INDIA 26: GUJARAT. Stage 1

Like last year my preferred way of travel was via Germany with Lufthansa, so a mere 19 hours from Porto, I was in downtown Ahmedabad at the Hotel Good Night.

And the first thing I did was make a little video:

As it was my first day I thought I’d take it easy and just have a stroll around the old town which is entered through the arches of the Teen Darwaza

I wandered down to Rani Sipri’s mosque  It was commissioned by Queen Sipri the wife of Sultan Mahmud Begada in 1514. It

was a Friday, so there was a sermon but it was fairly quiet.

Then on the way back to the hotel I happened to pass the fish market. As it was the early afternoon it was all closed up but still quite a smell and also nearby was a very unpleasant meat market both of which proved irresistible to a huge number of rather large and threatening red kites.

Then onto the fish market:

 

I had already decided to go veggie on this trip and this episode underscored my decision. In actual fact Gujaratis are mainly veggie anyway so it wasn’t a problem. My first meal of many would be a veggie thali from the excellent Nishat Restaurant

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