the indian desert: Photos 21 to 31

August 27, 2008

We arrived unscathed in Jaipur, but we didn’t leave in much the same state. We were envying our 30 hours on the train compared to Jaipur! We went to the old city- nicknamed the Pink City. It turned out to be more orange/brown than anything! I re-named Jaipur, India’s Dust Pan.

We were haggled from the moment we left the hotel! Non-stop asking the whole day “you want a rickshaw ma’am?” “You like bangles?” “Come, you look my shop. No buying, just looking.”

I think it was a combo of heat and dust that turned us cranky. We tried to cool off in a very fancy all vegetarian restaurant, LMB. There was an army of waiters that served me a great veggie burger!

Our next attempt at coolness was hopping into a bicycle rickshaw, and let our driver sweat it out! We paid him 20Rs (.50$) to drive us around for 1 hour, but pretty sure he faded out after 30 minutes! Poor guy!

All else was failing, and McD’s always seems to cheer us up! Sundaes for the both of us, and some internet. We got back to our hotel just

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