End of December 2024     Start with what? Perhaps the way I travelled. On the one hand, it stressed me out, but on the other, it was chic and comfortable. It was a hybrid: I was on holiday, but Diamir gave me a few extra days for exploring and socialising. There are several agencies … Continue reading Gujarat – Afterthoughts → Read more

21. + 22. December 2024     During my preliminary research on the internet, I had found pictures of piled up large rocks and a fort. That looked like something I wanted to see. This structure is located in Idar, a ‘zero point’ on the tourist map. All the more exciting to go there once. … Continue reading Polo -> Idar -> Ahmedabad -> Delhi – The best comes at the end → Read more

20. December 2024     The distance to the next accommodation wasn’t that far. I had thought of something, but they were against it, they wanted me to travel differently, so to speak. So we travelled quite leisurely with stops to the Polo Forest. The first stop was at a Hindu temple, where probably nobody … Continue reading Poshina -> Polo – The discovery of the temple ruins → Read more

19. December 2024     Darbargadh has been in the family for 8 generations and is a chic estate. The son of the house was there all alone, parents, wife and children all gone (Just these days). Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos of him, he only appears in a video. They have quite a … Continue reading Poshina – The place of the sacrificed horses → Read more

18. December 2024     The next day, another building was on the agenda: the Sun Temple in Modhera. It dates back to the 11th century and is no longer used as a temple. There is only a small one on the grounds with a man:     The large one consists of a kind … Continue reading Patan -> Poshina – The temple of the waterbottles → Read more

17. December 2024     What’s a bit bad about Bhuj is that it’s a bit out of the way and you drive a similar route to the east again. The good thing is that you can see the industrialisation of this area again in an impressive way. And at some point it stops again … Continue reading Bhuj -> Patan – A village named Nana → Read more

16. December 2024     So the next day my new driver Deep arrived, an older, very pleasant gentleman, originally from the Udaipur area, but who works from Ahmedabad and is very experienced. We now have a much smaller car – and somehow I find it quite comfortable. We drove back to the villages that … Continue reading Banni Villages – New friends far away → Read more

14. + 15. December 2024     The next morning Raghu said goodbye, he had to go home urgently. The rest of us got into the car and drove quite a long way to Bhuj, the main town that belongs to the Greater Rann of Kutch. On the way, we only stopped once for a … Continue reading LRK -> Bhuj – Santa Claus in the salt desert → Read more

12. + 13. December 2024     What is grown a lot here is cotton in addition to castor oil. Most of the bolls had already cracked open and soon you could pick off the tufts.       India is known for its great fabrics and their diverse manufacturing techniques anyway. We were getting … Continue reading Muli -> LRK – The missing crocodile in the bathroom → Read more

12. December 2024     The next morning we gave the fort another chance and visited it. It had been extensively renovated in recent years and was now resplendent. But somehow the charm had been lost in the process.         But what I was really keen on were the Buddhist caves. I … Continue reading Junagadh -> Muli – The partridge was just shot without being killed → Read more