The Shambles of Djachroum
The Shambles is the first thing new arrivals see when arriving from the space port. The Port Tunnel opens straight into basaars filled with stalls, barbecues, small tents and all kinds of merchants, crooks, and street children. On the adjacent houses sit chattering monkeys begging for food and under sun lamps Azuks lounge lazily. In the corner of the basaar, people gather daily to listen to the prophet Ndina's sermons.
From the basaar, alleys and stairs radiate up towards the rest of cave. The wide Sugar Boulevard meanders up to a beautiful building, Hahmat's Bridge Gallery. Here, everything imaginable is sold, from old Vulcan guns to the nomad's luxurious jet silk. Adjacent to the mall is Lotus Square on a ledge above the Shambles. If you walk across the square, you reach Hahmat's suspension bridge, offering a stunning view over the Shambles and all its commercial activity.
The Cave of the Hanging Bridges
The pounding heart of Djachroum is the huge cavern in the middle of the asteroid called the Cave of the Hanging Bridges. The sight that meets newly arrived wabas when they enter the cave for the first time is incomparable. The circular cave is several hundred meters wide and high and filled with an eclectic mix of old and newly built stone buildings, sheds, rickety ladders, winding stairs and - above all - a myriad of bridges and ramps that criss-cross the cave's expanse. It never gets quiet here, the cries of the merchants are mixed with calls from the Governor's Palace and the chirping and chattering of the Kuan dwarf monkeys, which swing high up in the cave from bridge to bridge in search of a snack or something shiny.
The cave is divided into three parts:
• the Shambles, which include the lower levels
• Bridge Town which includes the neighbourhoods clinging to the cave walls and connected by the many bridges that gave the cave its name, and
• highest up the Skylight or “Heavenly Light”
The pounding heart of Djachroum is the huge cavern in the middle of the asteroid called the Cave of the Hanging Bridges. The sight that meets newly arrived wabas when they enter the cave for the first time is incomparable. The circular cave is several hundred meters wide and high and filled with an eclectic mix of old and newly built stone buildings, sheds, rickety ladders, winding stairs and - above all - a myriad of bridges and ramps that criss-cross the cave's expanse. It never gets quiet here, the cries of the merchants are mixed with calls from the Governor's Palace and the chirping and chattering of the Kuan dwarf monkeys, which swing high up in the cave from bridge to bridge in search of a snack or something shiny.
The cave is divided into three parts:
• the Shambles, which include the lower levels
• Bridge Town which includes the neighbourhoods clinging to the cave walls and connected by the many bridges that gave the cave its name, and
• highest up the Skylight or “Heavenly Light”
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