Jaipur and Udaipur (8/9 - 8/14 -07)

Jaipur, also known as the Pink City, was another beautiful place that we visited. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and one of the better planned cities in India. We started the day with an elephant ride up to the Amber Fort, which was an experience by itself. Then we spent some time exploring Amber Fort, where I learned that the Fort was built with all of the best items from the whole word - even some crystal from Czechoslovakia. City Palace and the Jantar Mantar observatory were on our list after lunch. The observatory was especially interesting - many huge sun clocks with a precision of 2 minutes in local time! In Jaipur my first "stomach" problem started so unfortunately I couldn't enjoy the nice dinner with local dancing.
To cover the distance to Udaipur from Jaipur on India's roads would have taken us about 8 hours, so we decided to fly. We had about 3 days in the city of Udaipur. The first day was supposed to be free time, for the second and third we had planned seesighting, but unfortunately our guide compressed everything into the first day. I was overcomming my stomach problem so this didn't help either. We started with the temple Jagdish Mandir and the City Palace which is a favorite place for weddings, then we left the city and drove to Eklingji, a complex of temples, where we wern't alowed to take any photos. Then we drove a little bit further and visited an old tample - Nagda Temple. On the way back we stopped at Saheliyon-ki-Bari Gardens. After this "marathon" we found out that our guide secured two free days for himself ... Now we understood why he didn't let us stay anywhere for too long and his most often words were "come, come". Over the next two days, we visited the Monsoon palace, built on the hill but occupied just for a few months after they found that it was difficult to get water up there. Then we went back to City Palace and took a ride on the lake. This was the end of our sightseeing - now we were off to Kolkata and Subby's wedding.

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Jaipur, ktery je znam take pod nazvem Ruzove mesto, byl dalsi zajimavou zastavkou. Jaipur je hlavnim mestem Rajasthanu a jednim z nejlepe planovanym mestem v Indii. Den jsme zacali vyjizdkou na slonovi k pevnosti Amber, coz byl zazitek sam o sobe. Pote jsem stravili najaky cas prochazenim pevnosti, kde jsem se take dozvedela, ze ke stavbe bylo pouzito jen to nejlepsi z celeho sveta - dokonce i sklo z Ceskoslovenska (pan rikal z Ceskoslovenska, ale v dobe vzniku pevnosti Ceskoslovensko jeste neexistovalo...). Mestsky palac a observator Jantar Mantar byly na rade po obede. Observator byla velice zajimava, hlavne pro mnoho velkych slunecnich hodin, ktere ukazovaly mistni cas s presnosti na 2 minuty! V Jaipuru jsem zacala mit prvni "strevni" problemy a tak jsem si bohuzel nemohla poradne vychutnat veceri v restaraci kde nam k tomu i pekne tancovali.
Cesta z Jaipuru do Udaipuru by nam trvala na indickych cestach asi 8 hodin a tak jsme se radeji rozhodli letet. Meli jsem 3 dny na Udaipur. Prvni den melo byt volno, druhy a treti den pak byly planovane prohlidky mesta a okoli. Nas pruvodce ale bohuzel stlacil vse do prvniho dne. Ja jsem navic jeste prechazela "strevni" problemy, coz na veci nepridalo. Zacali jsme v chramu Jagdish Mandir a pak jsme sli do mestskeho palace, ktery je oblibenym mistem pro svatby. Pote jsem vyjeli z mesta do chramu Eklingji, coz byl komplex chramu, kde jsem ani nemohli fotit. Pro fotky jsem si zajeli jeste kousek dal do stareho nepouzivaneho chramu - Nagda Temple. Po ceste zpet jsem se zastavili v zahradach Saheliyon-ki-Bari. Po tomto maratonu jsem zjistili, ze si nas pruvodce zajistil dva dny volna.... To uz jsme pochopili proc nas nenechal postat na jednom miste moc dlouho a jeho nejpouzivanejsi slova byla "podte, podte". Dalsi dva dny jsem navstivili Monsunovy palac, postaveny na kopci ale pouzivany jen par mesicu, protoze bylo tezke palac zasobovat vodou. Vratili jsme se take zpet do Mestskeho palace a projeli jsem se na jezere. To byl konec prvni casti naseho indickeho vyletu, nasledovala pak uz "jen" Subbyho svatba v Indii.


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