Last sight-seeing in Jaipur before exploring Rajasthan! (?)

YES!...

Yesterday I finished the last great landmarks of Jaipur so that I can now honistly say that this city has nothing really, really special anymore that I have not yet seen. Yesterday I went together with Mauro to the City Palace, the observatory, the tiger fort and the palace of the winds to go...sightseeing. The City Palace is the place were the current Raj of Jaipur is reciding. He is a kind of king of Rajasthan. His home is pretty impressive, and pretty big. Only part of it is however open to the public, and part of this part is open as a museum. So I have seen two gigantic silver mugs in which the king kept is water of the Ganges for when I went to ENgland. I have also seen the royal clothes, polo shirts, guns, paintings, carpets, books, elephant-carrages and a small miniature train of "the royal coach" (sorry dad, tried to take it but too many guards around me). It was pretty impressive, although I liked the palace of the winds more. Situated in the middle of the Pink City, this old but beautiful building once served the purpose as window for the Kings 300 wives. SInce they were not allowed to go outside the palace complex, but still wanted to see something of city life, the king built a house with a lot of windows. These look down on the busy streets of Jaipur..a pretty nice sight.

We also went to an observatory (where Mauro had to pay a 50 rupee fine because he was making pictures without a ticket that allowed him to take those pictures. All astronomical machines where pretty weird, and all of them served the purpose to determine the position of the stars and the heavenly bodies..and sometimes the time.

Finally we went up to the tiger fort to enjoy the sun set..and to get away from the hustle and noise of the pink city. It was a nice temperature, the sun went down slowly, and it was a great sight to see.

Ow yea, along the way I was almost but on the horns of a cow (I think it accidently moved its head like that to scare some flies), and Mauro got attacked by another (pregnant) cow. Seems the warm weather also makes these creatures a bit cranky some times.