Jaipur

From Jodhpur we headed to Jaipur Markless. Jaipur turned out to be a really eventfull stop with lots to see. Bike rickshaws were more common here than in previous cities visited so we thought we would give one a shot. You really end up feeling sorry for these guys because they really are working it in the heat. Especially pulling Paul and myself being that we are definitely bigger than the average Indian.

The old Pink City is probably what Jaipur is most famous for. This older part of Jaipur was great for just walking around an exploring at your own pace.

While walking through the Pink City a man approached Paul and just started talking to him. This is very common in India basically everywhere and 90% of the time the person is just trying to sell you something. As it turns out this guy was a University student in the town that had just finished his final exams for the semester and had nothing to do. He offered to show us around the city as a tour guide for free and in exchange we would be helping him with his english. He was a good guy so it worked out really well for the group of us.

The Monkey temple was probably the coolest thing that we got so see in Jaipur. This temple just outside the city was completely overrun with monkeys everywhere.

The Temple involved a series of pools that men, women and monkeys would all bath in. Just in case you were wondering the colours in this picture are correct the pools were quite green. I tried to trick Paul into going for a swim but no dice.

Apparently goats can jump pretty high, I did not know that.

Floating Temple

Amber Fort

Our friend ended up taking us to this Elephant temple which for a small donation we could get up and close to about 6 elephants. It made for some pretty good pics.

The last thing we ended up seeing in Jaipur was this fort atop a mountain overlooking the whole city. The view did not disappoint.

We ended up arriving at the fort just around the time that it was closing for the day. In order to get inside and check out the amazing view from the top one of the workers insisted the we bribe him. 10 Rupees ($0.25) was what he was after and we obliged on condition that we could document it.

Funniest picture from India so far.