On our way down the mountain, we had spotted some assemblage of buildings or tents, maybe something like a farm fair, so we all decided to do our afternoon’s worth of culture acquisition there, wherever or whatever there turned out to be.
There turned out to be a three day shopping bazaar, sponsored by the Indian Army. The Indian Army is the consulting engineer for the biggest, or what seemed to us the biggest, project underway in this country; the building of roads. As part of their goodwill initiative, they bring merchants and entertainment from India to these relatively remote regions.
It was a smorgasbord. There were tea shops, movie theatres, hardware, furniture, clothing,
gambling, fried food, carnival rides
and lots of activity in this tent city, even on this last of three days.
November 12, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I’m digging the super wide aspect of things dan….. I think if we were truly ambitious we would edit our views together and present the world with all angles of our trip, but if I did that I’d probably be late for my next adventure. so how do you go about uploading on this site? I’ll put mine up to, and people can put them together if they want.