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April 19, 2007
South of the Border Comes to India
Part of the shocking growth in Gurgaon, India is driven by a 28KM strip of sparkling expressway that starts at Km 14.3 in Delhi near Rao Tularam Marg and ends at Km 42.0 in Gurgaon, bisecting the city in the process. This is the first real expressway in India and it runs through India's only planned city, a bit like the Baltimore-DC highway running through an desi version of Columbia, MD. Real estate investors and local developers have built hotels and malls along this highway and drivers speed past cranes and construction equipment every day.
This is not to say that every developer seeks to build the most modern amenities in the best of taste. In at least one part of Gurgaon-- Sector 32-- some enterprising developers have decided to rebuild a miniature version of "South of the Border" the famously crappy hotel, restaurant and theme park jammed off of I-95 just south of the Border of North Carolina.
The Gurgaon version does not sit south of any particular border. Instead it is called th 32nd Milestone, since it is stationed both in Sector 32 and at mile 32 on the expressway.
Like its American counterpart, the 32nd Milestone has a hotel:
And a bungee jump near some batting cages:
And a restaurant-...with the best restaurant name ever.
Best of all, it has a killer pop art go kart track. If it were bigger, I would convince someone to re-film Talledega Nights here:
No...really. The go kart track- visible from the highway- is great:
Get on That Plane, fool | By jb | 07:16 AM
Comments
Sizzlin' Sizzler is awesome, as is that race track (really) but damn if that ain't one scary bungee jump contraption.
Posted by: Brittanie at April 19, 2007 08:01 AM