Bhangarh Part-2

We left Pilani at 1030 after some chaos on the issue of the way we would take to get out of the campus.Anyways, the issue was resolved in a jiffy,thanks to TJ(he is not a new character,actually he is our own Thilli).We had to reach Bhangarh by 1800 hours so as to get inside.It was the driver's first trip to Bhangarh too,and he was inquiring about the route after every turn on the way and it reminded us of the movie THE WRONG TURN in which a single wrong turn changed their fate.When we were about to reach,everything seemed quite peculiar.The roads were converging,houses were similar to what they show in horror movies,every child,every woman(that was obvoius),every man staring us as though they wanted to stop us from going further and were the last ones to see us alive.

We reached there at 1815 and it was almost dark then.We were not allowed to enter the fort.We tried to convince the gatekeeper and presented ourselves as surveyors.The gatekeeper enquired about the way we could survey in dark.Venki was not late in replying that it was an Air-survey, and thus did not require much light.Antariksha added to Venki's statement and said that we would manage.But the gatekeeper was not fully convinced.Now it was Thilli's turn to do something.He took the gatekeeper aside,put his arms around his neck and greased his palms.

So finally after giving a bribe of Rs200(now just $4),we could enter the Bhangarh Fort.

To be continued......