A Trip To Law Gardens And Beyond

This is the famous Law Garden Market. Essentially it sells traditional Indian/Gujarati female clothing like scarves and what-have-yous. I'm so sorry I'm not the inquisitive traveller who seeks out every piece of detail to share with you, I'm more of the photographer who just snaps away whatever his eyes fancy.

This is the first thing I spot upon alighting the autorickshaw. A mini-ride in the middle of nowhere - okay nowhere for me at least. I didn't see any happy children madly running around trying to get their mothers to pay for a ride. It looks like it's a manual-powered construct.

Leigh got Amit to help her take a photo of the camel and her. I like photos like these, the ones where I capture people who are being captured by other cameras. Not so much the voyeuristic pleasure, but more the imagined grasp onto something that comes close to real emotion.

This kid was playing around the bazaar, he just twirled around a nearby lamp-post and that was enough for him. Shoeless, dusty and cute as a button.

This is the lady Leigh bought something from. Initially we walked away to see if the other shops might offer anything better. In the end Leigh really wanted that top she saw at this shop we walked back just to get it. The lady was really nice and accommodating. She thanked Leigh really sincerely - something about Leigh being her first customer of the evening or something. You might find a posed photo of her on Leigh's blog.

The Shopping Face

Vendors stroll along this stretch constantly, each one coming up to you and bugging you to buy their wares even if you try and ignore them. The beggars on the street also do the same thing, they stand behind you constantly speaking in a pathetic voice to try and get you to give them some money. More than one of them have their kids hovering around with them, to be used as leverage. This drum (I am guessing) dude didn't bother me.

This is Leigh asking me if that's a nice top.

This is just one of the random cart-shops you can find here at Law Garden, but my advice is not to bother with this area unless you really really really want that traditional female apparel. Otherwise there's nothing to be found here. Okay, I don't know, I didn't walk from one end to the other, I only did about half, and in that time I can only recall that I was sure all the shops I passed sold the same thing, just maybe sometimes the stall owner changed.

I need to sleep now. I keep sleeping later each night and I'm not even doing proper things like researching, revising or studying. And trust me, I need to study, this Integrated Marketing here is nothing like what we have in SCI. Here it's pure Marketing theories, SCI's one seems more geared to the advertising side of things.

Floundering,
Erwin