Friday, August 24, 2007


My last thing was Haji Ali Mosque. The story (that I have read the most often) is that Haji Ali was saint on a pilgrimage to Mecca and died en route, and requested that his body be thrown over board and that a mosque be built wherever it washed ashore. Which is supposed to be how the site for HA Mosque was chosen. The unique thing about HA Mosque is that it is built a little out to sea and there is a long causeway out to it which is drowned in the high tide, so you can only walk out to the mosque at low tide. And if you are out there when the tide comes in, well, you’re out there for a while. I made it to the temple during low tide. The causeway wasn’t too packed with beggars, though I think it often is. The guidebooks all say that the path is usually lined on both sides, but it is the monsoon season, so maybe a bunch of the beggars do something else those months.

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