look ma no hands!

If it moves(or doesnt) then it is roadworthy! I have no idea what this contraption is but these two youngsters were taking a leisurely drive. I wonder where the license discs go...

Smoggy Air

The Smog can get quite bad, or maybe this goes well with the fashionable socks & sandals

Vegsellers

Your local street grocer

Kids taking the school bus

This is a typical 8 seater school bus!

Hawa Mahal

Hawa which actually means wind and is a word that is shared among a few languages actually forms the root of the name Hawaii – as one can see from the leaning palm trees which got their curves from the “hawa”

The reason why it is called hawa mahal is because of its many many windows, the really cool people where counting the windows from the outside but we just paid somebody 20rupees to do that for us, when I go back in 3 years he will have my figure ready! The hawa mahal is situated within walking distance of the city palace, but if you are lazy there are many tuktuks for your convenience.

City Palace

City Palace is situated in the central pink area of Jaipur, there was a snake charmer on the outside and a school for kids adjoining, inside you could see a puppet show, some of the armour which is displayed in the shape of flowers, the Maharajas fleet of wagon and a few giant water jars.

Cinderllas Cart

The Rolls Royce of the times

4091 litre silver jar(even thought it looks gold) was made from coins melted down, and filled with water from the ganges on the trips of Maharajas to England, probably because the water in England is so bad and they didnt want to have ugly teeth!

 Dont be misled the papar on this guys head is like paper, it is very light and will not mess his hairdo! He seemed surprised that i didnt want to purchase some.

This is not a photography course but if you look closely then you can get a few pointers on how to raise your feet and hands and angles required to take photos!

The Pink City

Jaipur is also known as the pink city, because one day the owner of largest paint manufacturing plant was away on holiday and since all his staff was too drunk from fermented palm sap, they decided to make their boss happy by gathering all the stray monkeys at the time and asked them to take charge. The monkeys worked diligently at their jobs and were duly rewarded in banana payment.

When the owner returned he was furious to see that there were a million gallons of paint in his stock all the colour pink! As charitable as Indians are, he went to the king for help, and after 8 cups of masala tea the king decided he will purchase all the paint. Incidentally some prince from Britain was due to visit that week and as witty as Indians are, they decided to give a gift to the prince that would benefit them more than the prince(Its sorta like giving your wife a recipe book only so that she can make scrumptious meals for you at dinner). So the king ordered the city be painted pink and honoured to this visiting British Prince and thats how we have the pink area!