Dhope travels-3
The freezing circuit
Day 2 &3
Day 2 &3
As i stood near the door of mangala lakshwadeep sf express in the dawn of 26 November frosty dry winds of vindhyas penetrated my body, welcoming the coastal people to the central highlands of the country. After giving a farewell to the train at Bhopal junction we began the second phase of journey heading toward Indore, the capital of Holkars and the most cleanest city of our nation. The journey was a peaceful one as we were subjected to a six lane expressway, and had a heap of tiresome 24 hour journey so it was sleep which everyone chose rather than enjoying the beauty.
The exhausting tiresome journey was finally concluded at hotel in Indore, where we helped our selves with some hefty North Indian breakfast. The post lunch schedule included visit to historical Holkars palace and museum but it was later we came to know that Monday is observed as public holiday in MP, where all the government offices as well as monuments under MP govt. remains close, though this was new development for us flaws of our lack of plannig were exposed. Wondering what to do. A quick chat with the local autowallahs revealed us new information of sheesha mahal-glass temple a sacred jain temple located in the middle of the city.
The exhausting tiresome journey was finally concluded at hotel in Indore, where we helped our selves with some hefty North Indian breakfast. The post lunch schedule included visit to historical Holkars palace and museum but it was later we came to know that Monday is observed as public holiday in MP, where all the government offices as well as monuments under MP govt. remains close, though this was new development for us flaws of our lack of plannig were exposed. Wondering what to do. A quick chat with the local autowallahs revealed us new information of sheesha mahal-glass temple a sacred jain temple located in the middle of the city.
(pardon me for the poor quality of the picture)
A majestic religious structure in the middle of the narrow crowded lanes of Indore. Glass panes and pieces covering it from top to bottom in the interior, with eye catching statue of Mahavir. It was decided taking into consideration the diastrous traffic management of the city that instead of bus or cab well traverse through the narrow shaddy lanes by foot . After a long march me made a hault at Ahilyabai holkars palace in Indore, but had to settle for an outside view only.
A majestic religious structure in the middle of the narrow crowded lanes of Indore. Glass panes and pieces covering it from top to bottom in the interior, with eye catching statue of Mahavir. It was decided taking into consideration the diastrous traffic management of the city that instead of bus or cab well traverse through the narrow shaddy lanes by foot . After a long march me made a hault at Ahilyabai holkars palace in Indore, but had to settle for an outside view only.
But sudden information came across us that everyday in the evening in the palace they have a light and sound show, dipicting the story of Holkar dynasty of Indore. We are instructed to take a walk through the back door of the palace where existed a temple hosting the family deity of holkars, and then as night engulfed the city, the palace got torched with LEDs and laser light taking us back to the golden time of Holkars reign. For remaining part of the day we retreated back to the rooms after serving ourselves an elegant dinner.
We Goans did carry our sushegaad nature to MP, where the declared reporting time was treated like it does not exist. Later a belated visit was made to Dhar fort, which is located in Dhar village, and was later converted to Jail. Lack of maintanance was quite clearly visible but the picture-sque scene which was visible provided a golden opportunity for students to change their profile pictures. It was built by Tughlak later captured by Pawar, chiftains.The local rural houses surrounding it give you a perfect feeling of being in the northern part of the country, small mud houses standing next to one another with open terraces connected and a narrow lane in between them. And a small sports field few yards away from the fort give you a VVIP feeling of watching a match from upper stands with nothing to block your view.
Next in line was, the famous majestic Roopvati mahal, situated in a small town of Mandu, few Kms away from Dhar, though the under construction road makes you remember the Mandovi bridge construction back home. The location and fortification of Roopvati mahal was such that anyone with avid interest in military studies, would confuse it for best scouting place, to monitor movement of the hostile forces. Located on top of mountain of Vindhyas , on one end lies the northern part of the nation and on the other southern. An open structure supported by few poles and horizontal structure on top of it, and sight of the area exceeding upto 100 kms, it historically turned out to be a relaxing place built by Roopvatis husband. The far reaching awestucking view did cought everyones attention, and they did kind of forgot that they hadnt eaten anything since morning, and were standing right beneath 38-39* C.
Quick lunch was followed by the what i would call complex of Mahals, with Jahaz mahal, hindola mahal, and Jal mahal. Each fort with its interesting history and carrying forward its unique civilisational architecctural style. Hindola Mahal, built by the Tughlaq dynasty has its own unique style of bathroom. Where one stone equipped with proper ventilation, and marvelous arrangement made for entering of Hot and cold water seperately as per the demand and further its disposal, that too at a time it could fit all the 1300 wives of the monarch!
In this sentence both the part deserves an exclamatory mark one describing the engineering marvel of Delhi Sultanate and one stating the fact that the sultan had around 1.3k wives(which is more than the number of views which i get on quora). Jal mahal and Jahaz mahal both kind of belonged to same dynasties and rulers and their structure was inter-related. Jal mahal was located in middle of lake, which was artificially built and was supposed to provide water to the whole city it more ever acted like those modern day water treatment plant, and if you stand on Jal Mahal and looked at its counter part youll notice that the structure looks like a Jahaj, meaning ship in Hindi, thus came the name Jahaj Mahal. A cup of tea at the nukkad shop outside the complex brought the day three of Dhempe Dhurrandars to an end, where tiresome souls headed to hotel.
We Goans did carry our sushegaad nature to MP, where the declared reporting time was treated like it does not exist. Later a belated visit was made to Dhar fort, which is located in Dhar village, and was later converted to Jail. Lack of maintanance was quite clearly visible but the picture-sque scene which was visible provided a golden opportunity for students to change their profile pictures. It was built by Tughlak later captured by Pawar, chiftains.The local rural houses surrounding it give you a perfect feeling of being in the northern part of the country, small mud houses standing next to one another with open terraces connected and a narrow lane in between them. And a small sports field few yards away from the fort give you a VVIP feeling of watching a match from upper stands with nothing to block your view.
Next in line was, the famous majestic Roopvati mahal, situated in a small town of Mandu, few Kms away from Dhar, though the under construction road makes you remember the Mandovi bridge construction back home. The location and fortification of Roopvati mahal was such that anyone with avid interest in military studies, would confuse it for best scouting place, to monitor movement of the hostile forces. Located on top of mountain of Vindhyas , on one end lies the northern part of the nation and on the other southern. An open structure supported by few poles and horizontal structure on top of it, and sight of the area exceeding upto 100 kms, it historically turned out to be a relaxing place built by Roopvatis husband. The far reaching awestucking view did cought everyones attention, and they did kind of forgot that they hadnt eaten anything since morning, and were standing right beneath 38-39* C.
Quick lunch was followed by the what i would call complex of Mahals, with Jahaz mahal, hindola mahal, and Jal mahal. Each fort with its interesting history and carrying forward its unique civilisational architecctural style. Hindola Mahal, built by the Tughlaq dynasty has its own unique style of bathroom. Where one stone equipped with proper ventilation, and marvelous arrangement made for entering of Hot and cold water seperately as per the demand and further its disposal, that too at a time it could fit all the 1300 wives of the monarch!
In this sentence both the part deserves an exclamatory mark one describing the engineering marvel of Delhi Sultanate and one stating the fact that the sultan had around 1.3k wives(which is more than the number of views which i get on quora). Jal mahal and Jahaz mahal both kind of belonged to same dynasties and rulers and their structure was inter-related. Jal mahal was located in middle of lake, which was artificially built and was supposed to provide water to the whole city it more ever acted like those modern day water treatment plant, and if you stand on Jal Mahal and looked at its counter part youll notice that the structure looks like a Jahaj, meaning ship in Hindi, thus came the name Jahaj Mahal. A cup of tea at the nukkad shop outside the complex brought the day three of Dhempe Dhurrandars to an end, where tiresome souls headed to hotel.
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