Welcome to      
GOPAL
 

 
Tour guide :

Jo zette and Jocko by Herge,
Metuhen (UK)
Little Brown (US)
publishers.

The valley
of the cobras.

              

An avenue of Rankot.
 

 

 


LOCATION:Independant kingdom of north India.
CAPITAL: Rankot
The modernizing undertaken by par the Maharaja is obstructed by country superstitions and the law of brigands gangs.

 

 
The Maharaja's legendary smile.
I am Badhala, the Maharaja's servant. Hush! My master is not childlike nor irascible. I don't advise you to insinuate it. That would do 100 strokes of stick.

Famous cobras of the Valley of the cobras
What? You don't like snakes? You'd like to meet a more sympathic fauna?
SYMPATHIC FAUNA
Or is it the sunshine wich disturb you? You think that a mountains land should be snowy and misty? We 've got that.
MIST
You'd rather like to get back to the airport?
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