Jaipur Day 12 - 29th October 2012

Part 2 - More Amber Fort & Jaipur

Return to Part 1 - Part 1 - Palace of Winds, Amber Fort & Elephants

 

Ganesh Pol...

Up close...

Looking through the Public Audience Hall (Diwan-i-Am )...

Arches in the second courtyard...

From a different angle...

Joan, Amy, Lucy, Derek, Lynn, Richard, Catherine, Emma, Gareth & Sue listening to the guide...

 

Looking up to Jaigarh Fort...

Close up of a section of a wall that stretched across the hillsides...

Group shot - from left to right:
Sylvia, Peter, John, Emma, Gareth, Kathy, Amy, Lucy, Catherine, Derek, me, Lynn, Richard, Joan, Miche & Sue...

Looking down to Maota Lake and gardens and across to the wall and towers on the far hillside...

The path we'd come up on the elephant and looking into Amer Town...

Garden and Mirror Palace (Sheesh Mahal) in the third courtyard...

Miche outside the Mirror Palace...

Restoration...

More Mirror Palace shots...

Ceiling up close...

 

Colourful jar shapes...

An old plainer peacock mural that survived redecoration when the fort was successfully defeated...

Jaipur City

We took an afternoon Tuk Tuk into the city to try and find a bangle for Miche.

We found hardware markets, flower markets, bicycle markets and even tile markets, but we came back empty handed on the bangle front.

Cow taking a wander...

The traffic came in all shapes and sizes...

This chap had also found the shopping tiring...

Having seen the beauty of some of the city's finest architecture, other sights were less easy on the eye: Cows sitting in and eating rubbish...

 

A large sow finds a morsel in a discarded bag...

 

Cow and calf...

Bollywood Movie

That night we went to see the 3-hour long new Bollywood rom-com 'Student of the Year' in one of India's most famous cinemas - Raj Mandir.

A surreal and unmissable experience: it was populated by 90%+ young men, dressed smartly in shirts; there was much whooping and leaping about during the action movie trailer and at any point in the film where smoldering looks were exchanged. Just before the interval, there was a punch-up a few rows behind us and everyone left before the end once they knew what the ending would be, even though the film was still going on.

Blurry night-shot of the exterior...

Official poster...