Jaipur, India

Once we left New Delhi, we traveled to Jaipur which was one of my favorite cities. I mentioned earlier in my blog that Jaipur is considered by some to be the most beautiful city in India. Well beauty is in the eyes of the beholder! This is the very old part of the city. It was once completely surrounded by a wall that had nine gates. Some of the gates are still standing and the traffic drives through them. The city is known for its color. It is referred to as "the pink city"; however, the color is really terra cotta. But once the reddish brown color begins to fade it does have a pinkish tint to it. The first photo is a picture of the old downtown. Here again, the traffic is very light. Notice the pink color of the buildings. The second photo is one of two snake charmers. Yes, the actually do exist! They play their musical instruments and open up the baskets and out come the cobras. These were on the sidewalk when our bus drove up. We all got out as quickly as possible to take photos. One of our ladies, Rita, actually let one of the charmers put a real live cobra around her neck. She said it took the rest of the day to get her heart rate back to normal! The last photo is a scene so common in Jaipur. Everywhere you look you see camels and elephants pulling carts or carrying all kinds of things on their backs. We saw so many of them that finally we stopped taking photos!

Larry