Museums & Forts

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Geo: 26.8616, 75.6958

Bit of a sleep in today, depart 9am to see the sights of Jaipur.

Photo stop at The Palace of Winds on the way to City Palace Museum and Royal Observatory. Very interesting at museum, military guns & swords, textiles & royal clothing, horse carriages etc. Found the observatory incredible, how they worked out these sundials & astrological dials 450 years ago is amazing.Then to lunch at local hotel, just sandwiches & tea.

After lunch stopped at River Palace on way to Amber Fort. Took a bone jarring ride by Jeep to top of hill where the Amber Fort sits. Ran the guantlet past the pesky hawkers. Again an amazing place, huge size with Summer & Winter palaces plus special residences for his 12 wives.On the surrounding mountains are more forts with walls along the mountain ridge tops.

Past the hawkers and back down the hill by Jeeps to our bus.Back to hotel by 5pm, dinner and early to bed. Up early tomorrow, departing at 7.30am for desert city of Bikaner.

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