Jaipur is known as the Pink City and is the capital of Rajasthan. It seems clean, well laid out and well organized compared to Delhi. The Old City houses palaces and museums including the pictured Hawa Mahal or Wind Palace. This is the one room deep rose-colored façade from where the women of the Palace could look down unnoticed at the activity in the streets below while benefiting from the cool cross-breezes.
We are staying at the wonderfully funky Pearl Palace Hotel in Jaipur where for $20 a night Mr. Singh provides a unique environment for his guests. On each door is the motto “You are precious to us.” The rooftop restaurant offers a variety of home cooked meals including the Chef’s Thali a gourmet selection of vegetarian taste delights for just over two dollars. The restaurant is a whimsy of painted murals in a garden setting featuring animal-shaped seating fabricated in iron and overlooked by a huge metal peacock.
Tomorrow we will be met at 8am by Anil who runs Four Wheel Drive India, the company which provided us with our car and Bramesh our driver from Udaipur to Jaipur via Bundi. Anil offered to bring us to his home to meet his wife and have breakfast there before taking us to the train for our first railroad adventure, a six hour journey to Jodhpur.
We are staying at the wonderfully funky Pearl Palace Hotel in Jaipur where for $20 a night Mr. Singh provides a unique environment for his guests. On each door is the motto “You are precious to us.” The rooftop restaurant offers a variety of home cooked meals including the Chef’s Thali a gourmet selection of vegetarian taste delights for just over two dollars. The restaurant is a whimsy of painted murals in a garden setting featuring animal-shaped seating fabricated in iron and overlooked by a huge metal peacock.
Tomorrow we will be met at 8am by Anil who runs Four Wheel Drive India, the company which provided us with our car and Bramesh our driver from Udaipur to Jaipur via Bundi. Anil offered to bring us to his home to meet his wife and have breakfast there before taking us to the train for our first railroad adventure, a six hour journey to Jodhpur.
3 comments:
Hi..your photos are stunningly beautiful.
Hoping that you are feeling better, too.
Ann
Those are wonderful images from "along the road." Hope you both are feeling well again. I tried calling you Friday night from India Gate restaurant in Buffalo. Do you have your cell phone and does it work there? -Chuck
Thank you. Chuck, No U.S. cell phones are for crap. Everyone else in the world can use mobilesfrom anywhere except us!
Ann, Thanks, there'll be a slide show when I get back if you'd like.
We are both feeling great now, thanks!
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