Trident Hotel Jaipur

Day 4 Tuesday 18th March 2008 Agra - Jaipur We started with breakfast in the Trident - where Stewart has a lovely Indian breakfast - which proved to be hotter than the meal the night before.  It's still very flat countryside, still full of roadworks ...

... of convex mirrors inlaid into the walls and ceiling. Strangely the mirrors were actually imported from Italy!     One of Jaipur's emperors (okay we can't remember which one) had a real thing about astrology and the prediction of futures and ...

... see a woman come in as we are on the way out.  She shows us how she block prints and then we are off.  On to Jaipur via one of the worst roads of all time, we show up just in time for me to hit the bed as I am feeling even worse than in the ...

We are now in Jaipur which is called the rose colored city because most of the buildings are made of rose colored stone. It was originally given that name when Prince Albert of England came here for a visit in the late 1800s and the current majaraja had ...