28 Dec - meet my room mate properly this morning, Lesley from San Fran who's about my age and also meet the rest of the group...although it's 5.15am, dark and we're en route to the railway station so struggling to remember all the names. There's 14 of us on this trip, mostly US and Canadian but also 3 Aussies and a Dutch couple. We take the train to Jaipur, which is pretty much on time...always a bonus for the Indian Railways. Jaipur is a great city, not quite as manic as Delhi or Calcutta and not as smoggy as Agra. It's definitely still typically Indian though with busy roads filled with cycles, motorbikes, rickshaws, tuk-tuks, lorries and buses interspersed with cows, goats, monkeys and dogs everywhere. Jaipur became known as the Pink City (although it's actually
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