India Trip: Jaipur Journal in 30 seconds

A River Drives through it. traffic unlike anything you can imagine, flowing all in one motion, no one stops, ]no one bumps, everyone honks, no intersections, no lights, a random of rickshaws, a Mosaic of motorcycles, a waste of cars all getting as close to each other as possible to keep things moving. The only rules, watch each other and stay moving. After you get used to it, it is the only way to travel.
New Friend Harish takes us to "lac" --remember that from Nigel's tour? -- shop and bangles are made fr Kalli. go to village textiles with Harish and buy fabrics and shirts and suits and scarves. Best deal? who knows? it was fun and Harish treats us like royalty -- drives us all over town. takes us to Raj Mandir , the biggest Bollywood cinema in INDIA where we see classic Bollywood movie. Hindi? no matter... not too hard to figure out.
Reid is sick first day, Greg is sick all that night, hits the Cipro and pulls out of it. Kalli sick next day from malaria pills. Margo stops taking the pills and is our guinea pig...
Jantar Mantar astronomy park is fantastic, built in 1738 and tells time to within 2 seconds by sundial, plots zodiac, angle of sun, location of stars, eclipses, monsoons, weddings.
Two prices in Jaipiur -- 1) Don't Worry. 2) No Problem
Elephants at work, wind palace for the harem to peel out onto the street, spice shop slipper shop incense shop. Reid riding on back of Harish's cycle thru mad traffic. Ayuvedic massage.
Jaipur -- we love it