Jaipur Specialty Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I had read about an Astrologer in Jaipur and also seen something similar on Michael Palin's Himilaya shows and was intrigued to go and meet this chap. I booked to meet Dr Vinod Shastri of the Rajisthan Astrological Council and Research Institute. Our meeting was at three but I arrived a little early so went exploring. Before I go any further I n...

Sat 9th After a very scary ride on a sleeper train we arrived at 5.10 am into Jaipur having had a suprising amount of sleep. We booked our next train and made a bit of a mess up which basically meant we had to see the ehole city in one day...there was only one solution...tourist bus!! We went on a very touristy open topped bus ride seeing all th...

I just got back from our first weekend trip outside Delhi (Agra doesn't count) to Jaipur, where I fulfilled a semester-long dream of riding an elephant. :oP We left Delhi in the weeeeeeee hours of the morning Saturday (i.e. 6:30am) and arrived in the Pink City around 1 in the afternoon. The hotel we stayed in was almost too fabulous for words......

We hit the sights in the morning, visiting the Hawa Mahal (where the ladies of the harem lived and peeped out on the world through the numerous tiny windows). We were on our way to the palace, and having taken a wrong turn, we were navigating back round when suddenly we were mobbed by a group of screaming girls who grabbed us and dragged us back...

Up early before the sun and before it gets too hot as its a 5k walk up to the main road. Said my good-byes to the other WWOOFers who are also leaving today, and headed up to the Main road carrying about 25kgs of back-pack, most of which I won't need till I hit the Himalayas. Caught the next bus that came along an headed for the Jaipur Inn which ...