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Travel stories from Jaipur

Collection of 20 travel stories from Jaipur, India. Written by your friends on the road.

Traveler Gntravln

The Golden Triangle
2009-08-31, Jaipur, India. By: Gntravln

Hi everyone! We are now in Jaipur with only three days left in India! After our 14 hour coach ride from Manali we stopped in Dehli for a McDonalds breakfast and then got in our hired bus for a 7 ho...

 
Traveler ningning88

jaipur
2008-06-14, Jaipur, India. By: ningning88

We are currently in Jaipur. It took us around 7-8 hours to get here by bus. We had to take back-roads because there is political unrest in Rajastan. (Something about the caste system). The main highwa...

 
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Roasting in Rajasthan
2007-05-08, Jaipur, India. By: mashman

Trekking during a bad Nepali winter and crossing China without a guide book, two rather poorly thought out ideas. Touring round Rajasthan in the hot season now perhaps tops this list. As my flight f...

 
Traveler aw80me

India Update - Jaipur, Jodhpur, & Ajmer
2007-05-06, Jaipur, India. By: aw80me

**Reminder: This was written in a country where it is not appropriate to use certain words.** We were truly able to experience and take part in Indian culture. From Punjabis (women's dress- pan...

 
Traveler chrisrak

In Jaipur
2006-02-13, Jaipur, India. By: chrisrak

We had a couple of days in Jaipur to visit the Amber Fort and other attractions. We almost went to a Bollywood film but the tickets had all sold out so we hailed a motor rickshaw and managed to squee...

 
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Jaipur Pictures
2001-07-01, Jaipur, India. By: katyliz

Some pictures from the "Pink City". Jaipur was dressed in pink in 1876 to welcome Prince Albert and Queen Elizabeth II - and the name has stuck since.

 
Traveler kfisher

Look out for the cow
2006-09-24, Jaipur, India. By: kfisher

Imagine being on a rollercoster playing Turismo 3000 on your x-box. That's what driving in India feels like. The rules of the road in India are dramatically different than the rules at home. To begin ...

 
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Monkeys and elephants
2006-08-12, Jaipur, India. By: tash3008

Off to Agra at 6 tomorrow morning to see the Taj Mahal so thought I'd write a quick entry before we left as a good internet connection is hard to find!! We got ourselves a tour guide on our first day ...

 
Traveler gmatero

Lesson #3: A Fathers Love for His Son (for his Children)
2006-04-14, Jaipur, India. By: gmatero

Some people might find this one hard to swallow and even hard to understand. Some might have different views on it, but this is the revelation I got while praying at Jaigarh Fort on Good Friday. D...

 
Traveler gmatero

India
2006-04-29, Jaipur, India. By: gmatero

Well....what can I say about India? CRAZY? CHAOTIC? CHALLENGING? All of the above, actually. Wow....where do I start. I didn't know what to expect other than something totally different. We met our...

 
Traveler seta76

Going Bollywood
2004-11-07, Jaipur, India. By: seta76

Going to India and not seeing a bollywood film...is like going to paris and not seeing the Eifel tower. So we took a little trip to McDonalds...and yes after like 5 years of not eating there...i did!...

 
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Jaipur
2003-02-05, Jaipur, India. By: kyt

Jaipur - City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Amber Palace & Jaigarh Fort

 
Traveler lomotravel

pink city...jaipur
2001-11-21, jaipur, India. By: lomotravel

this was my second visit to jaipur, the first one being in 1993. not much had changed, we stayed at the same guest house, had excellent food, walked with other travellers to the beer store at night an...

 
Traveler cpeely

Bollywood
2001-10-18, Jaipur, India. By: cpeely

Okay so I'm presuming that you know that this means... if you don't it means a Chaucer style Movie that has Indian Characters. Jefferey Chaucer was really the inventor of what we call the modern play...

 
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Test
2001-10-17, Jaipur, India. By: cpeely

I'll tell you.. one of the craziest nights of your life.. with tons of laughter.. and I wasn't even one of the people partaking. So after a day of walking around Jaipur, mainly looking for banks an...

 
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In the province of Palaces
2001-10-17, Jaipur, India. By: cpeely

Aside from being a contrast in landscape, it's also a contrast in people. We have left behing Utter Pradesh and come over the border into Rajestan. We are staying at a place that when we arrived we ...

 
Traveler nsuffield

Dosa Confusion
2001-09-23, Jaipur, India. By: nsuffield

Had a dosa for lunch after being recommended it by some chap we met the previous day. The waiter brought the huge flat fried thing and two little dishes .... unfortunately he negated to include the in...

 
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Having your post measured for it's suit
2001-09-22, Jaipur, India. By: nsuffield

Went to the post office to send the bed cover back to the UK. Not something to be hurried, rather savoured I think! First you have to get your parcel it’s own tailored little jacket. No, I mean quite ...

 
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Sparkley Bed Covers
2001-09-21, Jaipur, India. By: nsuffield

Had a look at the palace, observatory, and the ‘Tiger Fort’ (nice and quiet). Our guide took us to yet another textile shop where Andrea tried a sari on. Bambooosled into buying a bed cover. (Actually...

 
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Film Stars
2001-09-20, Jaipur, India. By: nsuffield

Another 5 hour journey of weaving, beeping, smelling, sweating and full on “pump it up’ in your face Hindi pop (intermingled with a bit of the Venga Boys … big stars here apparently!) brought us to Ja...

 


 
 

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