Sehwan
Sharif
Sehwan Sharif rooftops
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Having arrived by bus in Sehwan Sharif, a dusty ramshackle small town of 30'000 inhabitants situated on the right bank of the Indus river at a distance of 135 km from Hyderabad, we went straight away to the official tourist accomodation for a room. The bungalows didn't look very inviting though, rather like nobody had slept there in the last couple of months, the ground floor rooms were full of dust and garbage. It just was too depressing a place to stay. And the manager, a very friendly fellow actually, sure wasn't used to interacting with foreigners. He showed this clearly by the way he talked to Xhelal only, he didn't even look at me, it was like I was invisible to him. This was in no way meant to make me feel bad, it's just that here, as in some other traditional Islamic societies (and Hindu ones too, by the way) it would show lack of respect for a man to converse with a women not of his family or clan. Makes one wonder what the poor administrator would do if one day some female guests without male chaperonage would come to his place? | |