Aladdin's adventure in Jaipur

“Palace of Winds”

Famous market?

Busy street in the Pink City

Does this look pink to you?

And you have noticed that the buildings are not pink, but red brown so a more appropriate name would have been the red brown city. They had painted the city pink hundreds of years ago.

Anyway, we stop to take a picture of the “Palace of Winds” I get out of the car and I discover a leather shop. I buy a belt and snap a few pictures. So we can remove the famous market from the list to do

I got a new belt and a picture of the “Palace of Winds” out of our visit to the pink city. Next stop the City Palace and Jantar Mantar, the observatory. And believe me, I have no intentions to spend very much time there

Buying a ticket to the Jantar Mantar

They are not even embarrassed to charge foreigners 4 times more

At the Jantar Mantar

Words biggest sundial

Time to leave Jantar Mantar

Snake-charmers and...

Tröttaste par ormar jag har sett

... ice cream vendors. Can it get any better?

Yes, I spotted a Eurasian Collared Dove in a tree when we left!

Eurasian Collared Dove

We had finished the Jantar Mantar observatory. There were a lot of different sundials from 300 years ago. I told my Guide that I wanted to skip the City Palace just next to the Jantar Mantar observatory. I suggested that we should go to the Amber Palace and we can put this behind us.

Yeah, we're kicking arse and we have already put most of the items on the sight-seeing trip behind us. Looks like we will have almost a full day off tomorrow. Amber sun and light show was planned for tonight, but I decided to do this tomorrow evening instead.

Amer Fort

(Hindi: आमेर क़िला, also spelled and pronounced as Amber Fort and Amber Palace) is located in Amer, a town with an area of 4 square kilometres (1.5 sq mi) located 11 kilometres from Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India. Located high on a hill, it is the principal tourist attractions in the Jaipur area.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nahargarh Fort

Nahargarh Fort stands on the edge of the Aravalli Hills, overlooking the pink city of Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The view of the city from the fort is impressive.

Along with Amer Fort and Jaigarh Fort, Nahargarh once formed a strong defence ring for the city. The fort was originally named Sudarshangarh, but it became known as Nahargarh, which means 'abode of tigers'.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We took off for the Amer Fort and we drove up to the parking place and I had a few pictures. I never bothered to get in to the fort. When we drove here I could see two other fort next to the Amer Fort. Turned out to be the Nahargarh Fort and the Jaigarh Fort. Nahargarh Fort was on our “list of things to see” for tomorrow.

And Nahargarh Fort was the fort I could see from the Pink City. I asked my Driver and Guide if we could reach the forts on the mountain ridge by car. Motherfoocker, we are really kicking arse here and we will complete everything on our “list of things to see” in Jaipur in one day.

OK, the Amber sound and light show will be saved for tomorrow night. Something exciting to look forward to.

I get out of the car to get a picture of the Amer Fort

We can see the Jaigarh Fort on the left side above the Amer Fort

I think the Amer city wall is 18 km long - It was impressing to see

The elephants are going home for today

We could see some of the elephants when they are going home for today. If you are going to visit the Amer Fort you can go by foot, by elephant or drive up to the parking lot.

The elephant tour was included in my tour but as I don't want to support elephants in capture I told them that I didn't wanted to ride any elephants. Yeah, I know, I was riding the elephants in Africa.

These elephants were saved from another national parks and they were living in the free with the other elephants. They came “home” and they were busy with the morning safari eating peanuts before going back to play with their friends in the forest again.

Same in Thailand, I never buy food for the elephants on the street, thinking about it. I have not seen any elephants in Bangkok for a very long time now. Any way, if they don't make any money from this they will have to stop.

More of the wall

The wall was very impressive and I had a few pictures from the parking lot at the Amer Fort. We left Amer Fort, or the parking lot at the Amer Fort after 4 minutes and next stop will be the Nahargarh Fort.

We drove down from the Amer Fort and we drove past the Amer town and lake and there was a road going up the mountain to the Nahargarh Fort. When we were on the top we passed a road with a sign saying Jaigarh Fort. Good, we can take that fort on the way down and we had covered pretty much everything

Jaigarh Fort

(Rajasthani/Hindi: जयगढ़ क़िला) is situated on the promontory called the Cheel ka Teela (Hill of Eagles) of the Aravalli range; it overlooks the Amber Fort and the Maota Lake, near Amber in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The fort was built by Jai Singh II in 1726 to protect the Amber Fort and its palace complex and was named after him.

We had to pass through a very narrow gate to get in to the Nahargarh Fort. We passed the gate and I got out of the car when we reached the parking lot. I was rewarded with a beautiful view over Jaipur.

I walked around the area and I had a few pictures from the parking place before we drove to the other side of the Nahargarh Fort where I could see the rest of Jaipur and the Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake. Good, we can remove Jal Mahal from our “list of things to see”

On the way to Nahargarh Fort

On the way to Nahargarh Fort - It is a darn big city

The city wall surrounds the Amer Town and all 3 forts

Gate to the Jaigarh Fort - I stayed on the parking lot

Jaipur from the other side of the Nahargarh Fort

We can see that it is a huge city

We are high up on the mountain

Even though we're high up on the mountain I can still hear the noise from the town. And the air is very polluted and I can't wait to get back to the jungle for some safari

I had a few pictures and I went down a bit on the small road to have a look. The small road was built for the soldiers. When the fort was attacked they would have sent down the soldiers on this road.

We were soon back in the car to drive back on the ridge. We have to pass not only the Jaipur - Nahargarh Fort

narrow gate, but also a very narrow bridge good for one car at the time only.

Believe me, it was golden comedy! The bridge have room for one car and when we reached the bridge there were 4 cars beside each other trying to cross the bridge.

4 cars beside each other and one car trying to make it across towards us. It was a shindy at least to say. I was in the back seat screaming of laughter and my driver told me that it was not necessary to attend any driving school to get a driving license.

I told him that it wasn't necessary with any school to figure this out. A 5 years old would have figured this out. You see things on the roads here that you just can't believe. It is 2016 and sometimes it is like 1716 around here.

We managed to pass the bridge and I asked the driver to stop the car on the ridge so I could get a picture of the Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake.

Golden comedy - 2, well, yeah, trying to cross a bridge

Jaipur - Jal Mahal in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake

Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") in the middle of the Man Sagar Lake

Flying the kites

We make a quick stop to have a look at the Jaigarh Fort

We leave the area and the last picture of Jaigarh Fort

We had covered three forts in a record breaking time and we drove back to Jaipur City. Next item on my “list of things to do” is to find big plasters for the wound on my left leg.

Yet another Smiley on www.aladdin.st

Our Guide suggested a few place but they didn't had any plasters. We made a few stops and I suggested that we should go to the hospital as I suspected that it worked like on the Philippines.

When you go to the hospital you have to buy everything you need at a medical store on town. So there must be medical stores around the hospital and I can buy my surgical plasters.

I found what I needed and we were going back to the hotel. Our Guide let us and he said that he would not come tomorrow as we had finished everything.

Medical supply store in Jaipur

We make a last fruitless try to find drinks before we return to the hotel

OK, it has come to my knowledge that we have senior citizens visiting my web page. How hard can it be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page.

Jiffy (also jiff)

noun [in SING.] informal a moment: we'll be back in a jiffy.

ORIGIN late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.

So as you understand, in a jiff pretty much depends on your internet.

So I put a “Next” button here and I hope that there isn't any problem to understand how to use that one. So just CLICK the “Next” button on your left hand side and you will be on the next page in a jiff!

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