Somehow we keep making arrangements so that we have to get up early on weekends :-(. For Saturday the Heritage Walk of Ahmedabad had made its way on to our To Do list. That meant having to get up at around 6 am to be at the agreed meeting point at around 7.30 am in the morning. We all pretty much managed to be downstairs in the hotel lobby at aroung 6:45 am. As another group of hotel guests also went for an early tour we were lucky to get some breakfast as normally it is not served until 7:30 or 8:00 am on Saturdays. We walked down the hotel drive way towards Drive-in Road to get some rikshaws when we spotted a camel-drawn cart which was "parked" just in front of Himalaya mall. The camel obviously needed a rest and we were able to get some nice pictures of it.
The rikshaw brought us downtown in time. It actually turned out that we did not have to be there at 7:30 am but at 8:00 am so we had gotten up 1/2 hour to early and now sat around waiting until 8 am. Despite having to get up early the Heritage Walk was certainly worth the wait. It started with a short introduction and slide show on Ahmedabad and continued through the narrow streets of old Ahmedabad before it eventually ended at beautiful mosque. As pitcures say more than a 1000 words I attached a small slide show of the picture I took along the walk.
The heritage walk finished by around 10 am and so we had most of the day still ahead of us. We decided to pay Kankaria Lake a visit, a popular destination for families on weekend we had heard.
The riksaw driver who took Soon and me there turned out to be a preacher man as well when I respond ed to his quesetion if I believeWlieve in Indian Rupees which was actually meant as a joke but he seemed to take it quite seriously. The lake turned out to be quite nice with a promenade surrounding it. One could even go for a ride on a small train that goes along the lake. However we had picked the probably quietest time, late morning and apart from us only few people were there. We decided to take a break when Susanne received a phone call, that an ambulance was at the Ginger Hotel to care for Éva who had been sick that morning. We tried to find out what had happened and if things were serious. We were relieved to find out that Éva had called the IBM-supplied SOS number to just ask for a local doctor while the SOS-service decided that it was better to send an ambulance. So in the end things turned out to be fine and all the anxiety was in vain.
