Jaipur, India

The same day we arrived back in Delhi after the tour we got a train in the afternoon to Jaipur. In the station waiting for the train Mat saw a little girl about 4 years old looking at us so he waved her and her parents ushered her over to us. We gave her some sweets then she went to get her train. Can you believe it that when we got on the train which was about 20 carriages long not only were they in the same carriage they were in the next seats! The girl and her sister kept running up to us and smiling. I did some origami figures for them and their dad took a photo of me with them.

Jaipur is the nicest citywe visited in India. The hotel we stayed in was basic but had lovely grounds with peacocks and monkeys. Ruth dragged me to the city palace which I wasn’t really bothered about going to, it took some time to find our way into the pink city but when we got in there it was worth it. The city palace it owned by the Maharaja, probably the most memorable thing we saw there were 2 large silver urns. They are the largest silver objects in the world and can hold 4000 litres each. They were used by a previous Marharaja when he visited England for a Coronation of one of our Kings, as he didn’t trust British water so he had it filled with water from the Ganges.