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day 13

from ahmahabad to jaipur, the cultural and royal central area of ancient india.

Asquare84:
Op, please try and visit Kashmir. The dispoted territory between Indian and Pakistan

just follow me, i will go to northwest , but not kashmir this time. anyway i have already been to tibet, so i dont feel attracted to mountainous scenery anymore. i just want to see daily indian live .

my dinner, an anti-climax after the tandoori at lunch , end of day 12

another hotel, not the one i stayed in.

this one looked so shabby. but it may probably reject me too. incredible india.

cart for starchy food , sorry, not my type.

i bet, if these indian guys are given a chance to eat sushi or dim sum or boston lobsters, they would never touch this food again .

nothing to do with patriotism, just the nature of digestion system

a small indian hindu temple

a small mosque

man and his wife selling cooked onions

traffic jam

back lanes

tiny plaza with pigeons inside.

lemon juice vendor. funny stuff.

scaffold in the hotel. india has ambitions, they aim at china, and they feel quite optimistic about their developing speed. but india's development is still labor-intense type.

coca cola for the afternoon roaming

returned to my room to have a siesta. it was 40 degree outside.

chicken rolls

chicken meat

he also asked me to take a photo of him from back with a shop logo on the back of his shirt.

big fan towards me. i was the only customer at that time.

chicken roll, 250naira. seemed good. but i was already full.

the menu, all was about chicken.

price not high, but not low either.

i guess pretty high for indian locals.

i just pointed out whatever i wanted to eat, i did not know the names on the menu.

one whole chicken 800naira. crispy , crusty, smoky outside. juicy, tender inside. squeeze some lemon juice on it. nice !

my appetizing tandoori lunch ! yummy !

green pepper sauce, quite strong . i poured it on the chicken.

before noon, headed back to my hotel, i wanted a nap. this was the hotel building. snapped it before i sojourned around, in case i could not find a way back and needed to ask for direction

the arch

the entrance to ascend that big round thing was sealed. disappointed.

an ancient fortress among the bazzar. free to go inside. but it was under maintenance . most part closed.

after entered the ancient city walls. the thoroughfare of ancient city. the ancient city is a giant bazzar nowadays.

i went too early, most shops still closed.

the city walls.

ahmadabad , not like taj mahal, is not a tourist spot. all its ancient majesty is abandoned to the corrosion of time. so, you may find yourself in a living museum, with old even dilapidated architectures among modern buildings and throngs of people in a weekend market day.

the old and the new blending naturally.

muslim daddy with his many children and probably wives.

the city wall, quite ancient. people poured the red pigment to it in the morning. a religious form.

chocolate popsicle. it was too hot that day, it just melt before i took a few bites. 150 naira.