My Lucknow Article at Gonomad
La Martiniere College, Lucknow
My Lucknow article is now up at Gonomad-
If my writing sounds rushed to you, so was my tour. The guide would literally run from one structure to another and so would some of us.We tried to form a breakaway group walking at a more leisurely pace but then we gave up that strategy quickly inside the labyrinth; we did not wish to be left behind inside those dark alleys.
Labels: Lucknow, Travel, Travel Writing
posted by Mridula at 2:16 AM
9 Comments:
nice writeup mridula ... will need it if i head to lucknow anytime :) thnx
Congrats ! Congrats ! Congrats !
Read your write-up on Gonomad - very well written. However, there is a minor typo - "the Imambara is also grand. It is said to be built around 1783, commissioned by the ruler Asad-Ud-Daulah in the time of severe famine." Nawab's name was Asaf-Ud-Daula. Asaf-Ud-Daula moved Awadh's capital from Faizabad to Lucknow. There is a famous saying in old Lucknow - Jisko na de maula, usko de Asaf-Ud-Daula. I read it somewhere that he was gay.
Thanks Sandeep.
Thank you Hobo.
Thanks for the correction Atul, I will ask Steve to change it. And thanks for all the information too.
Very nice snap and beautiful architecture.
hmmm I think thse guided tours are just like that..
Though I have been to Lucknow many times I have never enough time to feel the so called mizaaz of the city
Thank you Rajesh.
Manish I have been going to Lucknow since childhood but could see it as a tourist for the first time now.
La Martiniere College looks like it requires to be white-washed.
Perhaps the guide could've traded the time spent shopping with a longer while spent at the monuments...
:)
Sidhu, the white wash requirement may be more because of my camera handling than the state of the college. The guide did what many in the group wanted to do!
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