We started today visiting the Jantar Mantar observatory, the biggest of 5 built by Jai Singh II and immaculately looked after! It was an incredible place, built between 1728 and 1734 with 16 instruments, some of which are still accurate enough to use regularly today. The Unnatansha Yantra was used to determine the positions of stars and planets at any time of the day and night. There were two sunken marble hemispheres in the floor which mapped out the heavens, an...

After a lovely lakeside breakfast we set off to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan and Pink City. Being the biggest city in the north after Delhi, it was a big change coming from Pushkar into a bustling city with lots of beggars, dust and of course a MacDonalds! We firstly met our lovely tour guide Eugene Prem who was really passionate about everything in his country, and set off visit the Amber Fort, just out of town. It was a magnificent fort set in the mountains...