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Published: March 12th 2012
07.00 Hours Sunday 11 March
Paco and Antonia arrive outside the Kesar Palace and a few minutes later the car arrives and we are on our way.
It’s a 2.5 hour drive to the first stop which is Kumbhalgarh Fort. The road is not the best but if we want to see the fort and the Jain temple at Ranakpur then a long day by car is the only.
I brought some nankeen (a sort of savoury stick) and we share it as we go.
We arrive at the fort and spend the next 3 hours wandering about.
After that the driver heads towards Ranakpur, we stop some 20 kilometers before and have a good if overpriced buffet lunch. (It was 6 quid each )
We then set off for Ranakpur.
Again we spend a couple of hours wandering round the temple.
On the way back the driver stops to buy some kind of pot at a sort of roadside shop.
In the yard next door a women is making some sort of clay plates and I
go in and have a look around
A bit basic to say the least. Probable just subsistence farmers making a few extra rups.
A group of very small dirty shoeless children come into the yard. They are very happy as I give away all the fruit/biscuits/nankeen and anything else I had that was edible.
We all fall asleep on the way back and arrive back at 6 a long and hot dusty day. But the Fort and especially the Temple made it all worthwhile.
I say my goodbyes to Paco and Antonia, we may see each other again in Varanasi later in the month
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Kate
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Kumbhalgarh Fort!
Wow...................now that is my cup of tea........or should I say 'Chai' how magnificant does that look, what a reward at the end of a hot bumpy drive!