the maharajah sat.. and looked out

Our first day in Jaipur we set out with 'Usoup' for a self guided rickshaw tour of the city. First stop was the Hawa Mahal - or palace of the winds. Susan decided we should get a guide to actually learn something about the place whilst we photographed it so the first guy that came up to us said 100R ($2.50) to which the little lady asked her usual - BEST PRICE.. funnily enough the guy didn't go down.

So the tour started and we waited for the knowledge to start to flow to us.. and we waited .. and waited.. we did learn a couple of things:
there was a big hole in the ground - and the guide said - this was the maharajah's pool (you think?)

every window we went to (and there are 953 in total)our guide declared very proudly - THE MAHARAJAH SAT HERE .. and looked out - after a while Susan and I were laughing hysterically at the fact that all the maharajah seemed to do was sit and look out - with every one of our laughs, the guide would burst out laughing as well as if part of the joke.

Leaving the hawamahal next stop was jantar mantar via a deadly rickshaw drive which scared (and scarred) the beejeeebus out of us. Its apparently perfectly fine to go around a round about at ANY time, you just need to make sure you beep ALOT.

Hawa mahal





guess what?? the maharaja sat and looked out here..