Northern India Journey - Day 9 Jaipur - 21/12/2010

The weather in Jaipur was very nice not as cold as New Delhi. We went ahead to to old city area. Actually all the major historical places were very close together. The whole old city is printed in a kind of peachy colour. So people call it as pink city. But whole city didn't impress us much. (Quite a few people I met in the trip as had this comment.) So we only visited their iconic place, Hawa Mahal. But the only thing that keep you interested was the multi-windows wall outside. The inner was not that fascinating. The interior was very minimal. I barely saw any Rajasthani style in the design.

The visit in the old city just took us a morning. Awfully, I felt sick again!! I didn't know it was because the temperature between morning and afternoon changed a lot or whatever. But I was still fine to keep going. We, then. took a bus to Amber Fort which outside the city. On the bus, I saw an old lady who had a huge lump on her tummy. Her voice was loud. When the staff on the bus collecting the fare, she hadn't had enough money. The staff asked her to get off the bus. She didn't want to and start begging in bus and try to get some money from other passengers. But no one did anything. She, then, started arguing with the staff and also asked people to help her. Few minutes later, the staff let her take the ride. Before we arrived the Fort, the lady got off already. I started thinking it was a common scene here or just a little incident. In this country you would see everything about a life.

We got off the bus and went to the Fort. There was a beautiful lake next to the road which I heard was to collection rain for drinking water when people built the Fort. Amber Fort was on the hill, so we climb quite a long way to there. On the road, there were some hawkers selling souvenirs. One man, who sold stone-decorated pens, kept following us and asked us to buy. We didn't respond him and occasionally told him we won't buy anything here. He started cutting the price. In his facial expression, he looked like he had no business whole day. I was a bit sorry on him. But I didn't buy anything honestly.

The plaza inside Amber Fort

We reached the Fort in a few minutes. Before we went inside to see the museum, we decided to skip this and and went to another place Jaigarh Fort. That was on the summit of the hill next to Amber Fort. We went there because we could see the whole area from that fort and the beautiful sunset. Climb up there wasn't easy. The road as steep and long. But if you are there, it worth.

On the way to Jaigarh Fort

Sunset view of Jaigarh Fort

When we were way back to our hostel, we went to McDonald's for our dinner!! I quite insisted in it as I didn't want to eat curry when I was feeling unwell. That's why I went to bed almost immediately at night and I skipped the chance to talk with my roommates about the travel!! What a shame.