Wednesday, May 7, 2008

May 3rd

These posts are a little behind, since we didn't have internet for a few days. Blah. So, here goes the effort at a mass update...

We hired a SWEET luxury black SUV from the Hilton to drive us around on our last day in Jaipur. 

We started the day shopping... the jewellery market we wanted was closed, so we went to malls and other markets. We got saris and jewellery and pashminas... great shopping adventure. After le shopping, we went to visit the Amber Fort, which was way up a mountain. Jaipur itself is in the province of Rajisthan, which is super hella hot to begin with, so the fort was pretty rough-- but amazing. We also went up another giant hill to a fort that overlooked all of Jaipur. It was an incredible scene, and made up for the vom-causing goat path we had to travel to get there. We then hit up the  train station, got a little heatstroke, and waited for the perpetually late train. Eventually, we got back to Delhi to find the worst hotel on earth awaited us-- Lonely Planet lies. So we spent the night in this total dive (though, bug free...). 

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