Day5-Shilparamam and lots of shopping
On the day that followed we visited one of my dad's college mates who worked in a hospital in the city.After spending time with her in her O.P room we left for Shilparamam craft village near the hi-tech city. The place had a village museum with statues of village bazaars, craftsmen, blacksmiths,carpenters and others you could get a glimpse of in a village in India.There was bullock cart riding,there "had been" boating trips from what I've understood from the guide maps because now there seems to be hardly enough water to boat!There were also innumerable shops selling clothes,artefacts,bags,accessories,footwear and toys at cheap prices that an average Malayali cannot believe.We had planned to visit General bazaar so as to buy stuff for our family and friends but finally ended up buying everything from Shilparamam.
But it seems that we've developed this very strange attitude of bargaining by leaps and bounds to such poor people who sell embroidered and handcrafted goods at cheap rates and blindly believe whatever bad quality stuff that a company or a brand offers you.Well.in the village we had bought an embroidered handbag for 250 rupees which was worth much more.But we made it 200 after finding that our efforts to make it 150 proved futile.At the same time during our return flight in IndiGo we bought a compact pouch which contained a bag(although we didn't check for the bag) at 700 rupees.It was only after we reached home that we opened the pouch and saw the bag.Bad quality cloth,pure black,no designs,very small,you can hardly put any stuff,worth a little over 100.But how we blindly bought it without bargaining by any small margin and how we stood raw for them to easily cheat us!
We also visited Snow world,my Mom and I.That was real fun.They gave us jackets. gloves,socks and boots to keep ourselves warm at a temperature of minus 1 degree Celsius.My first hand experience in snow.I knew it was freezing cold outwards only after my hands went numb after touching snow flakes.It was kind of amazing.How they maintained such a low temperature, when the moment you get out of the building, it was a burning 35 degree.
But it seems that we've developed this very strange attitude of bargaining by leaps and bounds to such poor people who sell embroidered and handcrafted goods at cheap rates and blindly believe whatever bad quality stuff that a company or a brand offers you.Well.in the village we had bought an embroidered handbag for 250 rupees which was worth much more.But we made it 200 after finding that our efforts to make it 150 proved futile.At the same time during our return flight in IndiGo we bought a compact pouch which contained a bag(although we didn't check for the bag) at 700 rupees.It was only after we reached home that we opened the pouch and saw the bag.Bad quality cloth,pure black,no designs,very small,you can hardly put any stuff,worth a little over 100.But how we blindly bought it without bargaining by any small margin and how we stood raw for them to easily cheat us!
We also visited Snow world,my Mom and I.That was real fun.They gave us jackets. gloves,socks and boots to keep ourselves warm at a temperature of minus 1 degree Celsius.My first hand experience in snow.I knew it was freezing cold outwards only after my hands went numb after touching snow flakes.It was kind of amazing.How they maintained such a low temperature, when the moment you get out of the building, it was a burning 35 degree.
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