What i saw

Just got back to my room from the whole sukkur trip. What a whirlwind day has it been.
The journey to sukkur was scenic to say the least. I never expected sindh to be this green and scenic. I always expected it to be a barren wasteland thats inhabited by nomads mostly. I think i was devastatingly wrong.
The whole journey was marked with beautiful things, most of which i was seeing for the first time. The first things i saw when we got out of daharki were gardens of date palms. They were tall, very tall and lots of them. And it was a sight worth seeing. I'm regretting not taking pictures. Then there were beautiful beautiful limestone ridges short of pannu akel.they were big, and white, like snow (obviously one'd know snow is not possible in 55 degrees celsius!).
All along the way, there were rice fields where women were busy sowing rice seeds. This wasn't an unfamiliar sight but still it was kind of beautiful, with people busy in their work in the middle of inundated fields. And then we reached sukkur.
Sukkur is one beautiful city if you ask me. It has history written all over it. Its a pity that the whole city was closed because of a strike (a man was robbed and killed yesterday all the businessmen called a strike, there were burnt tyres and broken windshield glasses of innocent looking "bystanding" vehicles). But still, i think i didn't miss the best thing in Sukkur. It was the metal bridge, i dont know what its called,i was overcome by its beauty. For some reason, giant structures seem beautiful to me. It was a huge huge bridge, over a river branch, which could be called a canal though i couldn't understand exactly what it was. The bridge was made of iron, a huge caricature of metal, with metal intertwined into a complex structure that gave the impression of giant knitwork. Obviously all that was for the strength of the bridge rather than beauty, but it looked awesome, like the london bridge, just inverse of that, or a sine wave in modulus. It was constructed by ayub khan. Following it was another bridge, smaller but similar. I was fascinated.
Anyways we decided we had to move on, as the city was closed, we'd be going to Koonj, to the new drilling site, where an exploration well is being drilled. We arrived there in a little time. I really wanted to see the rig doing its job and i wasn't disappointed.
A uet engineer, showed me around, and i was overawed by the rig. I love big powerful machines, and it was big, tall and powerful. And a very complex machine too, rather an assembly of machines. I loved it. And the idea that it was already 1293 metres below the surface made me like and respect it even more.
After the tour at the rig, we had a sumptuous lunch at the site. Inside containers. One thing i forgot to mention, they live eat and work in large modified containers. But dont let the outside fool you, the facilities are better than many in large cities. Anyways the food was good, awesome, we got into the car, accompanied by a police car (this area is very famous for car jackers and criminals, and the rig people were telling us never to come alone like we did today). Our passenger count had increased from 4 to 5, because some guy from the rig had to come back to daharki. Anyways, we had tea at a chhapar hotel on our way back, and made our way back. By that time, i really wanted to go back to my room!

P.S.: my companions were constantly talking in sindhi on both sides of the journey. I'm still irritated. I mean its general manners not to do that.
P.P.S.: i was sleeping most of the time on the way back
P.P.P.S: i've so much more to tell, but that can wait