Namaste! After a long wait for my omellette (there was only one girl making them), I was able to sit down for a nice breakfast. I was pretty hungry, as I didn't eat dinner last night. My cold seemed to be easing a bit. still have the sniffles and that nagging cough at night. I forget about my special pills (Cozy-Calm) until the coughing starts and those seem to knock it right out. LOL. We were all pretty tired but, we're explorers, so you kinda push that t...

Namaste! Today after breakfast we headed to Agra. The trip was the usual long drive. About 6 hours to Agra. We took lots of photos of the rambling countryside and it's inhabitants. We encountered a vehicle accident and our driver decided to avoid it and take a short cut; however, we ran into a bit of trouble. He tried to make a left turn in a small village with very narrow streets. I could not see it, but Hope said that if he tried to back up, the bus woul...

Naaaa Maaaaaaaa Steeeee! Yes, I am tired, but it's nothing that a delicious omlette wouldn't cure. LOL. After breakfast, we loaded up the bus and headed out to Jantar Mantar. The Jantar Mantar is an equinoctial sundial, consisting a gigantic triangular gnomon with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis. On either side of the gnomon is a quadrant of a circle, parallel to the plane of the equator. The instrument is intended to measure the time of day, corr...

Namaste! After a very nice breakfast, we took lots os photos of the hotel grounds. The place is magnificent. We then loaded up onto the bus and headed out to the Biological Park/Elephant Village. Fifty-one houses have been built in the village of Kunda to house the mahouts - keepers - and their elephants. The state government has allotted the land for the village, close to the historical Amer Fort in the state capital, Jaipur. Every year 1.4 million touri...

Namaste! After a 5 hour drive, we landed in Jaipur. We had lunch at Samode Palace. Samode Palace, Samode Haveli and Samode Bagh (Garden) are heritage monuments and structures built by the noble feudatory with the hereditary title of 'Maha Rawal' or 'Maha Saheb' of the Amber and Jaipur principality in Rajasthan, India. All three have rich history of several hundred years and display a fusion of Mughal and Rajasthani art and architecture. They are now part of t...