10 Year Itch

Yesterday morning we took a Volvo bus to Ahmedabad (locally known as Amdavad) from Vadodara. It dropped us off somewhere on the western end of the city at around 12:30pm. From there we took an auto-rickshaw to Hotel Volga, which was one of 3 hotels that we had short-listed based on their review in LP. All 3 hotels are in Central Ahmedabad, which is on the eastern bank of Sabarmati River that runs thru the center of the city. The auto ride cost us Rs.60. En route we noticed that the western parts of the city were modern, well laid out, with major shopping centers and lesser crowds. The eastern side, on the other hand, seemed to be the older part and much more crowded. And our hotel was right in the center of it all .

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Vrindavan is where Lord Krishna is said to have spent his childhood. It’s just about 11km east of Mathura so today morning we hired an auto-rickshaw for a visit. For Rs.250 the auto-driver agreed to drive us to Vrindavan, take us to all the famous temples there, wait and then bring us back to the hotel; it sounded like a good deal. LP had listed a few temples with a brief description of each. Buoyed by the previous evening’s great visit to the Janmabhoomi, we assumed that they would all be worth visiting so we sat back looking forward to a great temple-hopping experience…

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