Exploring Farrukhnagar with my friend Kathy

sorry for the delay in posts but somehow life got in the way 

today I'll take you to Farrukhnagar which is a "village" close to Sultanpur bird sanctuary,

about 25 km from Gurgaon

me and my friend Kathy set out to explore this little village on a hot day in march 

established in 1732 and once a flourishing city due to many salt mines

today "famous" for these sights

one of the entrances to this octagonal city and the Baoli Ghaus Ali Shah, a stepwell

the "vault" leading into the baoli

unfortunately they have restored it in such a way that it looks brand new

hmmm for plaster....

up up

it's a large octagonal stone baoli, stepwell

from here we got a good view of  Sethani ki Chhatri, a memorial cenotaph, chhatri means pillar pavilion

not maintained at all means that mother nature takes over

and becomes one with the structures

kind of cool how , the forces of a growing tree !

as always it was fun to explore with Kathy

I sure miss you !

another of the old entrances to the city

now a market inside the old wall

see the big spikes on the doors ?

to keep enemies outside...even if coming on an elephant !

today a tiny temple in the middle of the spiky door

two headed ? 

hahaha sometimes pictures turn out so funny !

the white bangles on her arms shows that she's married

an old haveli from the good times....the salt times....

we climbed in ruins and garbage to see Sheesh Mahal, the Glass Palace, 

the palace of the Nawab of Farrukhnagar,

built in 1711 

must have been beautiful once way back in time

by that I mean way back

I was actually kind of worried if we where going to fall through the roof at some point when trying to get in

they told us it was being restored ??

we only saw some macaques, monkeys hanging around and they sure weren't doing any repair work that I saw

I do love all these old buildings with lots of "patina"though

I must admit that I see beauty in this

Jama Masjid...some old part with inscriptions that dates back to between 1200-1287

interesting traffic with cars, bikes, walkers, auto rickshaws, camel, tractor and a mule ! 

that's India I tell you

They where flying high

the other night….Ms F and Mr A aimed for the sky….

we went to the Kingdom of Dreams and outside they have an attraction…the bungy orb !!! and of course they thought it looked fun so…

ready for take off….I think my heart was beating faster than theirs when it said swisch…and off they went….I heard a long scream….wonder if it was Ms F or Mr A that let all the air out of the lungs ?

up up into the sky ….then they where bouncing around for a while….I'm sure glad that they decided to do it before we had dinner !

Ms F looked so happy looking down on us…wonder if it was because it was finally over or ?

I was happy when they landed on the ground again …and they where all smiling and laughing so it must have been fun…don't understand how that could be….

then off we went to dinner at Kingdom off Dreams…we had south Indian dinner….dosas…yummy !

everybody has to get their picture taken with the elephant outside….

a full day with activities came to an end and I tell you ….we had no problems falling asleep.

A nice way to end the day

We went to Kingdom of Dreams. It´s a must if you are in Gurgaon.

and I found a new friend.

(all pictures tonight are from the iPhone)

Jhumroo at Kingdom of Dreams

Thank you Lisa ( and Geetu Taneja ) for tickets to the show tonight. It was so much fun and I understand what you mean by a must to see when living in India. I´m glad that we could get earphones with hinglish sound though! You are not allowed to take pictures of the show but I did get some pictures from the lobby ( which was a first for us )

Before entering the show we got a warm welcome from

( all pictures tonight are from my iPhone )

Kingdom of Dreams

Since we have friends from the Swedish head office here we have got to show them around Gurgaon.

So after work today we decided to take them to Kingdom of Dreams.

 Kingdom of Dreams is like a  mini Bollywood place with shows and restaurants and bazars. It´s actually really neat. It´s both outside 

and inside. When you´re inside it actually feels like you´re outside.

The restaurants have themes from different parts if India. So today we ate food from Punjab.The nice thing with this place is that you do pay entrance but then you can use that money to eat or to shop.

Well another busy day has gone by and tomorrow will bring ?