Jaipur

Well what a day! Started at about 740, had breakfast and then headed out at 830 to beat the traffic. On our way we stopped off at a beautiful building called Hawa Mahal to quickly take some photos, next we headed to at the Amber Fort where we again quickly got out to take some photos and met a man with a baby elephant, we took a few photos with the elephant and got to give it a pat - the elephant also liked shaking my hand with his trunk! It was very cute. Then we headed into the fort where we got our elephant ride up the hill to the fort entrance. Again another lovely building which was huge and very open, you could pretty much walk anywhere and nothing was shut off, we spent a good 3 or so hours exploring the many passageways and admiring the views. Then we headed back to the car and Sud drove us further up the mountain to the defensive fort above called Nahargarh Fort, this building is home to the worlds largest cannon mounted on wheels, the thing was massive and is rotated by 2 elephants - it has never been used in combat but was test fired once and many of the soldiers who were present went deaf afterwards, to fire it used 100 kgs of gunpowder and the cannon ball was 50 kgs. After exploring the fort we headed to another textile factory where they showed us how they dye the fabrics and showed us their workrooms where they turn the fabric into works of art! Then we headed back to the jewelry shop from yesterday to pick up an item we were getting made but they ended up having trouble with it so it didn’t get made! There is an older man who owns the jewelry shop who is also an aura reader? Psychic? Anyway Sud had told us he was good and I wanted to try it so we gave it a go. Long story short - lesson learnt don’t go to a Psychic in India because it will freak you out! First he started by asking me how old I was and he had a calculator where he had typed in a number and then I told him and he would show us his number which was correct, he also did this with my birth date, then he started going into some more full on stuff! He was pretty spot on with most things and told us what ailments we are likely to get/already have and sold us both stones to wear which is meant to help with our problems (we will see how that goes). After being properly freaked out we headed back home for dinner at a nearby hotels restaurant which Sud recommended and then back to our room. Tomorrow we head off to Ranthambore for our safari and Jungle me mangle! ( a local saying which means anything goes in the jungle!)