Up early we met the priest who took us down to the lake for an early morning blessing . A rather unique experience it showed what the true meaning of the town was and why so many people pilgrimage to the small town. E then ventured out and hit the markets - witha. Bit of israeli food and fresh juices in between before venturing back to the hotel for a swim in the pool ( which was unfortunately overlooked by a construction site!). We then went and met the rest of ...

We rise to meet at 8.40 to cath our taxi to the main bussation in Jaipur to catch a public bus to pushkar, we arrived at the station looking at a lot if dsshevelled old buses wondering which one we would have the pleasure of riding in. A few minutes later a pretty reasonable coach pulled up and we piled on. 4 hour later and we arrived in the idyllic hippy town of pushkar. The absolutely stunning view as the bus wove down the winding roads told me we are in for a ...

Final day in Jaipur. After our full on walking day, liz had sweet talked a tuk tuk guy to drive us up to Amber fort. We had a rather interesting and squashed ride up the 11km drive with 5 of us in a 3 person tuk yuk ;) witha quick stop at yhe jal mahal ( a palace sunken in the middle of a lake - stunning) the amber fort was stunning but even at 9.30 in the morning the sun was insanely hot. We then looped round to tiger fort which had an amazing panorama over the ...

Sooooo Jaipur super dusty town. Today we decided to congregate at around 9.30 to do a full on day. The group of us ventured to the top hits - the city palace being the first. A beautiful building with ornate intricate carvings and decoration based around two courtyards. After here we made a dashed visit around the jantar mantar in the burning midday sun. A beautiful collection of sculptures designed to do astronomical readings with amazing accuracy. A few of us t...

With a relative lie in we caught our 10.15 train from ranthambore to Jaipur. A much more sedate, on time and empty train journey to our previous encounter we arrived within 2 hours to our destination when we headed straight for our hotel arya niwas. A. Stunning littl complex full of tourists and indians. Out on the streets for our orineyation walk the sights and sounds were overwhelmed by the amount of dust an dirt that fills the air around you. ( still i prefer ...