Hotel Choki Dhani Jaipur

We like jaipur. got up at half 6 this morning to get a morning bus to jaipur, about 6 hours. it could have been a lot worse as although the bus deffo wouldnt be allowed on english roads, by indian standards it was pretty comfy!

we went on a walk around the city this afternoon - so so pretty, everything is pink because they painted it fo...

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Quelques lignes sur un blog semblent bien peu pour représenter l'Inde... Nous avons beau décrire ce que l'on voit et ce que l'on ressent, rien ne semble à la hauteur de ce qui nous entours. Il faut tenter à la fois de vous représenter la pauvreté, frapante dès les premiers pas, la saleté d'un niveau difficilement imagin...

As a result of adding Jaisalmer, we had a long roadtrip today. To go to Jaipur from Jaiselmer is 600km, and took about 12 hours factoring in lunch and stops, etc.

We went a longer but faster route via Bikaner and stopped at Bikaner Fort on the way.

There was a small village we stopped at that had these interesting birds. They w...

Craving some western food and to escape the dirty streets we head to the Ramburgh Palace for afternoon tea. We get our first rickshaw of the trip and inevitably get ripped off big time. What we later find out should have been a RS30 journey we end up paying RS100 for. The palace used to be the former residence of the Maharaja and has been conver...

Jaipur

Jaipur, also known as the Pink City, for the obvious reason, that the buildings are all painted pink .... ish is the capital of the state of Rajasthan. We arrived here after what felt like a never ending journey of 40 degree claustrophobia to a sea of rickshaw wallahs all fighting for our business, we usually pick our ride on w...

As our 5.00pm train pulled away from Jaisalmer station, I settled back and watched the golden landscape slip by. The train picked up some speed, cool air whipped in through open, barred windows and once again I felt the relaxing calm I had experienced sleeping out in the desert. The sun was setting beautifully and my spirits soared as I actually...

So we have moved on again..we got an overnight train to make our way to Aurangabad to see the caves and had a 8 hour wait from 9.30pm to 5.30 am overnight at Nanded train station, we tried to sleep on the benches on the platform but the police rapped my bench with his cane and said only one of us could sleep while the other watched the bags. I t...

More lessons on ashram-life stories to come....but in the meantime, our travels... ...wow....stickiest keyboard ever & all the letters are worn off....i'll do my best on this one.... We left the ashram in a blaze of glory on Dec 22....(best day ever)....and made way to Bodhgaya in a caravan of three SUVs blasting across the landscape. 11 of ...

Our train from Agra arrived late into Jaipur so we had arranged for just a basic place to stay the first night (Jas Vilas)...upgrading to a very nice place the second night (Taj Jai Mahal Palace). Turns out the more basic place was the one we liked more...but I'm getting ahead of myself. Arrival into Jaipur was a bit chaotic because we were half...

Hello, my 3d day in Jaipur, been away nearly a week now. My haggling skills are becoming highly honed and yesterday i managed to get 2 salwar suits for 300rps each, and some shoes for 160rps (cause i stuck out i my clothes and my shoes had now grip. have been a bit of a tourist but not much. Yeaterday i had 3 firsts, 1. teaching in the class roo...