The Umaid Mahal hotel

Jaipur

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December 13th 2009
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 i ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more