The story
Everyone sees Saif-ul-Muluk at midday. Almost nobody sees it at first or last light, when Malika Parbat turns and the water goes completely still. Rawaan times the jeep so you are there for the good hour — and hears the legend of the prince and the fairy princess at the lake it belongs to.
What it feels like
Glass-flat water, a mountain going gold, and hardly another person there.
