After negotiating our way out of Delhi we were headed along more potholly toll roads, dodeging the goats, cows and gunho drivers on the way to Jaipur.
We arrived into our lovely hostel late in the afternoon and we decided to make the most of the daylight. After managing 4 people in a tuktuk for a longer distance, we figured 5 in a slightly larger one would be ok. This basically meant that Gill was balancing on the bar on the side, so her rear was hanging over the side. After having her bum slapped by 3 boys and having a few close shaves with other tuktuks, we made it into the walls of the pink city, though it definitely looked more orange!
We had a little wander round and watched the sun set before going onwards to find dinner!
The next day we went on another tuktuk tour (we hadn't learnt our lesson from Delhi...) and we went to some really cool places! We visited the amber fort first where we saw elephants, underground tunnels and even got to play traditional drums!
Then we went off to the 'Elephant Island' which basically is where the elephants live when they aren't hauling tourists up and down the stone walkway to the top of the fort. It was interesting to see but the trainers were unnecessarily harsh with them, hitting them with sticks and poking them with metal spikes. We didn't like that so we left.
And went to the water palace - only for a quick photo stop as you can't get into it!
Then we headed into the city. We went to a place called Janter Manter which is a place where a random king liked astrology and built lots of instruments to stare at the sun and stars with. It was interesting though and had the world's largest sundial! We managed to have a 'discussion' with our guide as the instruments that said the precise time using sunlight were in fact 27 minutes out. He claimed that due to where we were on earth, you had to add or take away a certain amount of minutes depending on the curvature of the earth and angle the light hits and something boring like that. So we came to the conclusion that it was perfect if you take the time it says and add 27 minutes...
Then we went to a 'wind temple' and after a few farting jokes, we wandered through the many rooms!
The highlight was the monkey temple though. This was less of a monkey temple, rather a hill climb up with loads of monkeys and a little temple on the top with no monkeys at all. It does however have a monkey ghost. When we got there, we had to take our shoes off and put them in a closed cupboard. One of the people we went with had one flip flop mysteriously disappear, supposedly from a monkey (although no one saw one up there the whole time we were there!), and then miraculously reappear after we kicked up a bit of a fuss. When the Indians asked for a tip for finding it again, we quickly left with all of our money. The swines! Anyway, some cool photos!
The Taj is next!
We arrived into our lovely hostel late in the afternoon and we decided to make the most of the daylight. After managing 4 people in a tuktuk for a longer distance, we figured 5 in a slightly larger one would be ok. This basically meant that Gill was balancing on the bar on the side, so her rear was hanging over the side. After having her bum slapped by 3 boys and having a few close shaves with other tuktuks, we made it into the walls of the pink city, though it definitely looked more orange!
We had a little wander round and watched the sun set before going onwards to find dinner!
The next day we went on another tuktuk tour (we hadn't learnt our lesson from Delhi...) and we went to some really cool places! We visited the amber fort first where we saw elephants, underground tunnels and even got to play traditional drums!
Then we went off to the 'Elephant Island' which basically is where the elephants live when they aren't hauling tourists up and down the stone walkway to the top of the fort. It was interesting to see but the trainers were unnecessarily harsh with them, hitting them with sticks and poking them with metal spikes. We didn't like that so we left.
And went to the water palace - only for a quick photo stop as you can't get into it!
Then we headed into the city. We went to a place called Janter Manter which is a place where a random king liked astrology and built lots of instruments to stare at the sun and stars with. It was interesting though and had the world's largest sundial! We managed to have a 'discussion' with our guide as the instruments that said the precise time using sunlight were in fact 27 minutes out. He claimed that due to where we were on earth, you had to add or take away a certain amount of minutes depending on the curvature of the earth and angle the light hits and something boring like that. So we came to the conclusion that it was perfect if you take the time it says and add 27 minutes...
Then we went to a 'wind temple' and after a few farting jokes, we wandered through the many rooms!
The highlight was the monkey temple though. This was less of a monkey temple, rather a hill climb up with loads of monkeys and a little temple on the top with no monkeys at all. It does however have a monkey ghost. When we got there, we had to take our shoes off and put them in a closed cupboard. One of the people we went with had one flip flop mysteriously disappear, supposedly from a monkey (although no one saw one up there the whole time we were there!), and then miraculously reappear after we kicked up a bit of a fuss. When the Indians asked for a tip for finding it again, we quickly left with all of our money. The swines! Anyway, some cool photos!
The Taj is next!
Love the monkey photos!
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