Having a break from the heat this afternoon in Jaipur, the mercury is rising and looks like no sign of respite. However, only two days left of our tour of Rajasthan and we are hoping that Rishikesh (further north, at the start of the Ganges in the mountains) will be a bit cooler, calmer and hopefully we can swim.
I do have to add here that we did only just find out that the place we are training into on our way to Rishikesh is the site of a MAJOR festival - as in it only happens every 12 years and the area has an influx of some 12 million extra pilgrims over the month of March - stay tuned on how we cope with that one!
After leaving the lake city of Udaipur we spent a quiet night in a little town called Bundi, a little more off the tourist trail which made for a nice change. The tour of the fort/palace was made more interesting by the challenge of having to dodge the hundreds of monkeys that i think see the tourists as sport.
Arrived Jaipur yesterday and have been pleasantly surprised for a big Indian city how much cleaner, organised and liveable it is. One constant for all Indian cities is the traffic - we like to confuse the rickshaw drivers/taxis by walking, one man followed us for ten minutes on our way home from dinner, constantly repeating the word 'come'. Not too sure he brought Colin's excuse about rickshaw motion sickness for our reason for walking.
Tour of Amber fort, observatory, water palace and wind palace - nothing understated about this lot! (see pics)
Time for ice cream
GGTTFN xxxxx
Great pictures Guys seems so nice and serene yeah right
ReplyDeleteHow did you do the monkeys Anna not so bad as chooks and birds I hope
Great buildings it must be awesome
Hope it gets a bit cooler for you
Wow, cool to see you've managed to get some pictures up. It looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteThat last one looks like something out of the second Indiana Jones film. If it's called Pankot Palace, avoid dessert (chilled monkey brains).
Cracking pics, the architecture looks stunning! I'm impressed that you managed to get one of those passing monkeys to take your photo. It's amazing how quickly primates learn by watching normal human behaviour, I mean look at Colin, even he can use a camera now ,although still hasn't fathomed how they roll up all that film into a memory card!
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy the festival when you hit Rishikesh.
Try to learn some different colloquial words for Diarrhoea, to shout at passing rickshaw drivers. When they harrass you just clench, walk with small steps, and keep repeating Diarrhoea, Diarrhoea. On second thoughts, carefull what you wish for!!
Glad all is going well. Hope it was a little cooler and you found a bit of peace and quiet in amongst all the festival celebrators. Think you will have moved on today, hope the flight went well. Have had outlaw weekend - very pleasant - and went to Ferrymead today, v quiet. Peter about to start work on the outside of Jim's house tomorrow, unfortunately Jim unable to help as he will be working! Take care you two and congratulations on your 2nd WA. Love Mum/Julia
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