A bit of a break from culture, and a welcome return of the sun.
Great pictures. We had a guide with a telescope (and an ability to spot many birds that we couldn’t), and the pictures came from putting the phone camera through that.
The rest of the day was a bit of a write-off. Really not helped by the motorway tolls.
It is a long drive to Jaipur on a decent toll motorway. The problem came with the recently introduced speedy automatic ticket. Essentially it is neither. Our driver basically had a 15minute shouting match while they tried (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) to get a hand-held reader to scan the card. At the last booth, there were 9 of them failing miserably! So by the 4th time we had wasted about an hour. You either get fed up or just accept.
The motorway was interesting. They drive on the left, the same as us. On a dual carriageway the right hand lane is for normal speeds, especially lorries, buses and cars. The left hand lane is for the very slow – tuk tuks, mopeds, pedestrians, cattle and so on – and the very fast for overtaking the lorries and so on. There is therefore a lot of weaving about and tight squeezes.
And finally a somewhat bizarre evening with the hotel owners, their parents, a Chinese couple, a cat and quite a lot of rum. No idea what we talked about but it was fun.