Jaipur Sights & Stories...
The Lal Maas lived up to all the hype. After indulging in gluttony, all thanks to the hospitality of the Rajputs, I figured I'd best venture out and get a little exercise the next day.
Jaipur is like a 5 star hotel buffet - much to choose from. I chose to venture out to The Albert Hall Museum. What a very impressive building it is. The drive up and approach to it is even wow! So very pretty I couldn't stop clicking it from all angles. It has some very interesting things inside like an over huge sitar, intricately carved furniture and an elaborate collection of chillams. If only they had a store selling them with their necessary accompaniments. I've put that down in the suggestion box, let's see what comes of it.
I moved on towards Hawa Mahal, clueless about what awaited me. Talk about love! Talk about a connection! Once again I found myself in a trance, as I walked ever so slowly through the entire Palace. I listened to things over and over again on the excellent audio guide, not just hearing and visualizing what went on in each of the rooms I was standing in but I literally felt like I was there - transported back to 1799, hearing the sounds of girls running past with their payals (silver anklets) echoing behind them, chuckling and giggling with other ladies in pardah (face cover) looking out of one of the 953 'honeycomb jharokhas' (windows) from where the wind kissed my lips. Bless you Lal Chand Ustad for designing this Palace of Winds so beautifully for Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh and us ladies.
One thing about traveling here in peak heat season, you get every place to yourself, it's peaceful with no rush, no queues, no photo bombers! When I get to experience places like this - well kept, clean, organised, it makes me fall deeper in love with my country, makes me so proud to be an Indian - knowing this culture, heritage, history is somewhere, somehow a part of me. With that, I'd also like to say, maintenance is key. And every place I'd been to thus far had been extremely well maintained. If only we could get the rest of the country to follow suit.
Regardless, Jaipur did a great job maintaing me, my calm, my balance, my happiness. Gems, food, bikes and most of all people still await. Oh these roots of love, even if I try with all my might to resist, I can't seem to stop them from growing...
The Lal Maas lived up to all the hype. After indulging in gluttony, all thanks to the hospitality of the Rajputs, I figured I'd best venture out and get a little exercise the next day.
Jaipur is like a 5 star hotel buffet - much to choose from. I chose to venture out to The Albert Hall Museum. What a very impressive building it is. The drive up and approach to it is even wow! So very pretty I couldn't stop clicking it from all angles. It has some very interesting things inside like an over huge sitar, intricately carved furniture and an elaborate collection of chillams. If only they had a store selling them with their necessary accompaniments. I've put that down in the suggestion box, let's see what comes of it.
I moved on towards Hawa Mahal, clueless about what awaited me. Talk about love! Talk about a connection! Once again I found myself in a trance, as I walked ever so slowly through the entire Palace. I listened to things over and over again on the excellent audio guide, not just hearing and visualizing what went on in each of the rooms I was standing in but I literally felt like I was there - transported back to 1799, hearing the sounds of girls running past with their payals (silver anklets) echoing behind them, chuckling and giggling with other ladies in pardah (face cover) looking out of one of the 953 'honeycomb jharokhas' (windows) from where the wind kissed my lips. Bless you Lal Chand Ustad for designing this Palace of Winds so beautifully for Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh and us ladies.
One thing about traveling here in peak heat season, you get every place to yourself, it's peaceful with no rush, no queues, no photo bombers! When I get to experience places like this - well kept, clean, organised, it makes me fall deeper in love with my country, makes me so proud to be an Indian - knowing this culture, heritage, history is somewhere, somehow a part of me. With that, I'd also like to say, maintenance is key. And every place I'd been to thus far had been extremely well maintained. If only we could get the rest of the country to follow suit.
Regardless, Jaipur did a great job maintaing me, my calm, my balance, my happiness. Gems, food, bikes and most of all people still await. Oh these roots of love, even if I try with all my might to resist, I can't seem to stop them from growing...
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| The road leading to The Albert Hall Museum |
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| The Magnificent Exterior of The Albert Hall Museum |
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| Very Beautiful Interiors too! |
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| One of the many paintings that adorn the walls... |
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| For those that didn't believe me, behold... |
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| Paradise!!! :D |
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| Gorgeous Carved Pieces, would've liked to own them all! |
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| How many people do you think it took to play this?? |
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| Welcome to my ever so beautiful home aka Hawa Mahal |
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| Main Courtyard |
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| Cool how they played with mirrors and colors to bring in color, shade and maximize light in the daylight and candle light at night. |
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| Soaking it all in with some sunshine! |
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| The smitten kitten chillin! |
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| Perspective - lines and angles |
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| The art of clicking selfies! |
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| Up above the world so high! |
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| See Jantar Mantar?? |
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| The watchman insisted on clicking this picture for me. Ha! |
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| I'd like to think I'm not fat but I had to walk through sideways. Talk about narrow escapes! |
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| View from the highest point (you can see the City Palace from here) |
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| Looking out at 'my' ever pretty in pink city |
