India Diaries: Middle India, In Search of Nothing

[OZDUCK]

Thanks for a very interesting TR. You certainly visited some fascinating places.

 

[stm1sydney]

Grat TR, thanks. So many interesting sights in India. We need to add Jhansi, Gwalior etc to our list!

 

[bPeteb]

After the fort, our next destination was the Rani Mahal (the queen’s palace), about 1.5 km away. We decided to walk, a choice that sits somewhere between courage and questionable judgment. I’ll let history decide, since history loves a good march and rarely mentions the part where you’re dodging scooters and negotiating for your life.

And walk we did, through narrow lanes jam packed with every kind of vehicle and pedestrian, all of them flowing forward by a shared agreement that gaps are not found, they are negotiated into existence. Traffic here doesn’t so much follow rules as practise a kind of collective improvisation, and we were right in the middle of it, doing our best impression of calm tourists with functioning survival instincts.

A perfect description of what we've been doing for the last couple of weeks