Jaipur

I know you have been all wondering where my posts went so here I am! I'm sorry for the delay, I went away this weekend to Jaipur.

This weekend was really fun and informational as well as tiring and long. We woke up at around 4:00am to take a 6:00am train to Jaipur. I was really excited to go there because I heard lots of good things about the sights in the area.

Unfortunately, we missed the "kite festival" by a few days but we could see tons of kites hanging from trees and it must be a windy season because tons of kids were flying kites, something you don't ever see in Delhi.

When we finally arrived, we were approached by a rickshaw driver that said he would drive us around the city to sightsee for really cheap, adding up to about $2 each. We decided that was a good deal and agreed to it.

He drove us to our hostel (as seen above), which was gorgeous and we just relaxed there for a bit before getting picked up. He came and took us to a few of the sights and we were extremely amazed by them. First we stopped at the "pink city" which is painted all pink and took a few pictures. After that, we went to the outskirts of a palace that was open and then drove to what is called the "water palace". It's really just a palace that got flooded in the monsoon season and is now under some water. It looked really amazing. The picture at the top is me at my future home (the first mentioned palace and yes I am very excited lol)... After he got really weird and kept trying to take us shopping to places where he knew the owners, he was obviously getting a cut of the money or something.. we got frustrated and told him that we were done with him for the day and just walked around.

Later we went to a restaurant that revolved in a circle in the skyline so you can see the entire city, it was fun. We also got wine and had a drink while talking on the roof of the hostel and then called it a night because we had to wake up early the next day.

On Sunday we went to a place called Jantar Mantar (seen above). This is a place I would definitely recommend, it was just amazing. It is a bunch of astronomical instruments kept in one place that calculate things that have to do with the sun. I mean, I can't even explain many of them but the biggest sun dial in the world is there. Look at the link I posted.

After that we went to the City Palace. I decided that I will eventually move in there because with the little we saw, it just felt like home! In all seriousness, it was gorgeous and I learned a lot about India's past.

We were really tired but we went on a hunt to find the Minaret, which you can climb to the top of and see a 360 degree view of the city. GORGEOUS. The walk up there was very tiring but definitely worth it.

Then we went back to the hostel and relaxed in the sun until it was time for our train ride back!!!

And that... was my weekend!

I leave you with a beautiful view of Jaipur, I climbed a million stairs to get there so you better enjoy it!