Jenn and I woke up after having slept off and on for almost 12 hours.. I guess we needed that. Karni's wife is home today and she made us scrambled eggs for breakfast. They are both quite friendly.
We headed down to Mehrangarh Fort by tuk tuk. The fort was very pretty and we got to see the "blue city" from above.
Today, for the first time, we really experienced what it's like being white in India during the low-season. Everyone stared, many people stopped to say hello and ask where we're from and a few stopped to have their picture taken with us (we often say that they can take a picture if we can take one with our camera too). Apparently we're a pretty big deal here.
We went to On the Rocks for our first real East Indian meal. Although the food here is delicious, it's hard to eat much in all of this heat. Jenn and I have been saving money by sharing all the meals we order.
We then caught our bus to Jaipur. We thought that taking an air conditioned bus would be a relaxing way to travel for 6 hours. The bus itself was fine, but we're not convinced that people use deodorant here. The smell of 40-something sweaty men was pretty nauseating. Also, the driving in India is intense. Thailand was crazy, Cambodia was worse, but India is a whole new level of insanity. In India, honking the horn seems to mean "I'm bigger than you so move out of my way". Pedestrians yield to motorcycles, motorcycles yield to tuk tuks, tuk tuks yield to cars, etc., and EVERYONE yields to the giant Volvo bus we were in, which meant our driver was honking every 6 or 7 seconds. The roads were also pretty terrible, so we dodged a lot of obstacles along the way including many cows (they pretty much own the streets here), some occasional pigs, dogs, sheep, goats, and a couple of camels.
We got to a very monsoon-y Jaipur an hour behind schedule and our luggage that had been stowed in the compartment under the bus was wet from having driven through a number of lakes on the way. With the help of a kind man from Moscow (to translate our directions), and many more stops along the way (3 for 3 now of drivers not being able to read addresses or maps), we reached our accommodation at 11:30pm.
We headed down to Mehrangarh Fort by tuk tuk. The fort was very pretty and we got to see the "blue city" from above.
Today, for the first time, we really experienced what it's like being white in India during the low-season. Everyone stared, many people stopped to say hello and ask where we're from and a few stopped to have their picture taken with us (we often say that they can take a picture if we can take one with our camera too). Apparently we're a pretty big deal here.
We went to On the Rocks for our first real East Indian meal. Although the food here is delicious, it's hard to eat much in all of this heat. Jenn and I have been saving money by sharing all the meals we order.
We then caught our bus to Jaipur. We thought that taking an air conditioned bus would be a relaxing way to travel for 6 hours. The bus itself was fine, but we're not convinced that people use deodorant here. The smell of 40-something sweaty men was pretty nauseating. Also, the driving in India is intense. Thailand was crazy, Cambodia was worse, but India is a whole new level of insanity. In India, honking the horn seems to mean "I'm bigger than you so move out of my way". Pedestrians yield to motorcycles, motorcycles yield to tuk tuks, tuk tuks yield to cars, etc., and EVERYONE yields to the giant Volvo bus we were in, which meant our driver was honking every 6 or 7 seconds. The roads were also pretty terrible, so we dodged a lot of obstacles along the way including many cows (they pretty much own the streets here), some occasional pigs, dogs, sheep, goats, and a couple of camels.
We got to a very monsoon-y Jaipur an hour behind schedule and our luggage that had been stowed in the compartment under the bus was wet from having driven through a number of lakes on the way. With the help of a kind man from Moscow (to translate our directions), and many more stops along the way (3 for 3 now of drivers not being able to read addresses or maps), we reached our accommodation at 11:30pm.
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