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| Breakfast
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| Veggie pakora we had for breakfast. They were sad, having nothing
really in them. Two had cheese.
| French toast that J had. They were somewhat Indian style. They
weren't as good as at Chokola in Delhi.
| Soup. Eh. It tasted canned.
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| City Palace
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| One building in the City Palace complex.
| An uglier view of the same building.
| One fancy gate.
| A pretty, vibrant arcade. If you look closely, you can see the giant
silver urns supposedly used to transport holy water from the Ganges to
England.
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| A panorama of the courtyard with the aforementioned arcade.
| Part of the City Palace that is still used as a private residence for
the former ruling family.
| Another view of the private residence.
| J and I and two attendants by the entrance to one of the complex's museums.
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Ibid.
The three of us, plus two.
The attendants asked us for
a tip after taking this picture. We had, however, noticed on a sign up
to the museum's entrance the admonition to not tip the guards. Hence,
we declined to tip them.
| The famous peacock gate. The picture looks much better when viewed
closely.
No, I don't know who the person in the picture is; he
simply happened to be walking through the gate when I took the picture.
| Another gate in the same courtyard.
| The third gate in the same courtyard.
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| The fourth gate, along with a pretty picture of yours truly. I even
match the gate.
| Ibid.
I look tired in this shot.
| Ibid, with a shorter zoom to capture the arcade above the gate.
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| Hawa Mahal (Wind Palace)
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The Palace of Wind apparently needs a lot of support.
View the
full-sized image to see the facade's details.
| I like the back of Hawa Mahal more than the front.
| A detailed description of the Hawa Mahal.
| The ruddy glow of the Hawa Mahal and a nearby building.
One of
the main forts surrounding the city is in the distance.
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| The view from the top of the Hawa Mahal toward one of the larger
intersections in Jaipur.
| The lattice screens that everyone makes a big deal about.
| More lattice screens.
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| Late Afternoon Travel
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| Elephants marched by. J and N pointed them out in time
for me to snap a picture. Thanks!
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| Dinner at Natraj Restaurant
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The restaurant where we had dinner. It's across the street from
Lassiwalla.
I took this picture the following day.
| I took a picture of the napkins thinking the Indian government's
department of tourism had mis-printed the spelling of napkin on it.
Really, namkin is just an alternate spelling of namkeen, which is a
type of Indian sweet.
| A chutney, some red onions, and a dipping sauce for some chapati.
| "Bomb curry:" a chunk composed of potatoes, peas, butter, chilies, more
butter, carrots, and butter. My favorite of our three dishes.
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| A closer (and sadly darker) view of the bomb curry after it'd been
half-eaten. When I said there was a lot of butter in it, I meant it.
You can see one visible chunk in this picture.
| Stuffed tomatoes. These had a similar inside as the bomb curry.
J said the curry didn't go / wasn't good. I thought it was roughly
decent.
N thought the stuffed tomatoes and the bomb curry were equally good.
| Dal makhani. Not very good; certainly not as good as LMB's.
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