Jaipur Day 1
Consumer Alert! The wifi that we have been connecting to in India is unanimously the slowest we have ever used. Given that, it has been a challenge to get images uploaded to accompany the posts. So, yep, we are a bit behind. On another note, Tara has become the official photographer of our trip but it will be some time until we can get her images up.
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We spent 3 nights in the Pink City of Jaipur. Pink is the designated color of Jaipur where other ciites have different colors. The buildings on the main thoroughfare are required to be painted pink as is this one, the Palace of Winds. There are nearly 1000 windows in this structure from which the unveiled royal women of the day we would observe the street life below unseen.
We also visited the Jantar Mantar Observatory which was constructed in the early 1800's and has an incredible collection of sundials and other instruments for reading astronomical and astrological signs. It houses the worlds largest stone sundial with resolution down to 2 seconds, pretty cool.
There were a few observation tools where two nearly identical structures were created with the intent to allow easy access for readings and maintenance. If you could overlap each implement they would make a perfect whole. Each tool allows readings on opposite hours. These shown below are for the Zodiak. If overlaid, the white space of each would take up the dark space of the opposite.
After an exciting bailout on our first attempt at the Amber Fort, which I wrote about in the Driven post, we dropped by an elephant rescue and rehab operation where Patti finally gave a little in the hard sell. Tugging on the heart strings with the cost of upkeep and feeding Patti acquiesced from the full experience of elephant bathing, riding, painting, swimming, leg wrestling, ballroom dancing, skydiving etc. etc. billed at almost $600 to $31worth of feeding and petting which turned out to be just perfect.
Rileys Elephant excitement was pegged, until she got slimed. Elephant snot all over her arm. Gooey, sticky, runny, the perfect blend, which she promptly deposited on Dads arm with a craftily timed wipe.
We snapped an image of the Jal Mahal, Water Palace on our way back for the evening. This palace was built along with a reservoir to surround it. That must have been a paradise in the unrelenting days of summer before air conditioning. The forts and palaces of India are owned by the government and the royals. Many of them are being coverted into hotels and museums with the aim to preserve them. What a great wedding spot this would make.
While we were walking from the road to the shore to observe the palace and little boy started talking to Vikram, our guide for the day. I found it interesting that this dialogue went on for some time until finally Vikram told us that this boy was a magician and that he tried to get the boy to show him his secrets. To which the boy replied "If I did that then who would be the hero?!" Good point from the little guy. He did a really good job taking coins from Riley's ears and pant legs and stumping Tara in a shell game.
See Images in 2018 Jaipur
Images: You might have to access the images in a different way depending on the size of your screen. For full size monitors the links should appear on the left, for phones and tablets you will need to select the menu drop-down icon on the upper left corner.
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We spent 3 nights in the Pink City of Jaipur. Pink is the designated color of Jaipur where other ciites have different colors. The buildings on the main thoroughfare are required to be painted pink as is this one, the Palace of Winds. There are nearly 1000 windows in this structure from which the unveiled royal women of the day we would observe the street life below unseen.
We also visited the Jantar Mantar Observatory which was constructed in the early 1800's and has an incredible collection of sundials and other instruments for reading astronomical and astrological signs. It houses the worlds largest stone sundial with resolution down to 2 seconds, pretty cool.
There were a few observation tools where two nearly identical structures were created with the intent to allow easy access for readings and maintenance. If you could overlap each implement they would make a perfect whole. Each tool allows readings on opposite hours. These shown below are for the Zodiak. If overlaid, the white space of each would take up the dark space of the opposite.
After an exciting bailout on our first attempt at the Amber Fort, which I wrote about in the Driven post, we dropped by an elephant rescue and rehab operation where Patti finally gave a little in the hard sell. Tugging on the heart strings with the cost of upkeep and feeding Patti acquiesced from the full experience of elephant bathing, riding, painting, swimming, leg wrestling, ballroom dancing, skydiving etc. etc. billed at almost $600 to $31worth of feeding and petting which turned out to be just perfect.
Rileys Elephant excitement was pegged, until she got slimed. Elephant snot all over her arm. Gooey, sticky, runny, the perfect blend, which she promptly deposited on Dads arm with a craftily timed wipe.
We snapped an image of the Jal Mahal, Water Palace on our way back for the evening. This palace was built along with a reservoir to surround it. That must have been a paradise in the unrelenting days of summer before air conditioning. The forts and palaces of India are owned by the government and the royals. Many of them are being coverted into hotels and museums with the aim to preserve them. What a great wedding spot this would make.
While we were walking from the road to the shore to observe the palace and little boy started talking to Vikram, our guide for the day. I found it interesting that this dialogue went on for some time until finally Vikram told us that this boy was a magician and that he tried to get the boy to show him his secrets. To which the boy replied "If I did that then who would be the hero?!" Good point from the little guy. He did a really good job taking coins from Riley's ears and pant legs and stumping Tara in a shell game.
See Images in 2018 Jaipur
Images: You might have to access the images in a different way depending on the size of your screen. For full size monitors the links should appear on the left, for phones and tablets you will need to select the menu drop-down icon on the upper left corner.
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