Jaipur
and Vicinity: |
November, 2015 |
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Amer
Fort/Amer Palace, an unassailable position in the hills outside of Jaipur |
Your basic
snake charmer with his little cobra friend |
I like the
laundry out drying aroundthe temple |
An island
garden in a huge pool all for the Maharaja and his family |
This
Stepwell used to be the main water reservoir |
Now it
looks like Escher meets Super Mario Brothers |
Back then,
the steps allowed people to get to the water no matter what the level was |
Our driver
and companion, Raju, standing there shows the size of the Stepwell |
He was
stamping little pictures like this onto carpet scraps that couldn't be
used for anything else |
I saw this
coke-drinking lady on outdoor advertising from Delhi up to Amritsar and
down to Varanasi ... I still don't kno who she is and I have asked a
lot of people |
The
idea of a Thali is to have all the 6 different flavors of sweet, salt,
bitter, sour, astringent and spicy on one single plate. This one was a
vegetarian thali, the best
Thali I had |
The inner courtyard of Jas Villas, a small guest house |