5 hour bus ride from Jaipur to a small village called Karauli in Rajasthan, where we stayed at King Krishna Pal's guesthouse which is part of his palace. It was amazing. Our part of the building was built in 1932 and called Bhanwar Vilas.
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| Front of King's Guesthouse |
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| Courtyard |
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| Refreshing pool filled up just for us! |
While we had lunch they starting filling up the pool. It was so hot it the pool was a good refreshing way to spend the afternoon. (It was 37 degreesC). About 4:00 we took tuk-tuks to the Karauli Palace.
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| Sarah, Katie, Lucy, Marie and Tanya listening to Javed |
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| Sara and Jill |
The 600 year old city palace was Bukit in the 14th century. It has beautiful murals, stone carvings, classic paintings. It also has a famous temple called Madan Mohan ji temple, a popular pilgrimage site. We went in and witnessed a service.
Then we walked home though the very packed narrow streets of the town. Children were like running out of the woodwork coming to say hello. It became actually exhausting waving and saying hello to everyone. Javed had warned us at the beginning of the trip that Indians would stare at us, he was right but what a long way a smile goes.
We had dinner at the palace then hung out on the front porch as that was the only place with wifi!
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