Round-up of our luxury week 28th - 4th June 2012
Our villa and private pool
So between the both of us we spent a grand total of 3.5 days sick this week, it sucks but it could have been worse although I did find myself wishing I was at home in my own bed after about 48hours of being unwell! All good again now though.
The powers that be were definitely against us getting out and sightseeing in Jaipur this week between a national strike (against fuel price increases) where EVERYTHING closed (from global companies like McDonalds to the local bazaars) and trying to battle an Indian heatwave!
So we did manage to see some of Jaipur but it was more of a drive-by sightseeing session where I admired the palaces and buildings from the window of the (air conditioned) car and Ronan hopped out to take a quick photo! A lot of Jaipur sights are just the facades, you can't go into them so I didn't feel too bad! For anyone who knows/cares we did go into the City Palace and Amber Fort, they were fine and we would definitely have appreciated them better on a cooler day! Ronan had been hoping to try out his haggling skills so wasn't overly happy that everything was closed - though we did stop at one stall on the way back to the villa to buy two hats to keep the sun off our heads for the elephant ride the next day so at least Ronan got to do some bargaining with a local - though the hats he came back with were a bit chav-ey so thank God we were given the turbans the morning after as they were modern fashion in comparison!!
The highlight of our week though had to be the elephant experience, painting an elephant's trunk with an Ireland flag is definitely up there with one of the more random experiences of my life but there you go! I reckon 'painting an elephant' will become the new 'swimming with dolphins' and everyone will want to do it.
On our 2nd day in Jaipur the national strike had finished and we took a walk through some of Jaipur's many bazaars - however this depicted more like a running scene from Scooby Doo as the shops kept repeating themselves - it was rugs, jewelry, clay pots, T-shirts - rugs, jewelry, clay pots, T-shirts - rugs, jewelry, clay pots, T-shirts... so needless to say we didn't do any shopping there!!
We also ended up experiencing an Indian 'queuing' system in a supermarket where the two polite, Irish eegits stood for about 15mins trying to pay for few bits like water and juice while everyone else piled into the mass of people with just one shop assistant serving (which resembled something like.............). Eventually the security guard either took pity on us or wanted to win the bet for how long we would stand there doing nothing (something like guess length of speeches at a wedding I'd imagine) and dragged us up through the mob to the counter. The Indians - no respect for a queue...
Anyways that's a few of the highlights, gotta run. What have you all being up to??
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