Sunday : fine The room was great, but was so noisy with all the horns. So after the late night, noisy tractors at 3am then up at 6am I was not feeling great. That didn't matter because today we were off to see the Taj Mahal. We got driven as far as the Indian officials would let us. They have laws saying no petrol cars closer than 1km away, then we have to catch an electric car 700m, then walk the rest of the way to the entry. It's for protecting the taj from ...

Saturday : fine Well judging by that picture we got on a safari. But believe me it wasn't easy. The alarm went off and we followed the plan of getting up and being ready in the lobby by 4.45am and then drive to the ticket office. It was 5.15 by the time we left! Yudhvir slept in, we tried calling his phone three times. We didn't know where his room was, and the reception was closed, so we had to walk through the hotel to try and find him. We did and I got him...

Friday : sunny The sky was much clearer today, pity we weren't at the lookouts. We had a quick early breakfast, then we were on the road again. We stopped off at a temple, where our driver Yudhvir had his morning pray. It was interesting seeing the real deal, people hitting bells praying and going up and getting there Tika (the red dot on the forehead) but Yudhvir's was orange, not sure if it because he's male? We were only there for maybe 10-15 min, we got bac...

Thursday : fine It was a nice relaxing day in jaipur, we went into town for a walk around. We got to see the aftermath from the festival partying the night before. there was so much firework debris everywhere, it's going to take awhile to clean up this mess. Somehow I don't think it's on the top of the to do list, all the rubbish will probably eventually get swept into a pile and the burnt, or eaten by a pig or goat. We stopped to have a look at Hawa Mahal fr...

Wednesday : fine Much better sleep last night, the medicine seemed to do the trick. We were up early today, we are on the move to Jaipur. We had another good rooftop breakfast, packed up, checked out and met our driver in the lobby. Then we hit the road to 'the pink city' Rajasthan. Shane Warne is the Rajasthan royals captain, and Watson plays for them too. Today is the main day of Diwali, so HAPPY DIWALI!! We did some reading up on the festival, It's a nation...