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RE: TRAVELMAN JAISALMER INDIA: Sometimes You Have to Find out For Yourself
Nice picture!
You got an upvote, so it would be kind to follow this account for more upvotes in the future :)
Nice picture!
You got an upvote, so it would be kind to follow this account for more upvotes in the future :)
I don’t particularly like being told by a bot how to be kind, especially when it’s based on a quid pro quo type exchange and feels a bit like ...horrible. So, I pass. I have a suggestion for what to do with your future upvotes but I’ll leave it up to you.
Excellent suggestion!!!
Bots, as well as bot-like bot-heads and their pointless comments, are starting to get really annoying, even irritating. Recently, I've had more and more irksome comments (beneath my posts) that feature a few banal words and then a large, ugly, irrelevant image or a bizarre animated GIF.
But I guess all that crap is an inevitable part of this platform. The best we can do is ignore them. Or maybe suggest alternative action. ☺
Your experience at the old mansion reminds me of several experiences we had (regularly) in India, particularly in Haridwar and Rishikesh.
As we wandered around the town, a "holy man" of sorts would approach us and politely invite us into his ashram, maybe for a cup of chai. If we entered, within minutes he'd be steering us to the book shop or the gift shop, and making pathetic and blatant attempts to sell us anything. We'd just turn and leave.
Hope it aint getting too hot out there in the desert. One scorching day in Jaipur was waaaay tooooo much for my Canadian constitution.
It was hot! I’m in Verkala Beach today and it’s hot and HUMID! I leave india tomorrow and go to Sri Lanka. The fact that it always seemed like I was a financial target in India was the downside of this leg of my journey. It discouraged me from talking to locals, and when I did, I never knew if they were saving me or robbing me. The Haveli was simply a tourist trap type attraction that only cost me three bucks and twenty minutes of my life. It’s listed high as a THING TO DO in Jaisalmer. Not for me. ...Southern India, Verkala Beach- I’m really not surprised, but it feels like a slightly different country. But El Paso Texas and New York City are almost like different countries as well.
I hear you. While I have quite a few pleasant memories of India, they are all buried far down in my subsubsubconcsious. My accessible memories of the country are similar to what you mention above.
But when I went south, particularly Goa and Kerala, I too felt like I had gone to a different country. A much nicer place....
And when I landed in Sri Lanka, it was like I was on a different planet ... diff from India, that is! It was much cleaner and much more civilized, and the people were very decent and pleasant.
(Interestingly, I did not find the Sri Lankan women very attractive ... to my tastes, that is. I distinctly recall seeing only 1 woman whom I thought was "beautiful" ... subjectively speaking, of course.)
I'm sure you'll like it, and you might even be surrounded by hordes of beautiful, alluring women!!
BTW not only is this a bot, it’s a lying bot. No upvote was given, just spam.
I had actually checked for a vote, and noticed that it was not there. I'd wondered if the "lying bot" had UNvoted after reading your comment.
No. Never upvoted. I've had that before, bot or not, they say they upvoted and didnt, and ask me to follow or something. Whatever, i just enjoy calling them out of their hole.