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Sports and outdoor activities
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The recreational activity most likely to appeal to visitors in the pre-monsoon months has to be a dip in one of Delhi's
swimming pools
. Other local diversions include
bowling, golf
, and even
rock climbing
, on crags on the outskirts of the city, during the cooler months.
Bowling Alley , Qutb Hotel , off Sri Aurobindo Marg tel 011/652 1010; Xanadu Bowling Lanes, South Delhi Club, Greater Kailash 1 tel 011/647 3988. Delhi Flying Club , Safdarjang Airport tel 011/461 8161. Temporary membership available. Delhi Gliding Club , Safdarjang Airport tel 011/463 6052. Call for details of a day's flying. Delhi Golf Club , Dr Zakir Hussein Marg tel 011/436 2768. Busy and beautiful 220-acre golf course on the fifteenth-century estate of the Lodi dynasty, planted with over two hundred varieties of trees, which also acts as a bird sanctuary. Monuments and mausoleums, such as the ruined barakhamba on a hillock next to the seventh green, dot the grounds. Temporary membership is available. Delhi Lawn Tennis Association , Africa Avenue tel 011/619 3955. Delhi Riding Club , Safdarjang Road tel 011/301 1891. Morning rides start at 6.30am and afternoon rides at 2pm; open to the public by prior arrangement through the Club Secretary. Delhi Tourism , N-36 Bombay Life Building, Middle Circle, Connaught Place tel 011/331 4229. Local activities such as rock climbing, paragliding and water sports, plus treks as far afield as Sikkim.
Indian Mountaineering Foundation
, Benito Juarez Marg tel 011/467 7935. Official organization governing mountaineering and permits throughout India, with a library and an outdoor climbing wall. Some equipment can be rented here, and you can get information on local crags and climbing groups. Other useful information
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