Jaipur....Capital of Rajasthan

I think i have got into the idea of visiting all the capital cities in India...One such visit to a beautiful pink city...

Jaipur is called pink city since half of the city (Old city) is all painted in pink...All the shops buildings and all the things are painted in pink. It is so because the Raja who built Jaipur after amer decided to do so...He also built a great architecture...All the roads are designed in such a way that there are no curves..They all meet at right angles and every such meeting of four roads must have a monument or a fountain. It is wonderful to see the old city.

We did visit Hawa Mahal, City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Amer Palace and Jal Mahal..All of them are well maintained compared to the palaces that are maintained in Maharastra. The way they have made audio guides are wonderful. This time i preferred to try one after saying No to one such thing in Qutub Minar in Delhi. One of the reason is that we both don't know history of these buildings and the guides were demanding enormous amounts compared to audio guide.I found it informative and reasonable. Contrary to all the mahals we did hire a guide in amer palace and i hardly heard what he said since he was repeating the same story that was written over there.

Hawa Mahal is a very nice construction made for then Queens to see the happenings of the city with out coming out in public which was not allowed then due to parda system...It is really wonderful to see the market from inside, You can keep a chair at any of the window you like and sit and see the city from inside as the wind blows by you.

The architecture is done on the outside walls while the inside walls remain normal.

The view from one of the window....It is a five storied building. From the top you can see Jantar Mantar, City Palace and Nahargarh fort and amer fort.

Next destination was Jantar Mantar..I did not happen to understand anything of what it is and how did they try and estimate things..But i did appreciate the efforts of the Raja to build such thing in order to predict the solar and lunar eclipses and the positions of the sun and the zodiac signs.


City Palace is also a wonderful creation. The Raja used to stay here and the palace is still maintained very neatly and the architecture and the other things are still preserved. The armour museum is wonderful and astonishing to see..all the swords and their information is very well organized. The audio guide would explain everything about daggers, swords and armours too...

The amer Palace is wonderful. One who has seen Jodha Akbar would like to see the palace. The architects had built in such a way that the summers can be spent in a place which is built of marbles and the water flow on slides built so that the wind will get cooled and the water then reaches the garden in between the fort. From the fort you will be able to see the Wall of Jaipur which is a 12km stretch.

And then the next thing we did is Shop...of course i did not buy too much of stuff but it is good to see the bazaars...all in pink and all the guys would call you with only one name Didi...Their point of bargaining is also catchy...they would say aap ki bhai ko itna kam paise denge...Instead i would say bargain as much as you can cause all the prices are triple since it is a tourist place...

 Market...See all painted in pink...












 Dhood Dhood Piyo Roj Glass full...You can find many of such guys who are selling milk in such big vessels...











Rawat Kachori - Famous kachori center in Jaipur...People were fighting to get a plate for themselves...






Thinking what would be my next place of visit...Even i don't know..Will search for a capital again...Lucknow maybe..

Priya.

P.S: We stayed at Country Inn & Suites and it is a wonderful hotel to stay....