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Jaipur Travel specialists for Rajasthan   2-5 days   Notes
Day 1
We started the day with a drive through the walled Pink City - it was painted pink in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1876 - to the City Palace complex. It includes the Sawai Mansingh Museum with its excellent collections of rare manuscripts and miniature paintings, Mubarak Mahal and the armoury.

Two things caught my attention in particular. One, the massive robes of a maharaja who was said to have been 6’-6" tall, 4’ wide and weighed over 250 kgs (500 pounds).

And, the enormous 5’ high solid-silver urns that another maharaja had got made to carry the sacred Ganges water with him on his trip to England. Ahem, I wonder whether he got them filled with Scotch on his way back home :)
 
Silver Urn - Click to enlarge  
Incidentally, these urns are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest silver objects in the world. As you can see from this sampling on the left. Do click to enlarge it.
 
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Outside the palace, I set right the time on my modern wrist-watch with the centuries-old world’s largest sun dial at Jantar Mantar. Jesus, these guys were more advanced in those days than we are today!
Jantar Mantar - Click to enlarge Jantar Mantar
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In the afternoon, we had a sumptuous North Indian lunch at Laxmi Misthan Bhandar in the chaotic Johri Bazaar. The dahivadas were mouthwatering! It seems that the locals are extremely fond of sweets. There are a variety of sweets for different festivals and seasons. The special ones include Mishri-mawa, Fini, Ghevar, Rasmalai and of course Laddoos.
Kundan Jewellery - Click to enlarge  
Johri Bazaar literally means Jeweller’s market. I quickly got my wife out of the market before she got me bankrupt, buying some of the exquisite gold and kundan-meena jewellery, that Jaipur is internationally famous for.
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Rajasthan Diary
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