I'm completely fit again! Thanks in part to the good care of Rajesh and Shella from Tourist Guesthouse. I have lacked for nothing and I enjoy staying in their Tourist Pension.
From the moment I arrived I haven't seen much of the city or the surrounding area so I have some catching up to do in the next few days. For example, I visit a few so-called Havelis in the center of the city. These are traditional houses or buildings where different generations of families lived in succession. The houses date from the 17th century, have architectural details and are also beautifully decorated. Unfortunately, most of them are in a bad state, and uninhabited, but some have been restored or turned into museums and are really beautiful.
The next day Rajesh takes me on the back of his moped to the countryside where a friend of his lives. The landscape is a bit like Limburg in summer; rolling hills, green fields and dusty roads. It is 25 degrees and there are small sprinklers everywhere to water the crops in the yellow soil. After a piece of dirt road we arrive at a stone house with a little further 3 thatched huts, where she lived until recently. One hut to sleep, one to eat and one for the buffalo. I look out through the thatched wall, but they are never cold. Around the huts are fields with vegetables, a few goats, a few cows and if you really have a lot of money, a camel. The whole scene seems to come straight out of an open-air museum.
We are treated to tea at the house and under the copper evening sun we chug along the dusty roads, through the green farmlands back to the city. Beautiful.
