Up, breakfast, bus and heading for Jaipur before you even know it. It was a fairly quick and efficient 4.5 hrs on the bus until we arrived here. The Hotel here, the 4 Points Sheraton is great, the best we’ve had so far I think.
We had lunch, checked into our rooms, had about an hour before we were back on the bus and heading for a bit of sightseeing. We drove through the old town, which is, I think, just beautiful…all paired in ocre with stunning markets all over the place with things that you just want to get your hands. But we were on a sightseeing mission. First we went to the Mantar Jantar like the one we went to in Delhi…an observatory with these amazing buildings/ instruments that told the time to within 2 seconds…how the hell did they work that out?? Among so many things that were stark reminders of how they had worked out how the planets worked way ahead of their time.
Then we went to the City Palace, home to Maharajas and frequented by the Mountbattens. Here parts of the palace had been converted to museums that displayed the textiles, embroidery and clothes of the maharajas in one and the weaponry in the other. Then we went to the splendid stateroom of the palace, no photos allowed but I tried to sneak one(or two), in tribute to the splendour but was humiliated by being sprung and having to publicly delete the photos…oh dear!!
Then we went to a jewellery making factory with its fabulous sapphires, rubies and emeralds. Way out of my league…besides I was too tired to shop!!
We came back to the hotel but had to go to a supermarket to get tonic, have our PD G&T and then fly down for a late dinner at the hotel. Sally isn’t feeling well tonight so tucked herself up into bed without having dinner.
Time for me to hit the hay now. Lots of love everyone XXXX