Jaipur - Pink City 30-31 Mar

This is the last stop of our Rajasthan travel. After 3 cities of forts, palaces and more forts..we are a little saturated with them probably cos we have covered most of the impressive ones. hehe. 


As Jaipur is one of the India golden triangle destinations for travelling, we noticed the difference when we arrived. Alot more tourists than other places that we have visited so far and we even met a few group of mainland Chinese tours! Alot more touts and things  generally more expensive than other places...


Take a look at our 2 days pics..

Arriving at day break after a long overnight train..tired..

 

Here's why they call it pink city. cos all buildings are  in this colour..

 After leaving our luggage at the hotel, we headed out to Amber Fort..Isn't it impressive?

This is another fort behind Amber Fort. It has the World's largest cannon on wheels that Jeff must see.

In Jaipur, elephants on the road too!!

Monkeys fighting with Pigeon for food..

That's what the elephants are for! Lazy tourists who dun want to walk up Amber fort! Cheapo backpackers like us walked up with local tourists to save the money. hehe

(we were quite happy to see so many tourists since we have arrived in India.)

One of the few nice rooms in the fort. There are glasses all over the walk and that traps heat for night time. Smart!

their rooms in the past...

Views of Amber town from the fort. See how the water has dried up.

We went into the tunnel that connects the amber fort to the fort at the back..lots of bats!!

That's the tiny hole bats go thru!

Man and cannon

That's what we laboriously walked up the steep slope for 25 mins for! Impressive? 

Largest cannon (on wheels) can shoot as far as 35 km. According to Jeff, it's from Tuas to Changi so he has to see what it looks like!

So we decided to make our walk worth it..and walked around the empty fort...found a nice garden..

View of amber fort and the surroundings..

here's the zig zag steep slope that we walked up..for the largest cannon. Guys, totally not worth it if you are intending to visit if u ever come to Jaipur. (now we understood why tourist only went Amber fort and not this fort!!! we should have just followed the other tourists..)

elephant jams...

if u need a closer look. 

Front - Amber fort. 

Back - Kum fort with the largest cannon (on wheels!)

there's a water palace in Jaipur too!

 View of pink city from Monkey palace.

 just couldn't resist taking this pic. the little girl was to cute holding on..

 

 A more impressive Hawa mahal where Royal families women in the past watch streets events..(we din go in..)

 

 Jaipur city palace - we din go too since have visited the other bigger ones..hehe

 

 Children were happy to see us and told their friends to come along to see us! so funny!

 

 Our auto rickshaw broke down! (thk cos jeff was too heavy...) hahah

 Dedicated to those fools fans...

 We were happy to find pizza hut!! yummy and really cheap! Ate our fill for less than S$8 in total!

Investment made instead of visits to palaces..haha..(totally worth it!) they are gg to be sent back home..haaha