Day 7 Friday 2nd Nov - Jaipur Carpet & Textile Buying & Back to Delhi Today is the end of the Taj tour, Norm and Rob have left for Sri Lanka whilst Rose and Les take a separate ride to their destination to see the tigers. The rest of us checkout and make a stop at a textile printing demonstration and carpet making. Russ & I were not that bothered but boy was I blown away. So much so we ended up having 2 rugs shipped back home and bought a beautiful ...

Day 6 1st Nov Hot Air Balloon 03:55 alarm call, birthday surprise day! The concierge as we arrive at the lobby at 0445 comes over and tells us our car is outside, everything is so smoothly run we really don’t need to think at all! There is a man and his 2 young sons in the car and we head on an hours journey out of the city. I sleep most of the way, really couldn’t keep my eyes open. As we arrive an hour later in the dark there is much activity. Lots of ...

Day 5 Wed 31/10/18 8am we are checked out and all ready for our day ahead and journey to Jaipur. By 945 we are at the abandoned palaces of Fatehpur Sikri which was built by the Emperor Akbar between 1571 and 1585 in honour of Salaim Chisthi a famous Sufi saint of the Chishti order. Fatehpur was the Mughal captivating for 14 years. It is a fine example of a Mughal walled city with defined private and public areas and imposing gateways. It’s architecture a ...