The Pink City - Jaipur

It was time for another road trip. This time, Megan, Louise, Cindy, Mollie, and I took to the Pink City in Rajasthan - Jaipur. There has been an interesting past month or so in Jaipur with the terrorist bombings and Gujjar protests paralyzing the transportation networks in Rajasthan, but everything seems to have cleared and I think everyone was in the mood for an easy weekend trip.

It takes about 4 hours to drive to Jaipur. We rocked the site seeing on Saturday seeing several forts, a stop at the lassiwalla for an awesome sweet lassi, and the Johari Bazaar for some shoping. Jaipur has a really interesting past which is not as easily illustrated in most Indian cities. The walls of

the Amer Fort are massive, and althoug not to the scale of the Great Wall of China, still a true sight. After dropping some money in the market and our lassi, we decided to head to Choki Dhani, the theme park like tourist attraction with elephant rides, authentic Rajisthani food, henna, and magicians. It was actually really nice and let us see all kinds of shows and performances.

Devender realizing that we ran out of gas!

Of course no trip is complete without at least some sort of adventure. We were heading back to Gurgaon on Sunday night, and Mollie was scheduled to take a flight out of Jaipur to Hyderabad. Shortly after dropping her off and making out way to the highway, she called with the news that her flight was cancelled and it was not going to be possible to get into Hyderabad that night. We turned around, picked her up, and decided it'd be best for her to return to Delhi with us and grab a flight the next day.

Little did we know, we were running on fumes in the Toyota Innova. One minute were passing through really interesting parts of Jaipur with mixes of animals (monkeys, dogs, cows, goats...you name it, we saw it) and naked children, the next minute we're on the open road with Devender realizing we were out of gas! The engine died and he couldn't restart the car. The video above is the moment when we couldn't control the laugher and the car was coming to a stand still. Luckily, our Jaipur tourguide, Raghu, came to the rescue and towed the car with a Jeep and a metal string that looked about as thick as a hanger. We made it back about 6 hours later, but surely had moments to keep us on our toes.

Blog Photos - Here's a link to my photos of Jaipur in Google Photos (also links from the slide show below).