Bit of a break in the heat. Rooms much more liveable. Still the busy road, but that's only noise. The absence of fumes and heat (presumably a change in wind with the weather) makes much more of a difference. The cost is much higher than what the locals pay in rent, but absent the caravanserai mentality, there would be no market whatsoever, an nowhere to travel to. The caravan continues.
The fundamentals are good -- wood floors, open space, double-glazed windows, but the clothesline is an old synthetic yarn that leaves tiny splinters in the clothing, the air conditioner was literally packed with dry and oily dirt (a half inch on the filter), and there were other electrical/plumbing things. In addition, there wasn't an open laundry room, so it's been a few weeks of hand-washing. It's being run as an inexpensive rental, so this apparently the mentality of an inexpensive rental in this part of the world. Which is odd. There's no reason that it couldn't be run shipshape without doubling the rent, but that's apparently the distinction. Hopefully, the month of exhaust fumes from the road won't cause any lingering cloudiness.
Oddly, I came here from the Jedi Council city, which had its own difficulties at times (Yoda's swamp, perhaps), and just before I left, I was watching Tarkovski's Solaris one night after dinner, and was struck by the soundtrack on the driving scene after the rural home at the beginning. Listening only to the sound, I was struck by how nightmarish it was. Just the constant rush of traffic, but...