Breakfast on the lawn of our hotel...Today was our last day in Jaipur. Tomorrow we head back to Delhi where we have one full day before we all fly out our seperate ways. It's hard to believe this is all coming to an end.
Yesterday morning we headed out of the city to the Amber Fort, a big old fort on the top of a hill. 
Pretty scenery, some good pictures, but mostly we decided we are done with forts. Then we did some shopping. One notable purchase - when Mom was in India in 1970 she bought 2 silver bangles, one for each wrist, and has worn then ever since (well, to be fair one had to come off when she broke her arm in 1980. But the other has been on since 1970, and even the one that came off hasn't been off since). Yesterday at a small jewelry store off of MI road I bought my own silver bangles. I can't promise they'll stay on eternally - I don't know how doing the Locust asana is going to feel with bracelets on - but I do feel like I have achieved some small right of passage - the journey to India, marked by the silver bracelets.
Pretty scenery, some good pictures, but mostly we decided we are done with forts. Then we did some shopping. One notable purchase - when Mom was in India in 1970 she bought 2 silver bangles, one for each wrist, and has worn then ever since (well, to be fair one had to come off when she broke her arm in 1980. But the other has been on since 1970, and even the one that came off hasn't been off since). Yesterday at a small jewelry store off of MI road I bought my own silver bangles. I can't promise they'll stay on eternally - I don't know how doing the Locust asana is going to feel with bracelets on - but I do feel like I have achieved some small right of passage - the journey to India, marked by the silver bracelets.
Today we wandered some of the bazaars in the old city - first some of the tourist shops, and then the Johari Bazaar section (traditional indian jewelry) and then we went back to the Hawa Mahal to go inside - the last time we just took photos from the outside. In the afternoon we enjoyed a traditional indian snack - lassi, a yogurt drink, from the very popular Lassiwala on MI Road. This evening our driver drove us about a half an hour out of the city to a place called Chokhi Dhani... quite an experience. It was like a county fair for Indian people... medival times meets six flags meets Epcot Center meets India. We stood in line for at least 20 minutes to get in and then wandered around in dust past little huts 
and buildings featuring a variety of different indian dancers, fortune tellers, magicians, shops, games, etc... there were camel and elephant rides (long lines for both) and Mom and I got our palms hennaed. The highlight was dinner - traditional rajhistani food - we were given a silver tray and walked down a buffet line getting little leaf bowls of different traditional rajasthan foods. We had pretty much no idea 
what we were eating but most of it was totally delicious.
what we were eating but most of it was totally delicious. 
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