delhi tourism prepaid taxi booth. Watch out for the taxi touts!

By bus

Buses arrive from Kathmandu and Chitwan in Nepal (36+ hours) and virtually every city in India. They mostly arrive at the central bus terminal called I.S.B.T in East Delhi.

By train

Trains arrive at one of three main stations– one in Old Delhi which goes by the same name, the second at New Delhi which lies in Central Delhi and one at Hazrat Nizamuddin a few kilometers to the south. The first two are now conveniently connected by Metro Line 2, just minutes apart. It will also take around 40 minutes to an hour to travel from the New Delhi Railway Station to the airports by car, depending on the traffic.

A tourist ticket office is open during office hours, upstairs of the main New Delhi railway station for foreign tourists, bring your passport, and money change / cash advance receipts; a ticket office open to all is on the road to Connaught Place with longer hours and often has waiting times not much longer than at the tourist booking office.