Jaipur, India Travel Blogs

Pink Flu Anyone?
Jun 5, 2005 (9 photos)

... to be found wandering around the streets of the old city within the fortified walls as Jane puts it "just experiencing Jaipur itself". She was facinated by the colourful Rajput men in their traditionally vivid 'neon coloured' turbans coiled on their heads ...

Holy Cow.
Apr 21, 2005

... , and there was an endless parade of men up and down the aisle selling "Chai, Chai Masala", "Samosas", "Chapati"... We arrived in Jaipur on Monday at around noon- hot, tired, and cranky. We had read and been warned of the touts who would try to steer ...

The REAL India
Jan 22, 2007 (15 photos)

... & sink and a tub shower ARE a little bit of heaven on earth 8. Watching Star Wars: Return of the Jedi on TV while in Jaipur, India, is a must-do and should be mentioned as one of the top things to do in the next edition of the Lonely Planet (Brian, I ...

Whisky very Risky
Oct 11, 2005 (2 photos)

... at you go and get some friends to also come and and take a look. Is very amusing! Our biggest record yet is about 35 people all crowded round us just looking when we stopped to get a drink on our way to Jaipur. If I wasn't self conscious before I am now!

Incredible India
Sep 26, 2006 (15 photos)

... and for Melanie to take some vacation time after the meetings. In this way we got to see a bit of Delhi, Agra (Taj Mahal), and Jaipur. It's only a tiny piece of a very large, complex and interesting country, but we were glad to be able to spend at least a ...

Jaiur - The Pink City
Feb 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... loved the hustle and bustle, while me I was ready for something new. Our driver picked us up at 8am and we set off to Jaipur. A long 5 hour drive ahead of us. Our driver is a petite man with a broad warm friendly smile and a funny face. Ben is unsure ...

Pink Bits?
Jan 23, 2006 (47 photos)

... each! But I didn't think the complex was that great. The ticket , however, would allow us free entry into Jaigarh Fort tomorrow. Jaipur doesn't seem like such a bad place so far. Just big and busy and dirty, much like a lot of Indian cities. We hadn ...

Blue City, Holy City, Pink City
Dec 17, 2004 (22 photos)

... . Harmless, though annoying and hard to avoid. The Pink City In probably trying to keep up with the Maharaja of Jodhpur, Jaipur's Maharaja decided that all the houses in his city would be painted pink. The green eyed monster obviously got a hold ...

India - Jaipur
May 7, 2007 (39 photos)

... of convex mirrors inlaid into the walls and ceiling. Strangely the mirrors were actually imported from Italy!     One of Jaipur's emperors (okay we can't remember which one) had a real thing about astrology and the prediction of futures and ...

Jaipur, India - The pinky'ish city.....
Nov 28, 2008 (8 photos)

... 'll throw em!! " hehe We decided to follow the lonely planet's guide for lunch for a change and went and found Jaipur's best kept secret...a little restaurant called Ganesh. There's a reason it's the best kept secret... The place looked like it hadn't ...

Jai-pure headache and birth of the hard travellers
Nov 8, 2004 (1 photos)

... who will hopefully give me the most powerful bowel-srtrippers known to man to get that bug ooot! Its a bit weird being in Jaipur, its quite a culture shock. There are so many slimy young guys here here who really want to smooth talk you into a back ...

New Year Revelry?
Dec 31, 2004 (11 photos)

... for the 3 breed of Indian camel - sadly there were no really baby camels to keep G happy. We awoke the following morning in Jaipur having taken the overnight train from Bikaner. Awoke is a bit of an exaggeration as neither of us slept a wink and were ...

Delhi belly in Jaipur
Nov 9, 2005 (4 photos)

... camera but we told them we didn't have one. The photos of the Palace are great. All in all we weren't impressed by Jaipur with the highlight for Rick, his purchase of raspberry cough mixture. With our sleeper bus to Udaipur leaving at 9pm we headed to ...

Jaipur: the Elephant festival and Holi
Mar 16, 2004 (1 photos)

... After a few hours we passed a dry hill range, and we pulled into Jaipur, the capital of the state of Rajastan, India's largest state. JAIPUR I expected to be surrounded by hotel touts when I got off, but was left all alone, and after looking at the ...

Gimme a pizza
Dec 10, 2004 (3 photos)

... ; they still drive up the wrong side of the street & the fumes are still pretty bad but overall we really liked Jaipur. We especially liked the Old City. Surrounded by city walls painted pink (a colour of welcome) with loads of little alleyways & ...

The Pink City
Nov 2, 2004 (14 photos)

... of nothing, and therefore shouldn't have to divert my eyes from contact. Regardless, stares are a big part of visiting India, and Jaipur is no exception. Therefore, we did our best to ignore the blank stares and return them with smiles. In doing so our ...

The hundredth day and the Pink City
Feb 6, 2006 (3 photos)

... short and too long a time to have been doing this. Whatever the case, I'm definitely looking forward to having a break! I'm in Jaipur now, the last stop on my Rajasthani Roadtrip. Tomorrow, Anwar (my driver) is heading back to Delhi, and once again I'm ...

Mad Cows and Camels
Jan 9, 2004

... the streets in India were camels. Camels everywhere - pulling carts and relaxing in the shade under trees. We spent one night in Jaipur, today we just spent all day on the roof terrace of our hotel enjoying the sun (it's warm at last). Got scared by a ...

Delhi Belly in the Pink City
Feb 10, 2007 (15 photos)

... the lovely garden of the hotel to catch up on this travel diary - determined though to hit the shops this arvo as Jaipur is supposedly the best place in India to shop - and Im out of action!!!!. As I haven't eaten for 2 days I'm pretty safe to move around ...

Ashura, The Pink City, and Amber Fort
Jan 31, 2007 (16 photos)

After two months, India seemed like a vivid dream unfolding unceasingly. I arrived to Jaipur, walking to the Kantichandra Palace, as a procession of drummers and bearers of a silver taj. Sipping a chai, I asked the owner of a sweets shop what was ...

Gem scams and rickshaw wallahs
Nov 9, 2004

... my train? My heart was in my mouth. Was Jaipur to play one final, painful trick on me? First impressions On exiting Jaipur train station I was surrounded by a number of hotel touts, people who add absolutely no value to the existence of the prepared ...

Jaipur
Jan 25, 2005

... as we were walking away the original rickshaw driver desperately jumped out and offered 5R - jobs a good one! Enough of this - Jaipur, as a city its pretty unassuming, well it's got the world's largest sundial! - Picture to follow :o). It's probably the ...

Our entry into Rajhastan, world of Camels!!
Dec 4, 2004 (19 photos)

... of inspection of other shops. One includes a scene of all the three cities, Jaiselmer "Golden City", Jodphur "Blue City" and Jaipur "Pink City" and the other is of Elephants as that is what signifies India for me. We discovered a wonderful Black and ...

shoppers paradise but watch out for the camels
Feb 20, 2007

... what is to come as one does when the rollercoaster is ready to let fly down the track stretching below. Jaipur has been the most modern city in India that I have seen so far with its blend of Hindu and Muslim populations. Here everything is available if ...

Josteling Jaipur
Oct 2, 2005 (12 photos)

... Amber fort and Jaigarh fort for a day trip while clare had some peace and quiet!!! these impressive structures are north of jaipur and were well worth the visit... Jaipur is blessed with a crazy cinema...very over the top design and colour scheme, for ...

Jaipur - The Amber City
Feb 23, 2008 (14 photos)

... coincidence that I feel better today?  Today we visit the Amber Fort, Hawa Mahal (palace of winds) and the Jaipur Observatory.  The Amber Fort is cool but definitely not as cool as some of the other impressive compounds we have visited.& ...

Ho Hum.. Jaipur..
Oct 24, 2006 (14 photos)

... with leprosy. We moved on pretty quickly however as we didn't want to get hit by any flying arms or legs. All in all Jaipur really isn't worth visiting from our point of view. The state of the fort, palace and city in general is very very patchy ...

The food finally catches up to me in Jaipur
Feb 22, 2008 (2 photos)

... see a woman come in as we are on the way out.  She shows us how she block prints and then we are off.  On to Jaipur via one of the worst roads of all time, we show up just in time for me to hit the bed as I am feeling even worse than in the ...

Jaipur, The Pink City
Jan 15, 2004 (2 photos)

... getting a glimpse of it all. Even after seeing the "largest cannon in Asia" in one of the mountainous forts around Jaipur, the sight I was most impressed with was the Jantar Mantar Observatory. Built in the early 1700's it contains a large assortment of ...

North India
Dec 22, 2003 (23 photos)

After six months on the road, coming to India has been like a mini-homecoming. First of all, Sharad's parents met us in Bombay a day or two after we arrived, and stayed with us the entire three or four weeks we were in North India. It was great seeing ...