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in the south-western direction, is one of the other sides of Mount Abu, from which one obtains a sight of the sun setting beyond the distant plains ( which latter have rather sparse vegetation), with a small usually dried river winding its weary-course, a few small villages, and metal roads and foot-paths leading to them. The setting sun, with its fading lustre behind the fleeting clouds in the horizon, fills the sky with various colours of the rainbow, and the Ābu hills with their natural surroundings and the plains below are filled with a certain spiritual calm which a visitor silently watching the sunset does not like to disturb. A peculiar gloom pervades the atmosphere as the sun sets, enhanced by fields ( below) becoming barren due to the sands blown for centuries from the deserts to their north-west, The age-old Mount of Ābu, like an old Indian Yogi sitting in deep meditation, undisturbed from the rise and fall of nations and cultures, of empires and individuals, from several milleniums past, by its sheer silence, laughs at our little vanities of life, piercing even the most gaily attired blonde ( returning from the sunset-point) with a shrill cold breeze, and leaving a deep-set gloom stamped on her face ! (49) Palanpur Point.
A small foot-path from the Sirohi Kothi leads one to a small hill from whose top one can see the town of Palappur ( about 32 miles from Abu). This Pālampur point is at a distance of about 3 miles from the Rajputānā Hotel.
At a distance of about a furlong from the road from Delvādā to Ābu-camp starts another new road which goes like a loop and joins the main road after about a mile and a quarter's walk. On the road from Delvādā to the CampBazar are situated the different bungalows and residential quarters etc., of people living in the Camp-area.
