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A-4, Shastri Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302016, India
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A festival celebrated around Holi, great occasions for the visitor, to watch several elephant sports and enjoy the festival of colours. A magnificent spectacle, it unveils the majesty and grandeur of elephants. A royal procession of sixty elephants in their best finery, a match of elephant polo and an elephant race are main events of the festival.
My hotel bedroom in Jaipur had ffour beautiful Indian paintings grouped together on one wall. It was clear that they were originals, and to me it looked as though they were antiques because of the paper they were painted on. I loved them and looked at them every day.
You can therefore imagine my delight when we drove from Jaipur to Delhi and my driver stopped at a little roadside shack of a shop which sold every sort of thing - including some of these paintings! It turns out that they are painted by modern artists on reconstituted very aged paper. I managed to buy two and now I have them proudly hanging in my hall.
Here are photos of each of them for you to enjoy. These paintings were pretty inexpensive, but look a million dollars.
The 'Palace of the Winds' is well advertised in many tourist brochures, however, it's only when you get to Jaipur you realise it's only a facade and inside, there's nothing really to see. The rooms inside are empty and basically everything is whitewashed. That said, for the grand price of 10 rupees (15 English pence) to get inside and the views I got over the city, I was not complaining. The third photo is from the top of the Palace of the Winds towards the main palace astronomical observatory, used by the Rajputs in the past to make their most important decisions. Many decisions were not made in India either by the Hindu Maharajas or the Muslim Moguls without consulting the stars first - they were very big astrology buffs.
This observatory was begun in 1728 by the Maharajah Jai Singh II and was one of five, the others at Delhi, Varanasi, Ujjain, and Mathura.
As for the 'Lake Palace' (second photo), not the Palace in the Lake as found elsewhere in Rajasthan I'm afraid, but near enough to get a flavour of the real thing.
What a stunning place. We stopped on the way by the lake to take pictures of the reflection of the fort in the water. There were elephants bathing!
Take an elephant ride up to the fort and be sure to smile for the many photographers who take your photo on the way up. you will be able to buy these either at the top or in the car park. Once up there it is easy to get away from the hoards and take a moment to reflect on what life must have been like.
Jantar Mantar at Jaipur is the largest astronomical stone observatory in the World. It was built between 1727 to 1733 by built by Maharaja Jai Singh, the founder of Jaipur. Originally it was named as Yantra Mantra (which means instruments and formulae) but due to mispronunciation of the same the name got changed to the Jantar Mantar. Despite its age, it still provides accurate information about celestial bodies and can be well compared with modern instruments. It is constructed with stone and marble. The observatory measures time, predicts eclipses and other astronomical events. Jantar Mantar was declared a national monument of India in 1948. It is right in front of the City Palace entrance.
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