Jaipur

We spent our first week-end of October in Jaipur and stayed there 4 days. Jaipur was founded in the desert by Maharaja Jai Singh II in the year 1727;it was the first planned city in India and Jaipur is also known as the Pink City. It is now the capital city of Rajasthan and is popular for the charm and cultural heritage the city provides.

Early morning on Friday (5h), we boarded a train from New Delhi Railway Station to reach for lunch time. Then we had city tour by autorickshaw to visit the City Palace, where the King was staying, Jantar Mantar, Amber Fort, and Jahangal Mahal before sunset...

On the next day, we started our visit inside the city walls, in Babu market next to the city palace; the streets are full of shops of clothes, jewels and other stuff for decorations, but pieces are highly overpriced. To take a break of the market frenesy, we enter the Hawa Mahal, the palace of winds as cool and opened rooms are kept fresh with the shade even in the scorching summer. We also went later to the white and shining Krishna temple.

We book a taxi for the whole Sunday as we went to the Nahargarh Fort, the palace for the 9 wives of an ancient king, and the Old Fort with the largest canon in the world. After a good lunch in a Indian restaurant, we visited the Albert Hall Museum and its brilliant artistic collections, but then our taxi driver took us back next to our lunch place to visit a jewels' shop (which was not really good and too expensive).

On Monday, we directly drop our bag in the train station's locker room. We had some nice time in a mall for chill over a coffee; but also in the old streets of the Pink city. We had to take the afternoon train to reach Delhi at night...