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Mandu

Well, there's not much in Mandu, but it's an interesting place to spend a couple of days. Dry and hot and feeling a bit like Bagan, I had a nice time wandering around this arid little ruined fort/palace town in the middle of an extremely hot, barren desert. (Why didn't I know this part of India was an arid desert? I mean, I knew Rajastan was, but this place too? As always, I need to look into these things.) My hotel, the Rupmati Inn, was sublime. Perched atop a gorge about 1 km from the main ruins, it was a very nice place to spend a couple of extremely quiet days. A nice break from Indore and it's bus stand.
Jain temple detail
Jain temple detail		 The main palace, I forget what it's called
The main palace, I forget what it's called		 These lasses live by the entrance to the part of the ruins you have to pay to see
These lasses live by the entrance to the part of the ruins you have to pay to see		 Behind the main palace is a majestic tank
Behind the main palace is a majestic tank		 Here it is from the front again
Here it is from the front again		 With a tree
With a tree
More ruins behind the palace
More ruins behind the palace		 Everywhere you look in India, women in saris are carrying bowls of bricks on their head
Everywhere you look in India, women in saris are carrying bowls of bricks on their head		 See
See		 Pillared hallway
Pillared hallway		 Majestic crumblings
Majestic crumblings		 The tank
The tank
Rebuilding India: One bowl of rocks at a time
Rebuilding India: One bowl of rocks at a time		 Cow, crumbling
Cow, crumbling		 It was so hot
It was so hot		 More majestic crumbling
More majestic crumbling		 Ugly American makes peace sign
Ugly American makes peace sign		 Worker tosses wrench
Worker tosses wrench
Left the exposure way too high, got this
Left the exposure way too high, got this		 Baobob tree
Baobob tree		 Village girls
Village girls		 I mean, it was hot
I mean, it was hot		 Inside a Jain temple
Inside a Jain temple		 Outside a Jain temple
Outside a Jain temple
She really looks like a supermodel from the 1970s whose name I can't remember
She really looks like a supermodel from the 1970s whose name I can't remember		 Nice kids in this town
Nice kids in this town		 Jain temple
Jain temple		 Bats in a baoli
Bats in a baoli		 Jamila
Jamila		 Outside a ruined temple
Outside a ruined temple
Headless Buddhas, everywhere you look.
Headless Buddhas, everywhere you look.		 Outside the same temple
Outside the same temple		 She sort of dared me to photograph her
She sort of dared me to photograph her		 Nice smile
Nice smile		 Red Hindi
Red Hindi		 Another view
Another view
And more
And more		 Railings of the baoli
Railings of the baoli

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