Ever since I landed in Kutch, the people have been very nice. The place I stayed in Dholavira is in the middle of a village and some oldies from the village visit the place in the morning, sit by the fire, have a chai, greet people and leave by around 10-11am. They wear a type … Continue reading Kachchh Love
Dholavira is one of the places where the Harappans had settled down and they had built a huge city here. The Dholavira region also has a lot of birds and I was welcomed by a pretty one right in the morning. Am I the pretty one? I met a kid on the way to the … Continue reading The Harappans
The white desert or salt desert is just about 4km from the place I stay. I am still in awe of it and irrespective of how many other places exist to visit I keep going back to the salt desert. Sunrise at salt desert I saw the sunrise today morning at the salt desert. Later … Continue reading Tripping on Salt
Drove down to this place called Dholavira. It’s an island in the Rann of Kutch Lake. The roads leading to the place has water on both sides and it’s now dried up to expose the white desert which is nothing but dried crystalline salt. Photo on white desert Ek aur photo bhi banti hai. This … Continue reading Snow? No Salt
I went to a small hill nearby called Bhujio Hill. It is believed that Kutch was ruled by the Nagas. The last Naga’s name was called Bhujang. He lived in the hills and it was hence called Bhujia Hill. The foothills of Bhujia was called Bhuj. Can you now also relate to Bhujangasana, the snake … Continue reading Bhujanga se Bhuj
After a lot of riding yesterday I decided to roam only in Bhuj today. Bhuj interestingly had a lot of places to visit and frankly one day is not enough. Khaman Sev I started my day with some street food breakfast. Went to the market area and had Poha, Khaman, Dabeli, Fafda, Jelebi etc. I … Continue reading Food and Palaces – Bhuj
I visited this place called Dark Canyon. It’s a rocky place carved like a canyon by a river. Right now it’s dry and so one can get down and see the place. It’s not very big. May be 8-10 feet deep. Dark Canyon People over here are obsessed with taking pictures. That too, good pictures. … Continue reading Shutterbugs….
Later in the day I travelled to Lakhpat. It was once the major port that connected Gujarat to Sindh. It got its name from Rao Lakha who ruled the area. However they also say it used to generate Lakhs of rupees (or whatever currency it was during 18th century) of income. So it was called … Continue reading The Lost City
Me - Wow. Such nice breeze. The Wind - I can go fast. See me go even faster. My Lips - You are drying me out. I might crack soon. Me - Here you go Lips, have some vaseline. The Wind - I can bring some desert dust along with me too. My Lips - … Continue reading Conversations with The Wind
I wanted to see some offbeat places near Bhuj and after talking around, found that all the offbeat places are not near but a little away. Powered with my RE, I decided to take a LONG drive. I clocked 380+ kilometres today but the ride was totally worth it. Road today. No trees. Only shrubs. … Continue reading Where desert meets the sea
Enough people have told that the Rann Ustav is extremely overrated. So I did not book it. It’s extremely expensive too. 10k per night. To just see what it looks like, I visited the Rann Ustav as a day trip and did not stay there. After seeing Kalo Dongar, I drove down to Rann Ustav. … Continue reading Rann (away) Utsav
After reaching Bhuj and checking into the homestay, I decided to get a bike for rent to roam around nearby areas. I picked up a RE classic. With the bike I felt more confident that I can go wherever I want whenever I want. I decided to go to Kalo Dungar. It’s a small hill … Continue reading I now have a Vaahan
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 … Continue reading Heritage walk that never happened
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 … Continue reading Rivers & Lakes
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! … Continue reading Kings and their wells
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. Room where Ghandhiji sat and took lot of … Continue reading The Ashram – Sabarmati
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 … Continue reading Stupid Science City
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. 🤪 Hutheesing Jain Temple What was interesting was the temple was built when Ahmedabad had a famine. This temple gave jobs with money and food to more than … Continue reading Jains and their temples
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 … Continue reading Swaminarayan experience
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 … Continue reading A day in Amdavad
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