Jaipur - the largest city and capitol of Rajastan with 2 million people


This is a picture of me standing in front of a Leo sundial built in the late 1700s by one of the majahranas of Jaipur who was a "great astronomer". In fact we saw a lot of neat things in this sundial type park including the world's largest sundial and other astronomical structures that I couldn't understand.


Elephant walking down the street.

Jaipur was a lot like Jodhpur. We saw a palace and the same street scenes. Then of course were taken to a place to buy something. They fool you by pretending they are showing you how rugs are made and let you try it out even. Next you are taken into a large room for the hard sell.

Also, saw for the first time public urinals. Yep guys were just standing in these things doing their business.

A poor deformed lady gave me her little kid, who was half naked, and wanted a picture and some money. The child was just a baby, maybe 6 months. Poor thing, I wanted to take it away.

Here are the rest of the Jaipur images.

We wrote some notes on some other things that I failed to mention, so here we go:

- On our tour in Bangkok we asked the driver/guide if he spoke English and he responded with "Yes Yes" and that was the last English he spoke.

- In fact there are many translation issues. Sometimes I think the guides just memorize the English parts because when I ask them questions it is useless. However we have had some wonderful and knowledgeable guides. One example was at the Gate of India. The guide asked if we wanted to get out and take some pictures. I said yes, the guide said OK, said something to the driver and we turned around and left the gate of India. Wow. UR and I had cameras in hand and were just kinda staring at each other in amazement wondering what we had done wrong.

- UR is convinced that all the dogs around town are faking being sickly or injured so people leave them alone during the day. The night in Udaipur we were walking around we started to see another side to the canines. It was that time when the shops started to close up and there were less people on the roads. Instead of wandering around helpless and alone the dogs were now in packs yipping and yelling. Their little ploy of being submissive to humans was quickly going away as the day got darker. They became much more aggressive and we are pretty sure if we were out 15 more minutes we could have had a problem.

- "pur" is the basic word for city/town/place in the Hindu language. Jaipur, founded by the maharaja Jai something Singh....Udaipur, same thing with Udai something. "bad" is the basic word for city/town/place in Muslim. Islamabad, Aurangabad, etc.

OK it is late and we have a full tour tomorrow. Please email me if you have any questions or to let me know you are reading this. I don't know who is seeing this.

Thanks!