Jaipur

After another early wake up by our friend cleaning his nose/throat or whatever he does when he makes vomiting noises we had a nice breakfast and soon after were on our way to Jaipur (the pink city). Fast forward about 2 or so hours and we arrived in Jaipur - which initially is not too pink at all! it’s a very busy city with about 4 million living here. We checked in and Sud took us to a restaurant for lunch where we ate way too much! (as usual) Afterwards we headed to the city palace (where a maharaja still lives) Just out the front of the palace is an observatory called Jantar Mantar, which had sundials and old tools used to work out where/how far celestial bodies are, it was all very confusing! I think you needed to be an astrologist to work it all out! Next we headed into the palace which was a little dodgy - no photos to be taken anywhere except from the outside where the guards constantly asked us to take photos with them, the first time we did and as soon as you were done “rupee, rupee” “tip, tip” we didn’t pay up as we never asked them to pose - they asked us, so we walked on and from then on refused all photos with any guards! The palace was actually really small, I think a lot of it was shut from the public as it looks a lot bigger from the outside. On the way out we passed a man sitting on the ground with musical instruments and were trying to get past without being asked for money, then I heard him say cobra and had a second look - he took the lid off his basket and 2 hissing cobra heads popped up! We took some photos then he asked me to sit next to him which I did, I think he saw I wasn’t too phased by them and then he told me to touch the back of the snakes head! Next thing I know he was putting the cobra around my neck! Bec got a fair few photos but wasn’t too eager to have a go herself so we tipped the man and were on our way. Made one last stop off at a jeweler looking for a certain gift and then headed home in the peak hour traffic which as always is crazy!! Tomorrow we will check out the Amber fort and hopefully go on an elephant ride!