Tag 4 – Ahmedabad

yesterday morning: arrival in Ahmedabad (stop over for a day on our way to Udaipur-Rajasthan) after the best nights sleep I had since Germany…in a train. Nice train indeed and apparantly I sleep better in a narrow bed in a moving train than in a more comfortable bed in an airconditioned room in Mumbai… eventhough maybe I was just tired after beeing sick all night before.
Anyway it’s a great way of transportation.
So we arrived in Ahmedabad and first of all tried to find out in wich direction to move on the next day which appeared to be quite difficult considering our non-understanding and our inability to decide…anything at all.
booked a bus to Udaipur in the end in a place we for sure shoulden’t have trusted (it turned out ok in the end surprisingly) and spend the day in Ahmedabad sight-seeing. It is not a touristic city at all but it gave me my first moments of real amazement. I am wondering all the time about people and life and traffic and cows and smells and food and looks and everything I see in the streets but entering to the so called “stairwell” in Ahmedabad really amazed me. It looked like nothing as we arrived with our tuktuk we were actually considering our analphbetic driver was mistaken in the direction but as we entered the completely und touristical sight and steped down the first stairs….. it is like a temple build upsite down into the gound, it had something creepy and myterious.
and i am not able to discribe it in english.I am getting used to it I will make effords and maybe in the end I will be able to completly write in english
so also weiter auf deutsch
also irgendwie gruselig und mystisch stufen hinab zu steigen durch Saulen hindurch zwischen die Decken eingespannt sind und das ganze in Stockwerke unterteilen und zu wissen frueher war hier ueberall wasser. heute ist alles trocken… ein tempelartiger stochtrockener 20 meter tiefer brunnen, der gebaut wurde um das wasser an sich zu verehren (oder so) und in dem heute ganz viele Fledermaeuse und Streifenhoernchen wohnen
ja noch mehr zu staunen gabs in verschiedene Tempeln und Palastanlagen, die alle unglaublich unglaublich detailverliebt verziert sind und die noch viel unglaublicher gut erhalten sind.
also immernoch nicht so ganz aklimatisiert aber ich sehe schon was mich erwartet.