The highlight of our time in Jaipur was our trip to Amber Fort. It was built up on a hill near Jaipur in the 1590s, and the view is beautiful. Some of the surrounding hills have a wall along the crest, and it looks a little like the Great Wall of China, which is funny. It’s really hard to describe these places. You’ll have to go there too see for yourself ;-).
There are lots of other things to see in Jaipur too. Jaipur is known as the pink city because the buildings in the walled city are painted pink. We went to the Jantar Mantar; it’s an astronomical observatory built around 1730 with 18 huge stone instruments. It was fun to figure out what they all measured, and one looked very similar to Stonehenge.
We also went to the Hawa Mahal, which was built so that women could watch what was going on in the street from behind screens without being seen.
A couple of times we let the rickshaw drivers talk us into going to places that we hadn’t heard of before. One of the places we went was called the monkey temple. We walked up a big hill to the temple and when we got to the top there were monkeys all over the place. Some Indian people fed them bags of food; we had some peanuts to feed them too. My mom went first and they took the nuts out of her hand very gently. I’m not sure how I feel about feeding wild animals, but I did it in the end and it was really cute.
While we were in Jaipur we also felt my second earthquake this year. The first was when I was in Belize in May; we felt a 7.1 earthquake in Honduras. Then in the early morning on 23 October we felt a 6.2 earthquake in Afghanistan.
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