jaipur

we arrived in the pink city very early in the morning. much to her disappointment, alex had caught fleas on the bus. we spent the morning sightseeing around the city palace - the maharajah of rahjastan still lives there. our favourite place was jantar mantar, a ye olde astronomy/astrology centre. below you can see a giant sundial which is accurate to 2 seconds. stylish, but slightly larger than the average seiko.the shadow in this picture shows what astrology sign we are in from the markings on the marble (pisces, my birthday is only two days away!)

we enjoyed a delicious giant rajahstani thali for lunch, and then went home and ramsey quite wastefully threw it up. the next day we walked up to naheranga fort and then took a rickshaw out to the old city and amber fort. it was very beautiful. it seems our guide enjoyed using ramsey's camera and insisted that he take many photos for us. back in the day, the maharajah's wife wore an excesive amount of heavy jewellery and had to be carried around by four eunuchs.

later in the day we caught a bus to agra (home of the taj mahal).