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Jaipur

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Colourful Elephant

Chloe Writes: Compared to Delhi, Jaipur is a much calmer and relaxed city. Like Delhi and I guess most of India, a stroll along the back streets feels like stepping back in time and much of the tools we’ve seen in the museums here are without a doubt still used today as both tools and skills are handed down the generations.

Our guest house was lovely and I will remember it for drinking sweet tea on the veranda. Yesterday, our Rickshaw driver, Lucky, took us to the monkey temple to watch the sunset. After spending 10 rps or about 15p for a bag of nuts we started to make our way up to the temple. After feeding about 3 monkeys, there was a bit of a commotion and one monkey ended up with the rest of the bag.

Chloe Eating a Traditional Rajastani Meal

Some of the places we visited included the Amber fort where the views of the mountains were spectacular, we also had lunch in a lovely rooftop restaurant tucked away in a little stairwell leading from the bazaar and we have found out that some of the cheapest food is definitely the tastiest.

Pete in Turban

Pete writes: Delhi is definitely a distant memory, and we have only been here for 3 days! The room is so chilled, tucked away from the hustle, bustle and horns of the main streets. (Karni Niswas is the name in case anyone ever makes it here).

Last night we ventured to Choki Dhani, a mock Rajasthan village from the past. We ate a traditional meal that was served in bowls made of tobacco leafs, with our lassi served in clay cups. It was really interesting to see how they used to live.

Next stop Pushkar……

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The Amber Fort

Silver pot
The largest silver object made by manually shaping coins without melting them down

Cheeky M s
Cheeky (but most likely full) Monkeys

3 Elephants
Elephant procession

A Cow amongst the Pigeons

Water Temple

DJ Point
Sorry couldn’t resist this one!

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Delhi

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Delhi Market

Pete writes: Having been in Delhi for 2 days now, I think I am going to like India:) At first I was shocked at how busy everything was, but I guess with over 12.8 million people it is going to get busy!
We spent the first day in a daze being driven around the sights in a car. Had a look around where Gandhi was assassinated and a couple of temples.
Today we decided to venture out without the security of a car, and how much fun was it? LOADS.. We even ventured on a rickshaw with some poor guy trying to pedal Chloe and I up a hill, feeling sorry for the man trying to pull at least 3 times his own weight up a hill I had to get off to give him a hand. Then luckily (+ slightly scary) we started to go down hill weaving in and out stationary buses, cars and auto rickshaws. Would we do it again, hell yeah:)

So tomorrow we start our venture to Jaipur by train, and the next part of the journey begins…

Cow

Chloe Writes: What a crazy city! The taxi journey from the airport was hairy to say the least, the Rickshaws, Cars, Trucks and even Busses all weave their way in and out of the traffic. A 3 lane road quite easily turns into a 7 lane road where instead of using mirrors they beep their horns to make them selves known. Apart from the scams which are annoying but you get used to these, the city is vibrant, colorful and bustling with it’s markets, food stalls (no Dad I haven’t eaten from these), Rickshaws and a fair selection of live stock wandering the streets, and is as far away as possible from western culture. The poverty is everywhere you look and you can’t help but be affected by it, but giving someone money is not going to help their situation so you have be thick skinned and try to get used to it. Tomorrow we leave the city of Delhi to start our journey through Rajasthan.

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Roundabout chaos in central Delhi