A known N devil is better than an unknown angel,” my friend had said, grimacing at the giant spiderweb in the bathroom of the PWD guesthouse at Rekong Peo. Tired and sunburnt, we were on our way back to Delhi after a 16-day trip in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. A massive spiderweb, and a defunct flush made us reconsider our glee at having managed to convince the caretaker to let us spend the night here instead of in one of the hotels.

The Mysore Government House was constructed in 1850