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After 10 years we return to India to explore Rajasthan and cruise the Ganges. We then fly to Nepal for a new adventure; a place Tom has dreamed of travelling to. Finally we will complete this trip with
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    City palace

    October 28, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    The city palace is now a museum. One part of the museum has a fabric display. Along with old carpet, old fabrics, old dresses are even some old shirts. A display of what appears to be laundry. I am having some trouble feigning interest in this as our Jaipur guide drones on about the age and craftsmanship, threads off gold and silver. I can’t wait to leave. I don’t want to talk to Dianne about it either. Maybe she likes it.Read more

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    TaurusLeoSee the shadow - it tells you the time

    Jantar Mantar

    October 28, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    The city palace is co-located with the observatory. Here you find Sundials, and other means of tracking the heavens used in astrology and other predictions. The largest sundial is 90 feet tall and is accurate to within 2 seconds. Impressive!

    The Jantar Mantar is a collection of nineteen architectural astronomical instruments built by the Kachwaha Rajput king Sawai Jai Singh II, the founder of Jaipur.    Read more

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    Cruising the streets of Jaipur

    October 28, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Finally the City Palace is over and we are going on auto rickshaw. (Tuk Tuk). Our city guide is in some tough negotiations with the driver. It makes me happy to see someone else have to do the hard bargaining instead of me. We want to go to the spice market, but there are limited stores open today as it is a holiday. Diwali. A price is finally agreed upon and off we go again. There truly is a limited choice of spice merchants today. We found one. We are looking for potato spice, and of course this man has it. He assures us it is the real M’coy, or in Hindi, the real Lal Ghos.Read more

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    Our driver Hari Singh

    Travel day - leaving Jaipur

    October 29, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    Four am and we got up minutes before the alarm. The fireworks didn’t seem to go on as long last night as we were asleep by 10.

    A travel day! We are busy packing and weighing our luggage and carry on. Weight limits of 15kg and 7kg. We are close but the cameras we carry are a cause for concern. Satisfied we locked everything up. Breakfast is brought to our room, down we go to meet our driver Hari.

    There is lots to see driving through the streets of Jaipur at 5 in the morning. There are many decorations and lights for the last day of Diwali. You can hear the call to prayer over the loudspeakers. Random fires burning in on he streets, street vendors getting theirs carts; a few walking with purpose, cows randomly walking down the streets as they do. There is a surprising amount of traffic but for all intents and purpose Jaipur is asleep.

    We arrive at the airport and say goodbye to our driver, Hari. He has taken good care of us and our stuff.
    In we go, flight info in hand, first check stop ok, now X-ray check luggage and were tagged, now for the check in. Our turn bags on conveyer, tagged, boarding passes in hand. We are done! All the weighing and repacking worked! Piece of cake..now through security; men to the left, women to the right.

    Waiting at the boarding gate in a corner now, we see our travel companions Liz and Alan arrive with their boxed breakfast in hand. It’s is good to see familiar faces, and we catch up on each other’s experiences.

    So far we have had an easy time of it. Perfect Travels has provided us with a most excellent driver in using Hari Singh. Our welcome in Udaipur even though we were 5 hours late was well planned. We have been happy with our accommodations and our only complaint is our time in Jaipur. There was nobody to meet us at the hotel, and the following day tour, not as seamless as our previous experience. That said we give them 4 out of 5 stars. Pretty good.    Read more

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    Kolkata - emarkation

    October 29, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    After a 2 hour flight on IndiGo we arrive in Kolkata. Dianne and I are joining a group of travellers who have been touring India for 6 days. Liz and Alan were part of that group of 22. They introduce us all around. This next part of their tour, and now ours is a Ganges River cruise. They all seem to be nice folks. They look a lot like us, fair skinned and older than 60. We’ll see.

    For the first time on this trip, we are riding a bus. The streets of Kolkata are fairly narrow as is to be expected. We drive past our boat and try to find a place to turn to bus around. That is not an easy task. We need to disembark from the opposite side of the street, so we continue for another kilometre or so before there is an opportunity. The bus driver has a helper just for these situations. He jumps out, stops traffic in both directions, eventually, and we back into the street again, now going in the right direction.

    Our boat is in the middle of the river and we need a boat to get to the boat. Our number has swelled to 29. We all can fit on this small boat but they insist we wear life jackets for the short ride. Once on the Ganges River Cruiser, my impression is that it looks nicer from the inside than it does from outside.    Read more

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    Cruising the Ganges

    October 29, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    Welcome ceremony, safety briefing and we are on our way as we eat lunch. The rest of the day we cruise upstream and take in all the sights that both banks have to offer. We are a spectacle. People take out cellphones as we go by and take pictures and videos of our passing. I didn’t expect that.Read more

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    Kalna

    October 30, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    With our big boat anchored in the middle of the Ganges, we donned our life jackets and took the little boat to Kalna. A couple of interesting things here in that we took a rickshaw to the temple, through the streets of the village, which was an eye opener. The second being that one of the rickshaw drivers has a son who works for NASA. Education is valued here. This man’s son came first in all his classes and A level exams. He went on to university and continued to do well, getting at least 2 degrees and being noticed by the people from NASA. His father is illiterate. Sounds to me like a huge loss for India as a country.

    The first Temple is a round complex that doubles as an excellent pigeon hotel. We take off our shoes to enter. Another thing I notice is there is a Texas gate the entrance. There are no cows in the temple so I guess it works. Inside the temple, someone has made a cow dung sculpture to make up for the lack of bovine attendance.    Read more

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    Morning prayers

    October 30, 2019 in India ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    We went to our final temple in Kalna in time for morning prayers. There was a family there as well. The priest blessed us, threw holy water on us and said prayers. We all got a sandalwood paste placed on our foreheads. This temple is called Lalji Temple, it is the oldest temple being constructed in 1733.Read more

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