Jaipur
Travel Blogs from Jaipur, India
Jaipur
... drains wherever you go, it's rancid and when you come across a clean toilet you have to make the most of it. Arriving in Jaipur we headed to a hotel that we had called yesterday to reserve a suite. We'd decided that we needed some comforts and that we ...
The Pink City
... '. This was also the road which we saw the first and only accident yet! We stayed in a really lovely hotel called the 'Jaipur Inn' with a roof top restaurant with fantastic views of the mountains, the Amber Fort...and the smog. Our tour guide Chatrashal ...
Entry to Rajasthan
... from Antonia - probably because she did understand but possibly because she didn't want to prolong the agony... Anyhow, for all Jaipur's noise and terrible traffic, we had an excellent few days. This was largely because of the wonderful family with which ...
The capital of Rajasthan
Today we drove from Pushkar to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. This was a 250km drive.. We left at 7:30 in the morning to beat the heat.. It's so warm here, that even I sweat when having only flip flops on.. Weird.. After approx 2,5 hours drive we ...
photos of fatepuhr sikri
these are some photos from the trip between agra and jaipur. mostly of our visit to Fatepuhr ...
Beautiful Rajasthan
... ! It was great to watch the changing landscape as we went from buitl up Mumbai into the Rajasthani desert. Thursday and Friday in Jaipur was pretty rainy with it being Monsoon season, so we took the time to update our travel journals and took advantage of ...
Jaipur
... a family of 6 on basically nothing, but always had a smile. I got into his rickshaw just as it started pouring, the first rain of the season in Jaipur - which is in a 10 year drought - so he said it was a good omen how we found one ...
The Pink City
We drove from Agra to Jaipur and had dinner at Indiana, a wonderful restaurant with a dance and dinner show. We were the only ones there, so we got to dance with the performers while we ate a delicious dinner of Thali (set meal). ...
Trip to Varanasi!
... a few hours at each. After the tour, we walked around the city for a while before catching our evening train at 7pm. We arrived in Jaipur today (Monday) at aroudn 2pm. This is week 13 for me at Jaipur. I am hoping to work for 5 of the 6 remaining ...
Ville spirituelle, palais du Maharadja et tigre!
... ou de la mousse au chocolat). Il y a aussi pas mal de pelerins venus pour se trouver et qui se cherchent toujours... Jaipur ensuite, la ville rose, capitale du Rajasthan, et son magnifique palais, son fort, les cenotaphes des Maharadjas et le chaos de ...
Jaipur and the Road to Agra
Jaipur and the Road to Agra The taxi driver at the airport became my driver for the day on business, then a quick tour of Jaipur in the late afternoon, checked me into the hotel that one of my business hosts had suggested and then the next day was my ...
Shopping and Palaces
So writing this sometime after the event but we this was the first major shopping venture of the trip as Nicole had given us a boost in the department! Lots of shopping and some stunning palaces....including the City palace that had over 300 ...
Striking out on our own
... same scam and ended up on a houseboat in Kashmir, it sounded awful, there's a war on! Got a hotel quite easily in Jaipur. The rickshaw wallah's attack en masse as you leave the station, we just ploughed through and headed down the street until we found ...
Incredible India!
... my mom's regularity for the rest of the trip and started her permanent banana and curd diet!) it was time for bed. JAIPUR The next morning we took a train to Jaipur, a city in which every building in the Old Town was painted in the ...
Jaipur Day 2
... which means I'm really chewing on stuff up in my head. And Rebecca and Dev made plans for lunch of some little food place in Jaipur. I'm honestly not hungry at this point, so I told them do whatever they want. So he takes us to this little place on some ...
Week one!
... been! So much has happened in such a short time but I'll try to keep it as interesting as possible... I arrived in Jaipur last Saturday night, welcomed by a blast of 30 degree heat at 8pm! A nice surprise! The weather has constantly been ...
Day 41-44 : Jaipur
... a huge sundial which can tell the time to an accuracy of 2 seconds! I then went to the Hawa Mahal which gave decent views over Jaipur, followed by the City palace and a final rush to the Iswari Minar before it closed. I then decided to book a ticket at ...
Jaipur Day 2
... nbsp;a photographer on holiday for you! We were mithered yet again by the shopkeepers opposite (note: there is a theme here in Jaipur!) who this time were very keen that I view the impressive building from their first floor shop windows opposite, to get a ...
The Pink City
We caught a train to Jaipur from Agra on Sunday which took about 4hrs... well technically it took 8hrs because the 6am train was delayed until 10am.. ha ha I love early mornings..! But we had some luck though on the train. After an hour an Indian man got ...
A Hobbit's Tale by Wilbo Vaggins
... last two weekends should require a chore of recapping, but it needs to get done before the street-sweepers get to my head. Jaipur and Agra were a tourist trip from our weekly grind. Pocketed up in an air-conditioned bus, we were farted out into ...
Move to trainee house - "Orange House"
... bit later than in North America. By the way, we went to McDonald's yesterday. It's quite a popular restaurant for people in Jaipur. I had a Chicken McGrill burger, and it was pretty good (I think I tasted a hint of spiciness;) ... I was craving ...
Dancing Girls
... Anyway, since we were MEANT to be picked up at 12noon, in the morning we spent a couple of hours shopping in Jaipur. it was FANTASTIC. picked up some beautiful traditional Rajasthani pieces that I am looking forward to decorating my place with back ...
Jaipur India -- Of Princes and Paupers - Part 1
... advantage and a excellent cotton crop, India became one of the first societies to create vast wealth, civilizations and a ruling class. Jaipur in Northern India was the seat of a ruler of India from 700 - 1800 C.E. Here there are forts, palaces and ...
The Pink City
After some of our mammoth journeys, the journey to Jaipur was relatively quick and we were excited about seeing the 'Pink City'. The rickshaw driver who took us to our guest house said he would ...
Week update at Prayas - Nov 26th to 30th
... my blog). On Tuesday, I gave a tour of 2 of PRAYAS branches to a few people who were attending the AIESEC conference in Jaipur. They were quite impressed by the hands on work done by the organization, and had some very good comments to say about the ...
To Agra Tomorrow & Cambodia Makes the Cut
So this is just a real quick note, but we are leaving Jaipur tomorrow evening on a night bus for Agra (home to the Taj Mahal). We are planning on spending the day going around some of the sights here that we haven't seen. We leave Agra Monday ...
The Train and the city..
... only about 5' long so stretching out when sleeping is not so easy but we got there in the end if not a little cramped.. Jaipur is another city of chaos although nothing compared to Delhi. Its in Rajisthan which were traveling around for the next 2 ...

