Heritage walk that never happened
I was reading various blogs about Ahmedabad and in one blog they mentioned about a Heritage walk. The author of the blog has written that his perspective of Ahmedabad completely changed after the walk. That piqued my curiosity. There are two heritage walks, one in the morning and one in the night both for around…
Rivers & Lakes
The Sabarmati river is the cleanest river I have seen inside a city in India. While the water might not be potable it definitely clean and not smelling and does not have any floating dirt. With this clean river the city panning authority have really used the space around the river beautifully. The riverfront area…
Kings and their wells
Given this is a hot place in summers, rain water harvesting was a thing from centuries ago. If we were to do rainwater harvesting we will make a rectangular yet random shaped asymmetrical pit and make all the water flow into it through bad looking PVC pipes. The kings were different. Obviously, they were Kings!…
The Ashram – Sabarmati
Next was to Sabarmati Ashram. Here I saw the place where Modi and Xi Jinping sat and posed (or may be discussed about India China). I saw the room where Ghandhiji sat and had all his important meetings. Saw the various Kutirs where different people stayed etc. The place is on the banks of the…
Stupid Science City
Next stop was the biggest mistake. Science city. I paid a freaking 350 rupees as entry fees. Before going in, I had doubts if it was for adults and hence checked online. Some sadists had written that it’s an amazing place even for adults on Tripadvisor. I trusted them and went in. It’s a huge…
Jains and their temples
Then I visited more places like the Hutheesing Jain temple which was also very beautiful. I somehow felt the statuses of all the Thirtankaras looked the same. 🤪 What was interesting was the temple was built when Ahmedabad had a famine. This temple gave jobs with money and food to more than 2k workers for…
Swaminarayan experience
First stop – Swamy Narayan temple. I thought it is a temple of Vishnu (Narayan). I checked google maps and there were 2 in Ahmedabad alone within a distance of 2km. I went inside to see the statue of a man in a sherwani as the God deity and not the statue of Vishnu sitting…
A day in Amdavad
As I sit at “The green house” opposite to Sidi Saiyyad Mosque, having clocked over 25k steps today, I am tired but Amdavad gave me a flavour of a lot of things. Just like a Gujarati thali. I saw penguins, I went to an ashram, I saw spiritual gurus, I went to places where critical…
Guj Thali
Had a fantastic Gujarati thali. It had the colours textures and tastes all covered. Ok. I have to agree that everything was sweet including the Samosa. I did some basic research and found this place Aditi Hall which serves good Thali. It was unlimited (everything including papad, sweet and chaas). It tasted really good, or…
Endless thoughts 