Jaipur and Agra

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A restfull night we had on the train to Jaipur from Jaisalmer. Jaipur is also a very crowded city. We were expecting the Pink City area calm but it wasn't. We took a fuul day tour from the tourist office at the railway station. Although the price of the tour was very cheap, many extras made the bill high. 180 inR for the museum, 10 inR for observatory area, few other entrances and the lunch we paid 255inR for two. Nice places we have visited but we were expecting to see them more clean and painted clean. The history of Jaipur is not older than 500 years. Unfortunately we didn't find what we dreamed for this city.
In the afternoon we left for Agra by train. Agra is also a very rush city with its crowds. The hotel we had reseved from Jaipur was not the one we wanted. The second night in Agra we moved to a reasonable and cheaper hotel. on 8th Feb. today we hired a full day rickshaw and visited Agra Fort, Baby Taj, Mehtab Bagh, Taj Mahal and at the end ofcourse forced shopping, where we bought a hand worked marble peace with coloured flowers.
Agra is famous with Taj Mahal (a royal lady tomb). Visiters were over crowded, entrance relatively expensive and no electronics including mobile phones were not allowded in. You have to take your shoes at the second entrance. The most important thing is on Fridays Taj Mahal is open for Muslim population to pray, therefore it is closed for visitors. We missed the visit of Taj Mahal we had 33 years ago.
We are going to live tomorrow in the morning for Khajuraho and we will come back on 12th Feb. to Agra and the same night we will depar for Varanasi.

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Photos

Hawa Mahal
Pink City, Jaipur

A temple
Jaipur

Pink City
Jaipur

Palace on the lake
Jaipur

poor elephants
away from their habitats

monkeys
they are also hungry

we are together
in Pink City

rickshaw
by man power

Agra Fort
green field

Taj Mahal
from Agra Fort

the fine art
on the out walls of Taj Mahal

first entrance
Taj Mahal

Comments

[YASEMEN]

dream
dears, it must be very lovely living yr dreams .. i am following u day by day :)

[jill gregory]

how wonderful
Hi gunay and cengiz - enjoying following your trip, it all looks so fascinating - thinking of you both, take care, - love Jill xx