Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Jaipur

Uhh. Jaipur is messy. The traffic chokes the city. Marieke and me met up with Eric again, who of course took his bike. There are some walls visible in the city, but modern Indian life and garbage has made it impossible to say if you are standing inside of the ancient walls or outside. The best thing we did is to pay a very easy going elderly rickshaw driver 6 dollars for a day and he would bring us to all major sites in the proximity of the city. First we visited the Nazi "Adlerhorst" (eagles nest) which actually is a temple high on a hill. But the swastika sign was so big and visible on the main wall that it is difficult to think of it's actual meaning: "Evolution of the universe".
Afterwards we went to the prime show peace of Jaipur which is the Amber fort. Truly amazing in size and because of a huge artificial lake in front of it. Which had no water. But to walk these ancient walls was amazing by itself and is definitely worth a visit.
Then the rickshaw driver brought us to some souvenir shops to make an extra buck. Afterwards we visited the monkey palace. Monkeys were all over and playing in a small spring of water and jumping from high above into the refreshing water. Monkeys, pigs and dogs were fighting for food. Which ended up that monkeys were pulling on the tail of pig and a pig screaming so loud that the dogs didn't join the fight.
Then we all had to go are own ways. Erik to his retreat via hospital. Marieke stayed in the suburbs in Delhi with somebody she got to know in Tamil Nadu. And I tried to enjoy Delhi even though everybody is always cursing about Delhi.

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