Jyo and Chattu and I decided to visit the local Swaminarayan temple which is showing up as a sight to see. We took the cab we had used for the match and Azhar drove us there.
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| Swaminarayan Temple, Rajkot |
It was a large campus with beautifully designed temple made of sandstone perhaps. We walked into the temple and found many devotees standing and sitting in front of the idols. Women are not allowed too close to the idols - there is an enclosure of about 2-3 metres in front of the idols where it is mentioned that women are not allowed.
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| Jyo and Chattu |
We walked around the temple and took some prasad - fruits - and sat down on the benches chatting. It is very conducive to sitting peacefully. After a while we headed back to the hotel.
Our morning walks are getting colder. We managed a full circle of the race course and then on the way back decided to try the popular breakfast here - gathia and jalebi.
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| Labela Ghatia |
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| Ghatia and jalebi - local fav breakfast |
Though many sweet shops offered this breakfast we were advised by Prakash our driver on the Somnath visit to go to Labela Gathia which is behind the Gandhi museum. So we walked there and ate a bit - too heavy for the morning snack I felt. We walked back to the chai place across Gandhi museum and headed back.
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| World's best chai |
Jyo and I decided to head off for a walk again and went window shopping. I tried some sandals which did not fit and then found a cute book store called Rajesh Book Store where I bought 'The Almanac of Naval Ravikant'. The shop keeper lamented the drop in reading habits and of people buying books and we parted on this somber note.
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| Rajesh Book Store |
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| Dahi vada at Sargam and my new book |
Jyo and i walked all the way to Sargam and ate a dahi vada.
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