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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Day 6 - Jaipur

Breakfast at our hotel, we went with the Indian breakfast - masala dosa, fresh fruit, plain yogurt and coffee/tea.

After breakfast, we went to see Jantar Mantar, an astronomical and astrological site built in the 18 th century. One of the giant sun dials is accurate to 2 seconds.

Sights traveling to Jantar Mantar




The sun dials at Jantar Mantar.





Aires


Leo the Lion


Sun dials


Then we went to the City Palace Museum.



Gangajali Jar - largest silver objects in the world. Weighs 345 kilos and 900 gallon capacity.


Time for lunch  - western lunch - sandwich, fries, and dessert


Left the palace area and walked to the market.  

People, traffic, animal watching at the market:


Shops - small space but jammed packed with goods.  Merchants almost drag you inside to look at their gods and buy.


And more shops.  We bought nothing.


Traffic


More traffic.  In Indian traffic, the following rules must be accorded at all times - In descending order give way to: cows, elephants, camels, buffalo, pigs, goats, dogs, heavy trucks, buses, official cars, pedal rickshaws, private cars, motorcycles, scooters, auto-rickshaws, handcarts, and finally to pedestrians. 











Camel


Elephant 


The bicycles carry such heavy loads



And so do the people




Marilyn's glad she's not driving


Dinner - chicken stroganoff, rice, tomato soup, apple pie with ice cream. No curry tonight.

Tomorrow an authentic Indian dinner - dining in an Indian family's home with cooking demo.