We arrived in Jaipur today after a long journey from ludhiana in the Punjab. Our dirver will be leaving us tommorrow - we had our first taste of having to buy train tickets today. Fun Fun. As Templer puts it - "its just hard". We've been so lucky to have the driver as we got a real taste of every day family life in India. We visited not only his reasonably wealthy relatives in Ludhiana, but also his determined widowed grandmother in a tiny village somewhere in the Punjab. She is over 90 and lives as you can imagine villagers have lived for hundreds of years. Her house was just like in all the books I've read - central courtyard, stone walls, fire oven...
In contrast, we are staying in another lovely hotel - must say we are not exactly roughing it!! Off to Amber Fort tomorrow.
Here are some photos.