This blog post is a joint effort with my co-travelers , photographers and dear friends Hibru Patel, Lalit Jain, Priti Bhatt and Shri Parikh. Special thanks to Ria Patel for her youthful exuberance and joie de vivre which made this trip even more special.
Our trip to Roda temples near Himmatnagar, Gujarat, had whetted our appetite for such more trips. Our last stop on that memorable day was Mahakali Mandir atop a tiny hill at Sabali. The view from the top was very pleasing to say the least.. One can see the shimmering waters of Guhai reservoir on one side of the hillock. We made a mental note of exploring it on some future date. Few of our group members decided to climb the steps to reach the temple. I regret not joining them after I heard their oohs and aahs! They could see farmland dotted with rock formations and tiny domes of far away temples. But what was most interesting and intriguing for them was the cluster of temples they could see almost down below the hillock. When we saw the photos, we made plans to visit the area again and explore them. Unfortunately the scorching heat stopped us from doing it immediately.
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| Photo by Lalit Jain. Bird's-eye view from the top |
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| Photo by Lalit Jain Interesting and intriguing cluster of temples |
Bouts of rain fall in June was heaven sent for us. Now our impatience to explore those temples needed to be assuaged. One balmy morning, we started our journey from Ahmedabad. Now road up to Sabali ,being familiar was easy to navigate and reach.
All our efforts to gather information about these temples proved to be useless. Not a word could be found on the net, at the moment our only source of information. The only nugget of information we could find was the image captured from Google earth shared below. It just provided the information that these temples belong to the Jain sect.
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