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The real, original Lassiwalla is on the left of this picture, just to
the right of the Vodafone sign. The others are fakes ones that sprung
up to take advantage of its success, imprecise or lazy or lost tourists,
and lack of enforcement of whatever trademark laws exist.
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picture was taken the previous day when we attempted to visit Lassiwalla
and found it sold out.
| My lassi, served in a clay cup. (Disposable and biodegradable!)
| A samosa covered with chole purchased from the fake Lassiwalla to the
far right in the penultimate picture. It was spicy and quite good.
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| Jantar Mantar
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| A panorama of Jantar Mantar. View the full-sized image to get a taste
of diversity of angular and curved astronomical devices. Many of the
objects pictured therein are photographed up close in later pictures;
this panorama is intended to (and does) give the sense of the place.
| A different perspective of Jantar Mantar.
| A large gnomon and its lined enclosure probably allow quite precise
measures of times, day, and season.
| A hemispherical bowl, with markings, used to track heavenly bodies.
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| An equinoctial sundial.
| An explanation of how the previously photographed equinoctial sundial
works. The builders had to know, explicitly or implicitly, the latitude
of their location!
| A different implementation of a equinoctial sundial.
| An explanation of the design for this implementation of a equinoctial
sundial.
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| Jantar Mantar has twelve specialized devices, each only used during certain
times of the year. I took pictures of a few of them.
| The Virgo device.
I'm a virgo.
Yes, it was blindingly sunny this day.
| I think this is the Virgo device from the other side.
| A huge (and apparently unstable) structure of a design we saw many times
throughout Jantar Mantar, most recently shown in the Virgo picture. Its
large size naturally makes it more accurate than smaller versions.
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| A hemispheric bowl with cutouts, used for close monitoring of the sun's
position.
| A good explanation of how the aforementioned hemispheric sun tracker
works.
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| Elsewhere
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| Old Town's walls are one of the reasons that Jaipur is sometimes referred
to as the "pink city."
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| Lunch at Surya Mahal
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Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the outside of the restaurant.
| A quick pan of Surya Mahal's dining room, mostly to show the abstract
art decorating the walls. We didn't see much art like this in India.
| Manchurian with vegetable balls.
From reading web pages, I'm
led to believe Manchurian roughly implies a "sweet and salty brown
sauce."
| Chow mein with baby corn. Good. Nicely spiced.
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| Mattar mushroom. Good. Has a kick.
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| Monkey Temple (Galwar Bagh)
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| The first of many pictures of monkeys. Theese sat atop a luminous
building.
| Monkeys' behinds.
| Monkeys enjoy the view of Jaipur. Some groom each other.
| A close-up of a monkey, sadly fuzzy.
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| More monkeys.
| If you look closely, it appears that the small monkey is sticking out
his tongue.
| The part of Jaipur closest to the monkey temple.
| Too bad it was late in the day. With light fading, I had to use slower
shutter speeds--I didn't know how the monkeys would react to a
flash--and thus got slightly fuzzy pictures like this one.
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