TRAVELMAN JAISALMER INDIA: Sometimes You Have to Find out For Yourself
A few more pics from Jaisalmer.
This is on my walk to the bus station...
This is a view of the Palace from The Trio Resaurant. I didn’t have a chance to go in the palace but I heard it was worth it, moreso than the old palace in the fort and one sixth the price...
These kids were walking to some sort of community hall gathering that looked celebratory. I’d just passed the Hall...
A sunset I watched from KoKos cafe in the Fort. I recommend going there for coffee even though it doesn’t have internet or many other immunities (my computer auto-“corrected” this and changed it to immunities. I thought it was funny so I left it.) The fancy coffee and ice-cream drinks are tasty, the owner’s nice and it’s talked about on the internet (so it must be good!)...
The fort wall to my left while the sunset...
Two Architects from England and a Med Student from Germany. We talked for a couple hours. Never got their names...
This Jewelry store/fort turret was in view to my right. I didn’t buy any jewelry, or defend the fort from the turret...
This is a street view of the Salim Singh Ki Haveli. It’s also a lesson in “You don’t know til you see it yourself.” It looked Magnificent online, and worth seeing. A Haveli is an old mansion. I figured there would be lots to see inside.
I walked through the front door. There was an old guy sitting at a small wooden desk. He said it was 150 INR (Don’t quote me on exact price, I can’t remember). I decided it was worth checking out for three American dollars.
It wasn’t.
I walked up this stairwell for three flights. Nothing to see on the way up...
The stairwell. The one door that would open revealed a small room with a bunch of junk in it...
The rest was a twenty x twenty foot area, probably smaller, some of it taped off because it was collapsing, an old toilet on the ground below....
There was this room, where you walk out of the stairwell and onto the roof...
View from the roof...
If you stood in the very corner of the roof, you can take this picture. It’s very deceiving. It makes it look bigger and as though it’s off by itself, it’s something you walk up to? see from afar?
Nope, Just a facade on the roof of an old building that’s falling apart. The second level of that facade isn’t open, so you merely get to come up to the roof, look at it, take a picture. I expected a P.T. Barnum style sign that said “See the Egress!” Oeehh! The Egress? Sounds like a monster or something... Oh, it was the exit.
Nice picture!
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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.
Salamalekum! Hey I think you was really enjoying the India. I always promte a street side shops because they always worthy 😉
Happy steeming