January 9: Jaipur

We roll into Jaipur, the pink city, early and head off to the Amber Fort and palace. We get a guide who shows us the maharaja's secret entrances to the rooms of his 12 wives.


The next stop was the observatory with several large scale sundials. Astrology played (and maybe still does) an important role in Hinduism and was used to determine dates of matrimony and other important events and determine the compatibility for arranged marriages.

There is no way to describe the traffic and driving here. Every ride is death defyiing and painful. The horn is just as important as the brakes. And everyone in India must have severe hearing loss.