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Jaipur Slideshow
Jaipur
Travel Blogs from Jaipur, India
Center for microFinance
Jai Pal Singh Executive Director Centre for MicroFinance Jai was kind enough to be my overall coordinator during my visits in Jaipur and also selected for me the most pleasant hotel that I have stayed in during my trip. The Centre is working ...
Jaipur- "Holi", India's colorful spring festival
... hanging out. I really had a wonderful "Holi". I apologize that I didn't label the photos with the people's names--I want to wrap up the India travelogue quickly, sorry! But they did make Holi great! A fabulously fun group of people from several ...
Life in Jaipur :)
... OUTSIDE OF WORK - Wedding, Accidents, Funerals and Daggers This next section is just some things that I've experienced or seen within Jaipur over the last couple of weeks... The girls in our house have been invited to an engagement of a friend of a ...
Jaipur and the Pink City
Our second train trip from Agra to Jaipur was quite an experience. We'd booked a first class berth but the service was more 5th class. We got on at Agra Cant - one of the Agra stations but there was no one to show us where to go and what to do and so we ...
Something, Something
... year to ensure they know what they're talking about, and it shows. We're now taking a few days to relax in Jaipur and recover from our many infirmities. We've found a great room with crisp sheets, endless hot water, an incredible restaurant, ...
A verdadeira India
... ou dentro de carros, riquixas, de bicicleta ou 'a pe: transformam cada rua num pesadelo crescente, que suplanta e destroi a India das paisagens e monumentos. No fog de Delhi, ou qualquer outra cidade, milhoes correm fantasmagoricamente atras de alguma ...
Some learnings from India so far ... (Sept 10)
... . That's about all for now ... I should be moving to the trainee house tonight, and will start working tomorrow ... Went to the AIESEC (Jaipur) offices today, and met a few other AIESEC members today. Stay tuned for more updates ... ...
a start
... ? The dirt? The cockroach infestatiopn in my room...? The peace of the Galta temples...? A sunset across Jaipur...? I wish I could elaborate more on feeding the monkeys, the one who poked his head through my hotel door and ...
Leaving Jaipur
V: Coming to the end of our stay in Jaipur and our time with I-India we realized that we had not yet seen the sound and light show at the amber fort. This is a must see experience so we were keen to catch it before we left…. Like most things in ...
Voluntary Work Part 2
... songs and got busy on the dance floor!! ASH: During our stay in Jaipur, a huge fire broke out at a refinery on the outskirts of Jaipur. That morning we were waiting for our driver to pick us up, he didn’t turn up…we were told that the ...
Voluntary Work - Part 3
... that they invited us to join their newly established advisory board, as well as discussing options of setting up a UK arm of the charity. This seemed like a great opportunity to continue our involvement with I-India and we accepted their invitation ...
Touring Rajasthan in an Ambassador
Hello from the region of Rajasthan, India! The food is great, hope you are too! Two and a half weeks into India travel, and Ernie is reminding me to keep this short. Argh. Landing in Delhi at 3am wasn't as bad. None of our ...
First week in India ... an update re internship
... . It's very interesting to hear about their experiences, and each individual has a different take on their internship and experience in India. It varies from it being a fantastic experience to a disappointing one. I think it's fair to say that India ...
Day 6: Daring day trip
... . Reminded me of that movie Indian where Kamal is giving fake warrant of fitness to trucks and buses. After 5 hours we reached Jaipur. And the first thing I noticed were malls. Jaipur had more malls then Delhi and Agra put together. But I am still to ...
Our 15 Minutes
... head so this took me by surprise. One last thing to mention for about Jaipur was the earthquake. Apparently at 4AM there was a magnitude 3.7 earthquake centered in Jaipur. It didn't cause any damage, and we were exhausted in slept right through ...
Jaipur
... fee (very unusual, you normally end up at their uncles/brothers place). He then offered to take us on a rickshaw tour of Jaipur for a very reasonable price. By this time we were most suspicious, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and booked ...
change of hotels and sad goodbye to Mr. K.
... was really nice and very cheap. We had been told by the receptionist at our previous hotel that there were no rooms in Jaipur. A tourist told us this too. They didn't know Mr. Kumar. After this we went and purchased bus tickets so we ...
Jaipur, The Rajasthan Capital
... so often. Other than this, our stay was very pleasant. ************************************************************************************************ Getting to know Jaipur... After breakfast, Sanjeev drove us to the 'Pink City', so called ...
In the pink city
... of having tens of Indians thrusting you aside as they swing themselves through the open door of the still moving carriage... We prefer Jaipur to Mumbai...everything is pink and we've been to palaces and the temple of the Sungod on a hill which made ...
Jaipur
... était à l'intérieur des murs. Les portes étaient fermées au coucher du soleil et réouvertes à l'aube. La ville de Jaipur est construite sous la forme d'un 9e de Mandala appelé 'Pithapada'. Neuf signifie les neuf planètes de l'ancien zodiaque ...
Trip to Agra (Taj Mahal) and Update Re PRAYAS
... a very beuatiful courtyard and interesting history. You can imagine I took a lot of pictures at both locations. We arrived back at Jaipur at around 9pm on Sunday, quite exhausted with all the travelling, and the very bumpy bus ride - there were at ...
The Pink City
... . They really don’t understand no for an answer! This is enough to put even the most determined shopper off shopping in Jaipur. Exhausted we decide its time for a drink and spot a rooftop bar near our hotel. It’s New Years Eve and the ...
Emotional Rollercoaster
... . It was really bizarre and I still don't know what to make of it...An amazing memory. The men were proving to be difficult in Jaipur as well, extremely lechy and at the end of a fraught day, when I was actually feeling quite ill it all got to be very ...
Day 5 - Jaipur
The train from Agra to Jaipur was quite eventful, with a family of about 20 Indians pretty much just having a party for 5 hours!! We kept ourselves entertained by pulling faces and throwing paper planes with the kids onboard. Arriving in Jaipur at 11, ...
The Amazing Race - Rajasthan Version
... to leave their private masseur! After a crazy few hours trying to find the bus, we took a 6 hour trip, south to Jaipur. The bus seemed to take forever because the highways are so congested with scary mile high stuffed trucks, overfilled buses, ...
Day 1: Jaipur sightseeing
We left for Jaipur from Bangalore International airport by a Spicejet Flight SG344. It takes about 4 hours to reach Jaipur. You will get a nice aerial view of the Jaipur city from the aircraft window if you are seated towards the left. You can also take ...
Who needs the Quickie Mart? (I do!)
... 8:45), and a great stroll around the untouristed palace and fort. Pictures are a must see for here. After Bundi, we arrived in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, from where I write you from now. Apparently, rumour has it that most of the nations tourism ...