Well, we got up at the horrible hour of 5am and stumbled out of our hotel in order to catch a taxi to Ajmer, and from there catch a local bus to Jaipur. The taxi driver, in an ambassador (of course, what else in India?), certainly got our blood flowing early in the morning, overtaking buses on the right as he climbed the mountain and as the road turned. The bus was not the crowded Indian bus I had expected, but I'm sure the early hour had something to do with that. Having found a hotel after our arrival in Jaipur, we set off in search of breakfast, looking specifically for pancakes, of course not thinking to check the hotel. We didn't find anywhere, but instead found a coffee house. It was so run down (paint
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