The desert grasslands of Gujarat in India may be remote, but the Halepotra tribe make the long journey worthwhile. Tom Parker in The Guardian:
‘This is it, it’s probably not what you expected,” Shakur said with a wry smile as he stopped his battered 1965 Fiat 2300 beside a collection of five bhungas – traditional cylindrical mud huts with white walls and grass-topped roofs.
Shaam-e-Sarhad looked like all the other tribal settlements we’d passed en route, though its surprisingly large huts had a few welcome extras such as a ceiling fan and a separate outdoor bathroom.
We were in one of the most remote parts of India, in Kutch’s desert grasslands in the state of Gujarat, with the Pakistan border and the edge of the vast salt plain known as the Great Rann of Kutch just 15km to the north – hence the resort’s name, which means “Sunset at the Border”.
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