As I write, an enormous white cow just waddled past the internet cafe at our hotel in We arrived this afternoon after a six hour bus ride from Jaipur and we have already seen the Taj Mahal. From a distance that is. We have a brilliant view of the Taj Mahal from the roof top terrace of our hotel. I think it is the most beautiful building I have ever seen and could not stop staring at it (in between backgammon moves) as the sun set and it faded to silhouette. Tomorrow we will pay a proper visit. We also have tentative plans to wake up at sunset and watch the Taj come to life with the rising sun. It simply takes your breath away when you see it for the first time. A tourist sitting near us said to a friend of hers that she was a little bit disappointed with the Taj - I could have punched her! Seriously woman, you have got to be joking.
Anyway, I think Larna and I (or 'Lally' and 'Lava' as our bus tickets said - the guy at the ticket booth obviously had trouble reading Larna's handwriting on the ticket application form) are both getting a little bit tired of fellow tourists spouting on about all the places they have been or plan to go. It feels like some kind of competition. Today we were the only foreigners on the bus to
We spent just one day in Jaipur. We were taken around in an auto rickshaw and shown most of the major sights. The city is very chaotic, particurlarly having come from Pushkar, but I did love the "pink" hue of all the buildings. Our driver told us all the buildings in the old city can only be painted that specific colour. There were also lots of Diwali lights on and the usual bangs of firecrackers. The crackers drove us nuts in Pushkar on the first night of Diwali. Some are so loud you could lose your hearing if you were right up close when they went off and most of the time its little kids lighting them and running away as they explode. So dangerous. I guess that is one of the more infuriating aspects of
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