Just before sunset, we see a hawk swooping
through the clouds of pigeons. The pigeons flee in all sorts of lovely
patterns. We don't witness a kill.
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On our way to dinner, we hide from the touts
in this procession of Jains on their way to temple. We are peacefully
escorted right to our chosen restaurant. It is an Italian place and we
are hugely relieved to have something other than Indian to eat.
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The restaurant is inside the fort and so we
can look down over the city at sunset.
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I should have something
scholarly to say about Jain architecture like this temple. But all I can
say is, Wow.
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After entering the first gate, just big
enough for an elephant to get through, you cross this open courtyard to
the second and third gates to the fort.
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This is a different view of those same second
and third gates. Those round things on the top of the wall on the left
are boulders for tossing down on touts or other unwelcome guests. Too
bad we couldn't reach them.
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The fort has been inhabited for 800 years and
still is a working and living entity. The oldest "living" fort in the
world.
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We choose to stay in this place, Nachana
Haveli, outside the fort because the fort is being damaged by the
overuse of the open drains. It is a short walk up and into the fort from
here, and I don't have to skip too many showers.
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Look, Bill! Cheese balls! I'm not as far from
civilization as I thought.
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