Jaipur

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Jaipur Today we are in the pink, as Jaipur is known. It's the capital of Rajastan and where most tourists do the Rajastan triangle.


The hotel looks like a set from a Bollywood epic, over the top with kitschy heritage about it. What a contrast with the Delhi one, even loo paper here ! I'll spare any other details.



Unlike Delhi Jaipur is overtly touristy, but still life as it exists in the raw is plain to see. A modern feel to the place, even if the cows appears on the pavements doing some window shopping.


The local maharajah and his ancestors are revered it seems, like a mini royal family. His palaces are ancient big and huge, like to The Amber Palace outside the city.

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Photos

Palace in the lake
Not the result of local flooding but a cunning plot to keep invaders out.

Silly visitors
Visitors brighten up an otherwise drab area of the Amber Fort.

Gladys waters the glads
The hard work is done by the ladies.

The Umaid Mahal hotel
Our understated hotel. The inside is just as drab.

Amber Fort
A truly enormous fort swamping an even bigger ruined palace on the hilltop beyond.

More hard work
Only women seem to do the hard work. Otherwise they are no-where, not in the overstaffed hotels (not one), or shops or museums etc....almost invisible.

A shop in Jaipur
What with its new rebranding what can possibly go wrong with this computer shop?

Going for walkies
Not to be outdone by the West's passion for mechanical hamsters, the Indian version from 'Elephants R Us' is bound to make it big.

Daisy
Indecision, indecision, which shop will I head for now?

Man on a mission
Taking his cue from visiting hippies, a local dresses up in what he assumes is the latest in western fashion.