The title is true in many ways I am back on this page with my little posts, I am back in Europe and even in Hungary. I have this old-fashioned attitude that I like to follow a chronological order, so first of all I would like to dedicate this post to my last days in India. So... after I completed my Delhi-plan I went to Behror to visit Natacha. She had been living with Chris, Martina and Matis. I spent the weekend with them trying also to convince a South-Korean girl to join me on my way to Jaipur and Agra.Natacha is one of those few people whose presence makes the sun shine brighter on me. So there's no need to explain that I had a nice time. I was fascinated to see how popular she became there. I was glad for her and couldn't help feeling some sorrow knowing that she was to leave soon. She belongs to Behror and Behror belong to her and I was a lucky witness :-)
I couldn't find any travel-mate so I set sail on my own towards Jaipur. I must admit that I felt a bit nervous while sitting on the bus alone heading somewhere I had never been before without any plans. But I felt satisfied with my freedom.
After getting off hired a rickshaw driver to take me to a simple hotel, then to an other (I did not like the first one) and I also agreed with him that he would be my driver in Jaipur. So things were going well and I started to really enjoy the situation. I found a nice roof-top restaurant where I had my dinners and breakfasts and I was out during the day to see the Pink City as Jaipur nicknamed after the old city center where most of the houes painted pink.
The thing I liked the most in Jaipur is actually not in Jaipur, but really close and called Amber Fort, a stunning complex, all-built in white marble and red sandstone sitting on a hillside in a beautiful valley. I took an elephant to get up from the bottom of the valley and had a nice ride, thanks to Joe my 27 years old "taxi" . It was really a huge complex and took me hours to explore the most of it and I spent two more hours just sitting and enjoying the magnificinet view in a corner most tourists (many of them in big groups following thier guides as a flock, finishing the whole thing in one hour!) did not even reach. On the way down I went into some bargaining with the local vendors and got some nice silk paintings. I found my driver accompanied by three other guys who started to complain me
that I stayed too long and so that I had to pay extra. It is really funny how theses guys cooperate with each other just to get as much out of You as they can. I was a bit hungry and had seen the same performance too many times so started to shout at them so they rapidly evaporated to the blue sky.
On the next day I continued my journey to Agra where probably the most famous building of India was waiting for me: the TAJ MAHAL...
I couldn't find any travel-mate so I set sail on my own towards Jaipur. I must admit that I felt a bit nervous while sitting on the bus alone heading somewhere I had never been before without any plans. But I felt satisfied with my freedom.
After getting off hired a rickshaw driver to take me to a simple hotel, then to an other (I did not like the first one) and I also agreed with him that he would be my driver in Jaipur. So things were going well and I started to really enjoy the situation. I found a nice roof-top restaurant where I had my dinners and breakfasts and I was out during the day to see the Pink City as Jaipur nicknamed after the old city center where most of the houes painted pink.The thing I liked the most in Jaipur is actually not in Jaipur, but really close and called Amber Fort, a stunning complex, all-built in white marble and red sandstone sitting on a hillside in a beautiful valley. I took an elephant to get up from the bottom of the valley and had a nice ride, thanks to Joe my 27 years old "taxi" . It was really a huge complex and took me hours to explore the most of it and I spent two more hours just sitting and enjoying the magnificinet view in a corner most tourists (many of them in big groups following thier guides as a flock, finishing the whole thing in one hour!) did not even reach. On the way down I went into some bargaining with the local vendors and got some nice silk paintings. I found my driver accompanied by three other guys who started to complain me
that I stayed too long and so that I had to pay extra. It is really funny how theses guys cooperate with each other just to get as much out of You as they can. I was a bit hungry and had seen the same performance too many times so started to shout at them so they rapidly evaporated to the blue sky.On the next day I continued my journey to Agra where probably the most famous building of India was waiting for me: the TAJ MAHAL...
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