Jaipur: Cows, Camels, and Elephants oh my!

Jaipur is know as the pink city because the old city was all painted pink many years ago for the kings visit, it's been that way since!  Our driver took us to two places today.  The amber fort, which is a palace fort in the mountains behind the city and later the city palace.  While cows walking around in the streets has become a very common sight on this trip, we noticed two different animals that are not so common in a city...camels and elephants?  Not to mention there's monkeys jumping around on roof tops in the old city!  What an interesting city this is :). The fort was amazing, large walls off in the distance all around and beautiful marble carvings and paintings.  We even found a cafe coffee day on the way out of the fort!! These places pop up in the strangest places...but dad and I were happy for a cool and tasty break :p. After the coffee break we found a cobra charmer that I got to get a few pics and some vid with!! Check for a separate post...had tech difficulties in this one ><   I'll have to post a bunch of pics on my photo bucket page, but here are a few.


Long Shot of the Palace

Walls in the distance

I liked this shot of the palace with the crossing stairs...

Elephant! They were used to carry the lazy tourists to the top of the fort...

Camels?

We also went to the royal palace here...though I didn't take any pics, my dad got a few...one of the neatest thing there...in my opinion was the weapons museum.  They had a large collection of guns, swords and the like!  Large guns that were mounted on elephants and camels (more like cannons!)   And my favorite, katars!  There was even a katar thAt had two small pistols attached to it!  Super cool!  They also have the worlds largest silver objects two giant silver vase that were made when the king of Jaipur traveled to england in 1902 for holding water from the Ganges river (holy water for bathing with every day why away from home).  The vase both come to 5 feet 3 inches and each hold about 900 gallons of water!! After leaving the palace we crossed the street to a really neat outdoor observatory with many intestine astronomical apparatus, very advanced for being built between 1728-1734.  One of which is the worlds largest sun dial!!  Sadly there was no sun while we were there...infect after a while it started to rain, so we headed out on foot throughout the old city.  Tons of shops along the street and very interesting sights, we were looking for a special lasi place to finally get a mango lasi, but sadly we had no clue where we were, let alone where the lasi place was, so we eventually headed back to the hotel to rest up a bit before heading out to dinner. We went to a great dinner place...but ater dinner dad had spoted an ice cream place just next door...Mango Sunday??? YES PLEASE!!! What a great day...tomorrow is our last day in Jaipur, but we've got til like 2pm before we need to head to the airport so explore a bit more we shall!

More on down the road :)