Continuing from Part 2 from Jaisalmer.
Following morning we were at Jaipur station.
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Jaipur in a day:
We were late by complete 2 and half hours and reached at
7:30 AM at Jaipur station. According to the plan we were to search and place
our stuffs in Dharamshala and roam around the city.
Is se sasta aur achha aur kahan !!
However, just as we came out of station an auto driver
reached us and asked ‘kidhar jaaoge?’
We said ‘kisi saste aur ache Dharamshala me lekar chalo?.
‘Dharamshala me kya karoge ji, aap ko
500 me acha hotel aur 700 me Indica karwa deta hoon. Ek din me pura city ghuma
dega?’
It was a jackpot for us. Our negotiation skills worked and
we finaled the deal with Rs 300 for hotel room and Rs.500 for Indica car with
driver. He was trapped ;)
Checked in the hotel. Ran the tap water here was water. We became emotional when we remembered the
yellow water and breakfast in Jaisalmer and near border.
Driver’s attitude:
Just as we came out of the hotel a dusky and slim old man in
ganji and pyjama was standing near a white Indica car. He posed upright with
his white Rajputi moustache.
We doubted his ability to cover the city as we had
imagined.
But man, he was macho. Almost flew the car with perfect
attitude of a rough driver. He took us around the new city explaining places
and honking badly. A normal driver horns sometime but this man removed his
finger from horn sometimes. However, we decided to not to bother him. We were rather
scared of him.
Hawa Mahal:
Coming out from new city our Indica entered the pink city.
Every single shop and building was pink in color. It looked nice. But the
reason behind it depressed me. Masterji stopped before entrance of Hawa Mahal.
We purchased composite ticket of Rs.200 per person. It’s
valid for almost all the places you can visit there.
What to see or feel.
Amazing colors of walls and windows. Free flowing winds in
deep and dark galleries.
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RTDC:
It was not in the list, but was in the list of Masterji. At the gate he instructed ‘yahan se kuch
mat kharidna, bahot mahnga bechte hain’. We went inside. We purchased
Jaipuri Rajai for Rs.1050 and purchased
a kurta for Rs.600. We were feeling embarrassed as to how will we show the purchases
to Masterji.
We said ‘Humne kuch kharida’. He prompted ‘Tumne
Rs1050 ki aur tumne Rs.600 ki’. There’s a solid channel operating there.
Vishwanath said ‘Wow!! I said ‘HOW?’ Masterji went on explaining things out there.
He said I have LED TV, Refrigerator, Cooler and many other things all given by
RTDC.
Jantar Mantar:
Next he dropped us at Jantar Mantar.
For techies it’s an excellent place to know the astronomical
capability we had. But make sure you take guide or silently follow one like
us ;)
There are some
amazing instruments all made by Jai Singh. He was a learned scholar.
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Amer fort:
After Jantar Mantar we went out from the city. Some 20km
away from city on the green hills of Aravalli lies the Amer fort.
I was fascinated to visit this place as I had heard a lot
since my childhood.
What to see or feel:
It’s a huge fort cum palace. Fort is covered with wall round
the mountain. Locals call it mini Great wall of China.
To reach the top you have two options. One you can hire an
elephant for Rs.900 which will take you to the gate. This is an old route
which was used by kings and his guests. Other one is you go up by some vehicle.
Local guides are available for Rs.100. But they don’t explain
you many things and are not allowed inside the main fort. Although it looked
lucrative but we resisted, went inside the fort and hired an official
government authorized guide for Rs.200
Our guide Sunil Saini was quite knowledgeable. He went on explaining
the strategic points, the history and other stuffs. We were satisfied because
he could solve most of ours question.
We enquired standing near the parade ground and Darbar-e-aam
which has been used in many movie shootings since the fort was built by
Rajput rulers which were Hindu, we could see good amount of Muslim architecture
here? He answered its result of Mughal connection. It was built during
Akbar and after defeat from Akbar. Jodhabai was surrendered to Akbar. As they
built relationships with Mughals they included their architecture as well.
Next we asked Why the city was painted pink? Sunil
said the city was originally white in color. To welcome British king the
ruler here painted the complete city in pink (that’s bad)
Next Sunil showed us escape routes and the 9 alleys in the
corridor which led to queen palace. You have to select the correct one to reach
her.
It took 2 hours to see the fort. We came out and we were
hungry. Asked Masterji to drop us at good Rajasthani hotel.
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But before dropping us at hotel he dropped us at Jal Mahal
was in route. It’s splendid. Tried our hands at camera. I was missing filters
for lens as we could not manage slow shutter due to bright sun.
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| Jal Mahal |
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| Loved the flying position |
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Next he took us to Radha Govind hotel. They charged Rs.180
per plate for a nice Rajasthani food.
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Marne ke baad bhi loot te hain:
Left restaurant and were heading to city museum. Enroute we
saw some architecture and asked Masterji what’s this? He said ‘Saale
ye raaje jeete ji bhi paise vasoolte the aur marne ke baad bhi vasoolte hain.
Rajaon ki Samadhi sthal hai’ We said
‘aago badho :)’
Next we visited Albert museum. It has a nice showcase of
industrial art of Rajasthan and all sorts of musical instruments they had.
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| Let me jump :) |
With
this ended our Jaipur tour and were back to hotel.
The last thing left was checking out and back to home !
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