Departing Jaipur for the last time it was another road trip. I headed toward the middle of the bus and settled in. I had just downloaded a new book to my iPad which I finished on the way and read bits of three others. The views along the way were similar until we approached our hotel
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- hotel
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- detail
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- room
which doesn’t really resemble the tents where I have stayed before nature drives and safaris in the past.
The Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site with only a couple hundred steps up. There are temples here with active worshipers and a few scattered individuals living here and there with barely constructed shelters.
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- the entry
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- a view of the lake
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- toilet (not quite free hanging)
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- Muslim temple
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- one of many other temples
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- on going restoration
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- elephants not welcome
There are monkeys at the fort, which have no shame whats so every and steal every and anything. Along with ground squirrels, the donkeys used for ferrying objects up the steps and the ubiquitous cow.
birds both there and along the way
and our first sighting of “wild animals”
