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Gujarat trip 2015-day 1

we were on a holiday to Gujarat for a week with my aunt. We left Bangalore on 11th July that was a Friday. We boarded the plane at 6:30 am and landed at 8:40.
We first went to a Jain temple on the way to our hotel. This temple is said to be one of the oldest Jain temples in Ahmadabad. After visiting this, we checked into our hotel, freshened up and left to visit the Sabarmati ashram.



This is where the father of the nation lived. We walked around, took photos bought a few things for my friend from the gift shop and whatever the usual tourists do. I forgot to mention that we had also purchased a charka. This the same place from which Gandhi started the Satya Graha movement.

In the afternoon we visited the Akashardham temple, here I came across an incident which makes me feel stupid, as I had worn three fourths and they do not allow anything above knee level. Luckily for me it was not above my knee level so they let me go. Akashardham is the temple of Swami Narayan. We went around the temple, later we had good lunch in the cafeteria and left.


On our way back to the hotel we stopped at the Adilaj Vav, this was built in the 16th century. It is a huge stepwell which is just mind blowing. Later we went to hotel Vishala a traditional Gujarati restaurant for dinner.
     

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  1. Paulomi30 October 2015 at 20:04

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