Local life

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Early morning walk around the grounds followed by a quick swim in the lovely pool before having breakfast on the terrace. We then walked into the local village to visit the children’s school, they were all getting ready to take their exams, the seating arrangements were very cleverly arranged, you never had 2 children the same age sitting together, you’d have a 5 year old sitting next to an 8 year old etc, reason for this was so they couldn’t copy off each other. We then went to a temple where they were in the middle of prayer, it was a krishner temple, everyone was so passionate about their prayers, it was quite moving to watch. We then walked for a while before getting a rickshaw back to the hotel (or should I say palace? Or beamish museum?) best thing about this morning was the area was non touristy and the locals were just going about their daily life’s as normal, it really was great to see.
After checking out of our PALACE we started the 4 hour journey to Jaipur stopping for lunch on the way, when we arrived we stopped at a fabric/carpet work shop & watched how rugs were made. Hotel again was lovely and Yusof our guide had arranged for us to have our palms read, I’ll just have to wait and see if anything he said comes true but on the bright side as I’m living till I’m well in my 90’s I’ve got plenty of time

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