India is divided into states, and each time we passed by one, the driver stopped and paid a toll. Rural India consists of people of low houses that dot the road, nearly all without lights, and the road also appears to be the town's main artery. The technique is slow at the entrance of the village will plant two hurdles on the road, in the form of an arrowhead. Then enters a market, throughout the town, which sells everything and stopping places where truck drivers stop their trucks Tata along with the camels, and sit on makeshift stools at the door of a bar for refreshments. All trucks are tuned in a very characteristic, with bands and curtains, and hand-painted sign that reads "Horn Please" (Pete, please.) And this is how, in fact, occur in India overtaking, the car arrives, it hits all you can, pita, and the truck or whatever, they'll slowly to one side (right or left, it gives equal). Apart from people, you can also find small shrines to Hindu gods. The land is dry. No water is visible, or looks very little. Our first destination is
Samode, a Maharaja's palace, where he lived with his Maharajaní (his wife), and about fifty or a hundred concubines. Today it is a hotel, and kept in good been a handful of units and rooms, richly furnished and decorated with frescoes and engravings, furniture finished in silver and antique rugs, and why you walk like he owned the place.
The next destination was the city of Jaipur, the Pink City. So called because all the houses are pink (though many are falling to pieces). There are two distinct Jaipur: ancient and modern. Jaipur is the new wide avenues and modern buildings such as shopping malls and hotel complexes (like ours) insurgent strongholds middle of nowhere. The old Jaipur is a walled, with several narrow doors where traffic flows (such as) in both directions. Jaipur have to see the Palace of Winds, and the Maharaja's Palace museum in Jaipur. The Palace of Winds is a small palace with lots of small windows. No one can enter, only seen from the outside.
The other visit is the Palace Museum, or rather a room annex to the present abode of the Maharaja of Jaipur. On the way he ran into a stereotype out of a comic Mortadelo: a snake charmer with his basket, his flute, his turban and snake. Unfortunately I did not have time to take pictures (other than that you ask for money for the picture, of course).
On the outskirts of Jaipur, we were taken on a visit to Amber Fort, a fortress on a mountain, former residence of Maharajas (with wives and concubines included). Up to the castle is done on elephant back, in a climb up the ramp to the castle, which is a veritable procession of elephants with tourists, ending in a large courtyard. Amber Fort Palace is divided into several units, with architectural and decorative elements very characteristic style blending Hindu Muslim influence, using materials ranging from red sandstone to white marble. There is a court hearing with elegant columns topped by elephants holding lotus flowers, and a gazebo with marble columns and arches Islamic style. Inside we see the palace, which is organized around a rectangular garden divided into four sections with a fountain in the center, and a wing with a courtyard or four isolated corners, one for each of the four official wives.
Our next destination we neared the end of the trip: Fathepur Sikri, Agra, the Taj Mahal and Red Fort . In the next and final delivery.
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