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saronic Zurich, Switzerland Reviewed January 4, 2019 a clean stepwell with annoying youngsters We came to this place not from the district capital Tonk, which is about 40km to the north, but from our heritage hotel near Deoli in the south. It took us about an hour on a very bad road past the artificial lake behind Bisalpur Dam to get here. The stepwell is about a kilometer away from the town center of Todaraisingh. One enters through an open iron gate with no guardian around and thus also no entrance fee. We had the place to ourselves, until some youngsters, who had seen us entering, came after us. For the remaining time they kept annoying us with begging, staring at my wife, talking loudly and then letting loud music blast from a transistor radio. My wife left and went back to the car, where our driver was waiting, while I kept visiting the stepwell. Unlike at the Abhaneri 'baori', which we had seen a few days earlier, here one could walk on the steps down to wat

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