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En route to Jaipur

August 5th, 2008 | Posted by Davey in 02-India - (1 Comments)

Having exhausted ourselves visiting the sites of Delhi, it was time to move onto Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, aka The Pink City.  It was a nerve racking 7hrs dodging and weaving  the oncoming traffic, animals and potholes, but we made it!  Will probably write more on this topic in our summing up of India. 

We pulled into a service station to grab a bit to eat and there was a little girl (pic 4) busking, if we can call it that – it was so funny. We have a video but we cannot upload it because of the slow internet speed here.  The two boys in the 4th picture were begging for money, instead we gave them a large packet of biscuits, you would have though they had won the lottery, they scampered off jumping and screaming with joy – very moving – you want to give them the cloths off your back.

We will have many stories and videos of our travels that we will share with you on our return.

A few snaps of our journey:

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Yesterday we had a long day touring the many sites of New and Old Delhi.  We went to the official tourist office, as recommended by the lonely planet (approx. 1,000 unofficial) where we hired a car and guide for 5 days and booked our train tickets to Nepal, all for £180 – bargain.

Sam and I are not big on tourist sites and this long day definitely confirmed it – the expense, queues, security, no photos at many etc. etc. – at least we made the effort and have some half decent pictures in which to remember India.  I was going to write the names and a description of each site, but frankly they are not really that interesting.

Hopefully we will get to see rural India on our tour of the golden triangle (Delhi, Jaipur and Agra).

The Red Fort UNESCO World Heritage Site #2

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