Jaipur & Udaipur - State of Rajasthan, India

Jaipur & Udaipur - State of Rajasthan, India

We arrived in Jaipur in the evening, still super excited about our fantastic luck with the tigers.  Because we wanted to fit a lot of India into the time we had before being back in Delhi, our itinerary didn't leave much time for relaxing.  We woke up in the morning and began our sightseeing tour of Jaipur, a very remarkable city.  It is commonly referred to as the Pink city, due to still-on-the-books laws that require the old city to be painted in the same shade of pink.  This is due to the pink sandstone that was originally used on many of the forts and palaces in the region.

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