After visiting the mosque we visited the RAM MANDIR. The mandir as such has got no historical significance. But the strange architecture of the houses around and inside the mandir caught my eye. the houses were very old. Most of them just looked like my grandmothers earlier house. the window panes, the doors, the flooring… aah!, nostalgia.
After that we have started for the next stoppage called as Rani Rupmati Pavilion (RRP).
1:00
RRP is supposed to be a barracks. But after a couple of centuries during the Rupmati’s time the entire place is converted to a pavalion from where Rupmati can see the holy river of Narmada. Rupmati never had either food or water before seeing Narmada the first thing in the morning. You can actually see a long distance towards all directions just by standing at the top of the pavilion. Just awesome. We can actually see lots of hills in the Vindhya range.
After some trekkng and adventure stuff we came back to our vehicles to leave for the next spot.
1:45
This place is called as Echo point. When the guide told us that the palace is the biggest palace in the world with the area of 43-46 square miles, the first thing that came to my mind is, how they used to communicate. There were so many sentry posts (or atleast they looked like that) through out our way to this place.
The quide explained us that these were not the sentry posts but these were the means for communication. The approximate distance between posts is 150 yards and you can communicate any 5 second length of words between them with echo.
Right at 1:45 we are standing infront of one such echo point. There is a very good history about this point too which i will leave because i dont want to spoil your fun incase you want to visit the place.
2:00
We reached our next spot called as REWA KUND. This place is another architectural marvel. Things like aqua ducts, pressure based water lifters, mixture of various architecural styles have caught our attention. Another simple yet so omnipresent thing about all the mahals we visited yesterday is accoustics. They were simply awesome. In one place you can actually wisper and the person at the distance of 30 meters can hear you.
Again there is a very good romantic story about this KUND which i am leaving.
3:00
I AM HUNGRY. That is the feeling that overwhelmed most of us. We have stopped at the MP Tourism guest house for the lunch. After giving the order we moved towards the lake next to the restaurant. The order took them something like 40 mins to prepare.
At about 3:45 all of us reached the table and ready to eat any and everything that is marginally digestible. soon the 4Ps arrived (that is Pesticides, Pulao, Poultry and Paratas). All of us ate like anything despite the fact that the food is not so great.
4:00
We started for the last stoppage of the day. The ROYAL ENCLAVE. This is the place where all the kings who ruled the MANDWA region lived. This place is a set of palaces and is build in such a fashion that the place enjoys ultimate security and entertainment.
There were several things in the place namely HINDOLA MAHAL, CHAMPA BOALI, TURKISH BATH, JAHAZ MAHAL, SECRET WELL etc. Again few things common about most of these places are like natural air conditioning, amazing water transport and bathing systems, mixture of architectures. our guide has amazing stories about most of these things.
Contd. in Part III
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!