Blogs from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia - page 10

We arrived in Jaipur late in the evening and checked into the four star hotel we had booked for 2 days as a wee treat. It did not disappoint. We had a huge room, a HOT shower, a kettle with teabags in our room, a swimming pool, a lift, people holding doors open for us and free buffet breakfast with live music. On our first full day we went to visit the historical tourist attractions Jaipur has to offer. The first stop was the city palace, which is still home to the Maharaja (King) of the City. The Raj still had influence during British rule but this was significantly reduced after independence until the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, reduced the Raj to a tourist attraction in 1971 The once powerful house still has considerable wealth which ... read more

The next few destinations in India were all in the state of Rajasthan, both me and Laila had them on our to do (Fortunately my do to list was rather unstructured/ not organised at all) and she was kind enough to let me accompany her. Rajasthan itself had a different feel to both Delhi and Agra, many people seemed friendlier and despite still being a highly populated area wasn't quite as busy as Agra and certainly not as hectic as Delhi. The guest house was a big improvement on the last in both cleanliness and size and the room had much more attractive décor. Initially the concept of natural light entering the room seemed like a bonus but with windows comes noise and India isn't the most serene place in the world. Jaipur (the pink city, ... read more

I wish I could say I woke up refreshed, unfortunately I woke up groggy, Just before 3am. Despite wearing ear plugs, Molly Browns snoring thundered around the room. After about half an hour and no sign of letting up, I got up and gently tapped her back. 'Pearl, I'm really sorry but your snoring is so loud' I said. I'm on my side she replied. Don't you have earplugs? I told her that yes I did have earplugs and I was wearing them, but could still hear her snoring as it is really loud. I got back into bed and after about half an hour, slowly started to drift back to sleep when ZZZZZZZZZ the snoring started again. I put my iPod on thinking a bit of low music may drown it out, but about 3 ... read more

HE SAID... We were travelling west from Fort Madhogarh to Jaipur, and we didn’t want to leave. We were woken early at 5.45am to the blasting sound of music from the village below. We’d watched a wedding procession through the village the day before, in which women were dancing from house to house behind an old land rover with a massive sound system on board. We thought the music was related to the wedding celebrations, but we later discovered that it was a very modern and hip call to prayer! We sat down to breakfast at 8am, and we were freezing cold. The morning mist that was blanketing the village was sweeping over the open dining area, and we had pulled on every piece of warm clothing that we could muster. I had cornflakes with hot ... read more

Geo: 26.9184, 75.806Do Jaipuru dorážíme po rozbřesku. Vystupujeme na poměrně rušné ulici, kde nás vyhazují s tím, že jsme na nádraží. Hned se na nás vrhají tuktukáři. Vzhledem k tomu, že je náš hotel asi 1,5km daleko a nechce se nám úplně běhat po městě s batohy, smlouváme cenu na směšných 20 rp. A vyrážíme. Jen co se usazuji, koukám na GPS na průběh trasy a zjišťuju, že jedem na opačnou stranu. Ptám se jestli ví kam jede a on že jo. Stále nám však panáček směřuje na opačnou stranu a tak zvyšuji hlas ať to buď otočí nebo zastaví. Chudák se začal mlátit do hlavy, že to popletl ... read more