City Palace Interior

Rajasthani Ramble 3 – Jaipur

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April 30th 2013
We arrived in Jaipur early in the morning again, and were planning to stay the day, but hadn’t fully read our guidebook, including the section “Near or Around Jaipur”. Thankfully we noticed it later and realized there was a lot to see here. We did, however, break Tony’s Rule Number 1 for travel: find a place to stay first before you do anything else. This omission had some repercussions la ... 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