A slightly chaotic morning! Darryl was woken up on the train by the friendly family who we shared a sleeping compartment with. The family had all left the train but the father stayed to tell Darryl we had arrived in Jaipur.
Darryl woke Christine and told her we had to get off, he then left the train expecting Christine to be right behind him. However, when he turned around she was not there and the train was leaving! Luckily, the trains start moving fairly slowly and Christine managed to jump. What a start to the morning, only to find out it was the wrong station in Jaipur, we needed the next station! We checked when there would be another train for the one stop but were told it would be a one and a half hour wait, so we got an auto rickshaw!
We made it to the hotel and freshened up before tackling the Jaipur Metro. A 6 rupee ticket got us near to where we needed to go but we still had a bit of a walk.
Food was hard to find today. There didn't seem to be many restaurants or street stalls near to where we were. Eventually we found some on a stall and it was pretty good.
After filling up, we looked around a few temples that were 300 years old but the highlight was the 18th century Palace of the Winds. This beautiful 5 story building was built so royal ladies could watch what was happening on the streets below. From the top there is great view of the fort up on the hill and a fantastic sunset view.
As we headed to what we hoped was a food area, we saw a lovely Rajasthan history museum set in a beautiful building. Finally we ate in a restaurant! It was on what we termed as Lassi street. In Jaipur each street sells one particular item. There was car stereo street, push bike street, gold street and general everything plastic street!We stopped for a Lassi and Dahi (like set yoghurt) that helped fill us up, before we caught the Metro back to our hotel.
We have a roof terrace at the hotel where we relaxed, drank tea and watched random fireworks in all directions.
Darryl woke Christine and told her we had to get off, he then left the train expecting Christine to be right behind him. However, when he turned around she was not there and the train was leaving! Luckily, the trains start moving fairly slowly and Christine managed to jump. What a start to the morning, only to find out it was the wrong station in Jaipur, we needed the next station! We checked when there would be another train for the one stop but were told it would be a one and a half hour wait, so we got an auto rickshaw!
We made it to the hotel and freshened up before tackling the Jaipur Metro. A 6 rupee ticket got us near to where we needed to go but we still had a bit of a walk.
Food was hard to find today. There didn't seem to be many restaurants or street stalls near to where we were. Eventually we found some on a stall and it was pretty good.
After filling up, we looked around a few temples that were 300 years old but the highlight was the 18th century Palace of the Winds. This beautiful 5 story building was built so royal ladies could watch what was happening on the streets below. From the top there is great view of the fort up on the hill and a fantastic sunset view.
As we headed to what we hoped was a food area, we saw a lovely Rajasthan history museum set in a beautiful building. Finally we ate in a restaurant! It was on what we termed as Lassi street. In Jaipur each street sells one particular item. There was car stereo street, push bike street, gold street and general everything plastic street!We stopped for a Lassi and Dahi (like set yoghurt) that helped fill us up, before we caught the Metro back to our hotel.
We have a roof terrace at the hotel where we relaxed, drank tea and watched random fireworks in all directions.