Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Palace Hotel -Udaipur!!!  So unbelievable!!!!

Laundry day by the lake...

Our hotel...spectacular!

Sunset boat cruise on the lake in a Udaipur


The King's Pleasure a Palace!!!


Preparing for New Year's

Pleasure Palace

A view of Udaipur...

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Can you beat that ?????


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Happy New Year!!!!


More cow patties...people need fuel!




Monday, December 30, 2013

Ride to the room!



Block printing


Elephant trek!!!!


Cutting gem stones

So relaxing!!!


Random cow and water pump


Amber Fort - Maharajah 1680

Palace of Windows...where the queen would watch her subjects

Amber Fort

Water cooling system!

Inside the fort...from the maharajah 's bedroom


View from the window where the women in the harem could watch what was happening in the palace









Sunday, December 29, 2013


Jaipur and it's environs!!!

Dinner with Vikrum and his family!

Majarajah Singh's Palace












Marble Elephant in front of 
palace




Observatory - Majarajah Jai Singh -1700's

Village life







Cow patties!!!!


Fatipur-abandoned city of Akbar the Great !!!








Saturday, December 28, 2013

Shopping in the Agra marketplace!

Carving on white marble with precious and semi-precious stone in-lays

"Little Taj" - Itimad-Ud-Daulah

In-lays at Little Taj

Hmm...random bull...

Agra marketplace

Making a s
weet donut like treat



Papaya




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Me...and look at what's behind me!!!!!








Firewood




Indian kiwi!!!


The Taj Mahal



Traffic jam...stuck behind
 cars, buses...and a oxcart!
Just holding up the Taj for a moment!








The top of the Taj


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The Taj in all it's splendor

Laundry time by the river