jaipur

Last Monday night we boarded an overnight train headed to Jaipur, Rajasthan. We travelled there with the 2012 SummerLINK India team (you can read their blog here). The team arrived at the beginning of July and we have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them and hang out with them. You may remember we came to India last year with the 2011 SummerLINK India team, and on our mid summer excursion, we visited Udaipur. 

Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and is another of the painted cities... the pink city (though I think it looks kind of orangy).   

market shopping

One of the things that is different here is that a lot of the men have ear hair. Some of it is so long that it is quite impressive. While we were waiting at the City Palace, we saw this guard who had quite impressive ear hair. So Chad took a picture with him. I know that is awful, but this is probably one of those little details we would forget about India if we didn't have it documented. 

pure awesomeness

City Palace

getting henna done at the City Palace

all the girls... we have so enjoyed getting to know this team!

I finally bought some peacock feathers...they were fun to get home :)

Jal Mahal "water palace" sits in the middle of a lake... kind of like the one in Udaipur

Our auto drivers took us to where some elephants that work at the Amber Fort live. We spent a couple hours there on Wednesday afternoon. 

I love how people get chai to go and they put it in a bag. This little boy was pouring it for all the men at the elephant place.

team dinner at barbeque nation 

We boarded the night train Friday night to head home. The train station is probably one of my least favorite places to be, but I love traveling to new places so it is worth it. We watched hundreds of rats crawl around (I'm not exaggerating) while waiting for our train to arrive.