Park Prime Hotel Jaipur

... a rocky mountain and is enormous with numerous courtyards and meeting palaces inside. The colours of the frescoes painted onto the ancient plastered walls were amazing as was the mosaic mirrored palace that was covered in this gorgeous reflective glass. <br><br>On the way back into the city we stopped off at dusk to see Galta which is a rocky ravine with 250 yr old temples dotted along it. The local inhabitants are monkeys, hence the name Monkey Temple, and most of them ...

... modern façade and got a glimpse of what Gandhi called the &#8220;heart and soul of the country&#8221;. Rather than my usual thorough investigative analyses, this entry has more random subjective observations.<br><br> <br><br>1. Chucky, the most popular doll of Rajasthan<br><br>As part of our assessment we had a doll on which ASHAs were supposed to demonstrate how they examine ...

... we stopped in on our way to Jaipur. The Taj lives up to everything that has been said about it. It is truly a wonder of the world. The fact that we saw it in about 40 degree heat in the middle of the day certainly dampened our pleasure, but it was still worth it.  The drive in to Jaipur in the evening was a difficult one. Maybe it was the long day, maybe it was the guy who fought with Andy and tried to get into the car after Andy gave him 10 rupees for me taking a ...

... will grow more used to this over time, and people do say that this is far worse in touristy North India than in the South. We have had some lovely interactions with the locals, particularly at our accommodation, but it's hard to get this. Seeing the history is pretty amazing, but I imagine I will have seen my fill and more by the time we leave!

... to come out to lunch with the entire school. It was one of the sweetest and most akward situations of my life!! I sat down with the principal, his wife and his brother. There wasn't much to talk about with them.Then the principal got up in front of all the students and said some parting words to me. It was a nice gesture, but then he wanted all of the students to get up and say something. Of course nobody got up. Then the principal had me ...

... including pictures. 3. The Forts: Jaipur has three forts: The Amber Fort, Jaigarh Fort, and the Nahargarh Fort. Our school took a field trip to them yesterday. For me, the highlites of this trip were the number of white tourists we saw and the biggest cannon in the world. To be honest, forts are not really my thing. They were very nice and impressive and old and I took lots of pictures. They are definitely ...

... good to talk to someone besides wayne. After lunch and a fight with a rickshaw driver that tried to rip us off repeatiatly we were off on our 6 hour bus journey to jaipur. The weather has gotten WAY better(besides a few really bad dust stoms that we've been caught in)! i've able to go out side and enjoy india! hopefully the weather stays like this! i again, am not going to read through this and edit, i'm much to lazy and i still have pictures to upload

... i don't watch hindi movies, but i know that the good ones are a hell of a lot better than that! I had a wierd experience during the interval! Sn Indian man came over to me and started talking to me. He obviously noticed I was with the English (and other European) people, and he started talking about the time when the english ruled over india etc and how much he hated the english. he really had an angry look on his face! some of what he was ...

... as cow scavenging for food in trash heaps. The day is hot and there is dust everywhere, noise and movement never ceasing under the bright sun. The bicycle rickshaw drivers have a hook, a joke they use to get you to hire them. It always goes something like this: "Rickshaw?" "No thank you." "Come come, bicycle rickshaw, very nice." "Not right now. Thanks." "Come come, Airconditioning." "Mwahhahaahahahaha." One man in particular is merciless ...