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Day 9: Elephants and Carpets
Our first day with a tour guide and `call me Vance´ was the image of modern India - jeans, cowboy boots, slicked hair and an earring or two. Cameron christened him `our guide-friend´ and he did a grand job. His first trick was to get our driver, Mohan, to overtake all the tour buses on the drive to join the queue for elephants at the Amber Fort - …
Day 10: More elephants
Cameron has been asking to take a `three-wheeler´ as he calls them, ever since we arrived in India so we started walking towards town in the hope of picking one up. Here´s a tip, if you´re in India and want to be stared at by everyone from beggars to businessmen, try being a mixed race Western family taking a walk alongside a busy road. Head …
Day 8: Udaipur to Jaipur
It is a cliché to say the first week has flown, but we really have had such a great time that we are all sad to say goodbye to Devra, Jyoti and the staff and of course mostly to Victoria who is off on her three month retreat. We clearly hadn't explained to Cameron what was happening with sufficient clarity and he was really grumpy that we were …
Rajesh opens up
... gory detail. Then, he confesses the food was terrible for him. We are not appropriate judges, but when an Indian says the food sucks, hmmmm Then he tells us they only provided hot water (in bucket form) to the tourists. The driver got a bucket of freezing water in an outside space. Now we don't feel so bad about our experience. We will tip him ...
Amber Fort, Elephants, and More
... is getting hungry so we go back to the hotel. It is now about 1:30 and we are going on our own private tour to "Elephantastic". I found it on line. We will do what we did in Thailand, which is feed, bathe, and ride the elephants. Pravin has arranged a driver for us, and the others will go on to do other things while we are with the elephants. We will meet up with the rest of the group later at the bazaar. We do not have time to eat as we are being picked up at ...