Ashok Jaipur
Jaisingh Circle Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302016, India
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Jaipur
Jaipur Called the Pink City we have been looking forward to this day. Ismail and Ahmed picked us up from the Ashok hotel and we squeezed in the back of the auto rickshaw. (They swore they were not Moslem but I think they were cautious about this because of western images of Moslem). Cost for the day was 300R (about $AUS10). Ismail spoke excellent …
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... at the bar next door last night.
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Rain, rain go away!
... once and reached a 40km distance. Then we drove past the Hawa mahal which was a crown shaped building which is full of windows from floor to the top with various coloured windows. Gorgeous. The heavens opened and so we popped Rotherham Albert Hall but Lauren and I didn't really appreciate the vases and guns! But it pasted time I suppose. When I say it rained it didn't stop. The roads are full of pot holes ...



