1 Jaipur The Bissau Palace Hotel |
2 Jaipur One of the gates leading into the Pink City |
3 Jaipur Market by the west gate |
4 Jaipur Inside the Hawa Mahal |
5 Jaipur View from the Hawa Mahal over Jaipur and the City Palace |
6 Jaipur Facade of the Hawa Mahal |
7 Jaipur The Jantar Mantar, Jai Singh's giant observatory |
8 Jaipur Giant sundial |
9 Jaipur Jantar Mantar, Royal Palace and Nahargarh (Tiger Fort, on the mountain) |
10 Jaipur Mubarak Mahal, or Welcom Palace, inside the City Palace complex |
11 Jaipur This is Rajasthan. |
12 Jaipur The Diwan-i-Khas, or Hall of Private Audience, in the City Palace complex |
13 Jaipur City Palace |
14 Jaipur These 1.6 m vessels are made of silver. The Guiness Book of Records claims they are the biggest pieces of silver in the world. |
15 Jaipur Displaying the wares in a jaipur tissue emporium |
16 Jaipur Et voiola! |
17 Jaipur Elephants in the streets of Jaipur |
18 Jaipur Animals in the courtyard of the Bissau Palace Hotel |
19 Jaipur Chipmunk |
20 Jaipur There was a family of owls in a hole in a tree. |
21 Jaipur Breakfast in the garden. Quel plaisir! |
22 Jaipur Those are bricks she's carrying on her head. |
23 Jaipur Amber Fort |
24 Jaipur Elephants in the lake outside Amber |
25 Jaipur Elephant shower |
26 Jaipur The first courtyard of Amber Fort |
27 Jaipur Gate to the upper level of the palace |
28 Jaipur The Diwan-i-Aam, or Hall of Public Audience |
29 Jaipur The beautiful Jai Mandir (Hall of Victory), in Amber Fort, inlaid with stones and small mirrors |
30 Jaipur Jai Mandir |
31 Jaipur Jai Mandir |
32 Jaipur Kesar Kyari Bagh, or safran gardens, in the middle of Lake Maota, viewed from Amber Palace |
33 Jaipur Ramparts on the ridge tops surround Amber. |
34 Jaipur Upper level of Amber Palace |
35 Jaipur View of Amber with Jaipur in the distance |
36 Jaipur The Jah Mahal |
37 Jaipur The climb up to the Monkey Temple |
38 Jaipur Goat, monkey and dog |
39 Jaipur View over some of Jaipur's suburbs |
40 Jaipur View over Jaipur with Nahagarh, Tiger Fort, on the distant mountain |
41 Jaipur Looking down on the Galta temple complex |
42 Jaipur One of the gates to the Pink City |
43 Jaipur Chow time |
44 Jaipur Peafowl on the hotel grounds |
45 Jaipur Lower, or western, approach to Galta |
46 Jaipur Galta |
47 Jaipur One of the sacred tanks of Galta |
48 Jaipur Sacred tank and view of Galta |
49 Jaipur Rama, Sita and Lakshmana |
50 Jaipur A sacred tank at Galta |
51 Jaipur Families at Galta |
52 Jaipur The water looks great. |
53 Jaipur Monkeys playing at Galta. It is called the Monkey Temple. |
54 Jaipur Monkeys at Galta |
55 Jaipur Begging monkey |
56 Jaipur Monkey family with cow |
57 Jaipur This one looks like an old monkey. Pregnant? |
58 Jaipur A tree full of birds |
59 Jaipur Wild bougainvillia |
60 Jaipur A Hindu religious festival we met in the streets of Jaipur |
61 Jaipur Decorated elephant |
62 Jaipur Decorated camels and friend |
63 Jaipur Decorated horses |
64 Jaipur A brass band played extremely rythmic music. |
65 Jaipur Dancers |
66 Jaipur Interior of the Bissau Palace Hotel |
67 Jaipur Interior of the Bissau Palace Hotel |
68 Jaipur Dining area in the Bissau Palace Hotel |