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  Udaipur, Pushkar and Jaipur, India
Monday, January 8, 2007

Just got back from a long walk through Jaipur, my head is buzzing with all of the honking, watching my step constantly, watching the traffic, and of course wanting to see all of the stuff in the shops that is pouring out into the sidewalks, sparkly saris, copper bowls, piles of lentils, boiling oil woks full of samosas, and then of course open drain holes and piles of garbage. 
The first week I was here I couldn't help but compair the desert to africa.  I have found in the second week that I have let India just be itself.  It is amazing to see a dusty village and a woman at the well sparkly and shimmery in the sun.  They wear so much jewellery, men included.  A person can be grimy, but still a part of them is shiny.  Lots of gold, men wear two earrings, lots of rings, and there is always sequins or metal thread or beads, it is very beautiful.
The streets are FULL of every imaginable kind of transportation, the obvious cars, buses and trucks, auto rickshaws, bike rickshaws, bikes, motorcycles,donkey carts, horse carts, camel carts, elephant carts, just try crossing the street with all of that going on!
We have been getting around a bit... a few heritage hotels in small villages.  We spent new years at one and all dressed up in saris and had a good time. Udaipur was beautiful, a great place to just sit back at a restaurant by the lake and relax.  Pushkar was full of crusty hippies, it is a huge spiritual mecca for hindus, so it attracts an interesting crowd.  We took a fun cooking class at a house and the family invited their journalist friend.  He took some pictures and we ended up in the paper the next day!

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01-all the girls in their saris on new year's eve	02-phil and percy dressed as maharajahs	03-all of us around the fires	04-trying to figure out the string game
05-at the jain temple in ranakpur	06-temple on the hill in ranakpur	07-carved marble columns	08-outside the jain temple
09-persian wheel, oxen powered irrigation!	10-Kumalgargh fort	11-udaipur at night, the palace view from dinner	12- lunch, Andrew, laura, phil, christina, and me
13-summer palace at udaipur	14-Here is my new year's portrait at the palace!	15-elephant walking down the main drag	16-my pretty room in Jojowar
17-relaxing at the hotel in jojowar	18-giant pieces of marble on all the trucks!	19-roadside restaurant	20-driving into pushkar
21-view of ghats in Pushkar from my room	22-hill we climbed, first exercise in days!	23-shivani, our cooking teacher on the right	24-gardens at amber fort, jaipur
25-bamboo scaffolding	26-at the movies in jaipur, all in Hindi!	27-carried water from the ganges to england	28-streetside barbershop, jaipur
29-goat market	30-asia's biggest gate	31-our trusty driver and his helper	32-everyone in position on the bus
33-taj mahal in the dawn mist	34-there it is again!	35-the group,last day all together

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