Saturday, November 8, 2014

Riding elephants in Jaipur

AK and I rode an elephant today. A big one. Her name was Moti or Jewel in Hindi (not to be confused with Modi, the Indian prime minister). Such a lovely girl. She took us up to the top of the fort. The ride was as smooth as butter, if butter were being churned by a slow moving cement mixer. Check one off my bucket list :-) As a bonus we also rode on a camel, his name was Raja.

Moti the elephant & AK
The fort was beautiful. It's a lot of building for a single family dwelling. The only down side of our adventure was today was the really really annoying photo vendors. I hate being pestered to buy things I didn't ask for or want in the first place.

We also visited:

  • Palace of the winds
  • Palace on the water
  • Monkey temple (which smelly and sans monkey)
Tomorrow onward to Goa.

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